Second Workshop on HPC Applications in Precision Medicine
Thursday, June 28, 2018
http://www.scworkshops.net/precision2018
As part of
ISC High Performance 2018
Frankfurt, Germany
Program Overview
High-performance computing has become integral to the future success of precision medicine. Catalyzed by the dramatic increase in the amount of data available through advanced next generation sequencing and advanced imaging techniques, new approaches are in development to address the complexities of understanding and modeling biology. When coupled with long-standing computational chemistry and biology techniques used in drug discovery, an exciting frontier emerges for innovation as the communities join. The use of deep learning to develop data driven models combined with exascale technologies to explore and validate models, adds an exciting dimension for the future of both HPC and precision medicine to impact and improve patient outcomes.
The HPC Applications in Precision Medicine workshop is bringing together the computational and life sciences communities to share experiences, examine current challenges, and explore future opportunities for applications of high-performance computing in precision medicine.
With input from last year’s workshop, the workshop this year brings a focus to the rapidly evolving data landscape in precision medicine HPC applications and the future for how data is transformed through technologies such as deep learning to support critical decisions.
The 2018 HPC Applications in Precision Medicine workshop also brings focus to driving and enabling capabilities in key areas of deep learning and artificial intelligence, cancer, and drug discovery with special sessions on the role of HPC in these areas.
Invited Presenters
David Brown – Head of Informatics Infrastructure, Genomics England Ltd (UK)
Dr. Scott Hammond – Strategic Director, Smarter Health, Center for Digital Health Innovation at University of California, San Francisco (USA)
Dr. Nick Hengartner – Group Leader of Theoretical Biology and Biophysics at Los Alamos National Laboratory (USA)
Dr. Rick Stevens – Associate Laboratory Director for Computing, Environment and Life Sciences, Argonne National Laboratory (USA)
Time: 9AM – 6PM
Room Location : Alabaster 1
Workshop Special Sessions – exploring current state and future opportunities in the following topic areas:
HPC Applications in Cancer
Deep Learning and AI Applications in Precision Medicine
HPC Applications in Drug Discovery
Call for Abstracts:
Providing increased opportunities for presentation and discussion from the community, the workshop is maintaining an open call for abstracts until May 21, 2018 for abbreviated presentations within the workshop. Submission details are below:
Important Dates:
Priority Consideration Abstract Submission Date: May 28, 2018
Last Date for Submission: June 07, 2018
Workshop: June 28, 2018
Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapm18
Details of call for Abstracts: https://nciphub.org/groups/precision2018/call_for_abstracts
Target Audience
The workshop is seeking scientists, developers, researchers, leaders and technologists across industry, academia and government with interests in advancing the frontiers of precision medicine, involving the broader role of high-performance computing. The workshop also draws individuals from the breadth of precision medicine application areas spanning research to clinical application in areas including drug discovery, preclinical validation, diagnostics, health monitoring, precision biomarker development, prevention and early detection, treatment determination and population studies, interested in the computational and data challenges and opportunities created in precision and predictive medicine.
Workshop Organizing Committee
Thomas Steinke – Zuse Institute Berlin
Sunita Chandrasekaran – University of Delaware
Patricia Kovatch – Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine
Eric Stahlberg – Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
The workshop organizing committee has established a growing program committee to support the organizers in developing the 2018 workshop program, including review and selection of submitted papers.
Workshop Program Committee
Guy Robison, Cancer Research University of Cambridge, UK
Bertil Schmidt, University of Mainz, Germany
Erin Crowgey, Nemours Children Hospital
Guido Juckeland, HZDR, Germany
Paul Macklin, Indiana University, USA
Jonathan Ozik, Argonne National Lab
Prasanna Balaprakash, Argonne National Lab
Kshitij Srivatsava, Oak Ridge National Lab
Fernanda Foertter, Nvidia
Dave Richards, Oak Ridge National Lab
Martin Herbordt, Boston University
Ted Slater, Cray