Digital You: The Virtual Future of Medicine

About the Event: 

We are delighted to announce that the American University of Armenia (AUA) Office of the President and the AUA Zaven P. & Sonia Akian College of Science and Engineering will be hosting a lecture on “Digital You: The Virtual Future of Medicine” featuring an esteemed guest, Dr. Peter Coveney, author of the book “Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionize Medicine and Change Your Life.” 

The concept of virtual humans is compelling, offering an in-silico environment known as a digital twin, where personalized medicine can be implemented, incorporating individual features from personal genomes to the anatomy of connected organ systems and beyond into human populations and clinical trials. These virtual humans will aid in medical and clinical treatment decisions, reduce the need for animal testing, and serve as personal avatars, guiding us in making informed healthcare and lifestyle choices.

Building virtual humans presents a multiscale challenge, requiring the integration of data and models across various levels, from molecular and subcellular scales to cells, tissues, and organs, and beyond addressing population health to epidemiological issues.

During the talk, Dr. Coveney will:

• discover recent breakthroughs in high-performance computing,
• make a comparison with other digital twin projects underway today,
• and highlight several biomedical issues being addressed based on various components of the future virtual human.

Mark your calendars to join the lecture on September 17, at 7:00pm, in room 414W, PAB, AUA.

Register here: https://forms.gle/soCXYUKcgZT1qfx3A

About the Speaker:

Dr. Peter Coveney is a Professor of Physical Chemistry, Honorary Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Centre for Computational Science (CCS), and Associate Director of the Advanced Research Computing Centre at University College London (UCL). He is also a Professor of Applied High Performance Computing at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a Professor Adjunct at Yale School of Medicine, Yale University. 

Dr. Coveney is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Member of Academia Europaea. Dr. Coveney has made outstanding contributions across a wide range of scientific and engineering fields, including physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, materials, computer science, high-performance computing, and biomedicine, much of it harnessing the power of supercomputing to conduct original research at unprecedented space and time scales. He has shown influential leadership across these fields, manifested through running multiple initiatives and multi-partner interdisciplinary grants in the UK, Europe, and the US.

Language: English