Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine

A scientific revolution is in the making. In a few years time, all known genetic risk factors for diseases could be routinely determined at birth. Using large-scale molecular interrogation methods, powered by mathematical and computer science advances, particular disease subtypes of a patient would be identified and the best available treatment for that disease subtype selected. Outcomes of patient tailored-treatments will be valuable for the development of new diagnostic approaches and for drug design that specifically target aberrant molecular pathways present in diseased cells with minimal interference on healthy ones. These are the promises of Personalized Information-based Medicine and this Centre aims at contributing in this area.

The core aim of research conducted by this centre is the delivery of "bench-to-bedside” research by combining the often disparate disciplines of bioinformatics, molecular and genetic analysis, clinical information and population data. The Centre for Bioinformatics, Biomarker Discovery & Information-Based Medicine (CIBM) aims at finding methodologies that will shorten the process of obtaining novel discoveries and use them to obtain distinctively better outcomes in clinical practice and translational individualised medicine.