Tuesday, February 4, 2020

4th IIC-OHS Colloquium on "Biomedical Data Sciences: New Name with New Opportunities for Change?" 7 February at IIC, New Delhi

4th IIC-Open Health Systems Colloquium on Biomedical Data Sciences: New Name with New Opportunities for Change? | 

Date: 07 February 2020 at 6:30 p.m.

Venue: IIC, New Delhi | Lecture Room-II Basement (Annexe)

Lead presentation by Prof. Philip E. Bourne, Stephenson Dean of the School of Data Science, Professor of Data Science & Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, USA

Discussants: Dr. Vijay Bhatkar, Architect of India's initiative in supercomputing and Chancellor, Nalanda University, Bihar; Dr. B. Jayaram, Professor Emeritus, Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi; Dr. Anand Deshpande, Founder, Chairman & Managing Director, Persistent Systems; and Dr. Jefferey Buchsbaum, Radiation Oncologist and Programme Director, Radiation Research Programme, National Cancer Institute, NIH, Bethesda
 
Chair: Dr. Renu Swarup, Secretary, Dept. of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science & Technology
 
Biomedicine, always at the forefront of open data aggregation and reuse, is now being influenced by other fields where the application of data science is rapidly expanding. What are other fields telling us and what do we, scientists, funders and governments need to do differently to instill a cultural change, which is never easy?

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