Data Science to Promote Precision Medicine

At a Glance

The Data Science to Promote Precision Medicine project will build a strong institutional data science core, with a focus on biomedical big data. This initiative will catalyze data-driven precision medicine research and translation to care at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH), to improve the health and well-being of Wisconsin residents, while strengthening the university’s role as a leader in precision medicine.

The Challenge

Although the UW School of Medicine and Public Health has built a strong foundation of an accessible data ecosystem and collaborative projects, opportunities exist for SMPH to fully realize the full potential of biomedical big data in a time- and cost-efficient way.

Project Goals

The overall goal of this project is to build upon the existing big data initiatives and expand the data science capabilities at SMPH to foster data-driven research and translation to care at UW–Madison and beyond. The specific aims are to:

1. Establish a Data Science Core and build capacity to provide big data analysis support and training to SMPH researchers
2. Develop and implement analytical pipelines enabling preclinical/clinical multi-omics data analysis
3. Build and deploy advanced integrative analytical pipelines, using clinical imaging data, to enable early disease detection and prediction of treatment outcomes