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8 Oct 2011

EU Scientists Developing Digital Patients for Personalised Medicines

The digital models will include a patient’s genetic and physiological make-up, using computing, IT storage, networking and modelling technologies.

A European Union-funded research project is developing computerised models of patients, with sufficient details to enable doctors to create tailored health treatments, promoting the development of personalised medicines.

 

Germany’s Max Planck Society is leading the €1.48m ITFOM (Information Technology Future of Medicine) project, working with 25 research institutes and industry groups from Europe and elsewhere.

 

The digital models will include a patient’s genetic and physiological make-up, using computing, IT storage, networking and modelling technologies.

 

According to the European Commission, the models will enable doctors to use a patient's individual genome to inform every state of diseas

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