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Digital Health

We help advance medical research by facilitating the use of HPC resources and building connections between medical and technical domains via networking events and training workshops.

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Overview

Computationally intensive research on health-related data could improve disease prevention and care. The possibilities for research of this type are expanding with increasing ability to measure and collect health-related data. Specific topics of research include:

  • Health data analytics: the use of routinely collected healthcare data to understand disease and plan treatment.
  • Drug discovery: development of new drugs in an efficient way, to reduce the financial and human burden of testing
  • Omics: exhaustive analysis of biological systems, aiming to build biological understanding systematically
  • Virtual Physiological Human
  • Connected health
Academic Theme Leads
The theme leads for each institution are:
  • Durham - Dr James Liley, Co-Director of the Durham Biostatistics Unit
  • Lancaster - Dr Claudio Fronterre, Lecturer in Biostatistics (Global Health), Faculty of Health and Medicine
  • Leeds - Dr Samuel Relton, Associate Professor of Health Data Science, School of Medicine
  • Liverpool -Position Vacant
  • Manchester - Dr David Jenkins, Lecturer (Health Data Science), Division of Informatics, Imaging & Data Sciences
  • Newcastle- Prof. Abi Durrant, Professor of Interaction Design, School of Computing
  • Sheffield - Dr. Andrew Narracott, Senior Lecturer, Department of Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease
  • York - Prof Mark Sujan, Chair in Safety Science, Department of Computer Science

Connect with researchers across the N8

You asked for a mechanism to talk directly with researchers across the N8. To facilitate this we have created a dedicated N8 CIR Slack workspace where you can share recent publications and ideas you would like to find new collaboration partners for, discuss upcoming funding calls and suggest meetings and sandpit events you'd like us to host. Join us by clicking the link below or find out more on our webpage.

Join the N8 CIR Slack workspace

If you are having trouble signing in, go to https://n8cir.slack.com/ and select the 'Create an account' link in the top right-hand corner using your university email account.

This workspace is only available to those currently working or researching at Durham University, Lancaster University, the University of Leeds, the University of Liverpool, the University of Manchester, Newcastle University, the University of Sheffield or the University of York.

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