第一屆動態生醫指標暨轉譯醫學國際研討會(1st International Symposium on Dynamical Biomarkers for Translational Medicine)

第一屆動態生醫指標暨轉譯醫學國際研討會
民國百年四月十六、十七日 校內大講堂 國立中央大學(桃園縣中壢市中大路300號)

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” This could be the description of modern medicine today. On one hand, the technological advancements in biomedicine enable us to gather overwhelming amounts of information about our bodies, ranging from genomic and molecular information, all the way to images and physiological signals. On the other hand, the large amount of additional information does not seem to help us to curb the escalating health care costs we are facing.

One strategy to bring down the health care costs is by accelerating the translation of new knowledge from research laboratories to clinical practice, the so-called “translational medicine.” Successful implement of translational medicine may lead to many innovative interventions, and ways for early diagnosis of diseases. A promising, but less recognized direction for this translation is to extract dynamical features hidden in the signals collected by new technologies.

Life is a dynamical process. Thus, it is not surprising that disease processes alter important aspects of healthy dynamics. These changes, therefore, could serve as useful “dynamical signatures” of the underlying disease states. In recent years, significant progress has been made in decoding these dynamical patterns and using them as biomarkers. The key challenge is that the analytical tools developed for the purpose of measuring dynamical biomarkers have to be physically meaningful, mathematically rigorous, and clinically relevant. To meet this challenge, researchers in multiple disciplines, from mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, to biomedical sciences, have to work together. To this end, the National Science Council of Taiwan established a new International Research-Intensive Center of Excellence: Center for Dynamical Biomarkers and Translational Medicine. Whose mission is to explore this new research territory.

For this inaugural symposium, we bring leading interdisciplinary researchers together to discuss innovative approaches to utilize dynamical patterns in health and disease for better clinical care.

PROGRAM SPEAKERS
Gene Stanley Member, United States National Academy of Sciences (NAS)/Professor, Department of Physics, Boston University
Shih-Ann Chen Director of Cardiology Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital
Hoong-Chien Lee University Chair Professor of Biophysics/Head and Professor, Graduate Institute of Systems Biology and Bioinformatics
Norden E. Huang Member, National Academy of Engineering / Academician, Academia Sinica /Director, Research Center for Adaptive Data Analysis (RCADA)
Kun Hu Assistance Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH)/Harvard Medical School (HMS)
Albert C. C. Yang Attending Physician, Chu-Tung Veterans Hospital, Hinschu County/Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry, National Yang-Ming University
Chung-Kang Peng Co-director, Rey Institute at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)/Harvard Medical School (HMS)
Yi-Lwun Ho Director, Center for Heart Failure, National Taiwan University Hospital
Lian‐Yu Lin Attending physician, Cardiology, National Taiwan University Hospital
Bernard C. Jiang Vice President, Yuan Ze University/Chair Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering
Jiann-Shing Shieh Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering , Yuan Ze University
Lewis A. Lipsitz Director, Institute for Aging Research , professor/Harvard Medical School (HMS)
Peter Novak Professor, Department of Neurology, U. Mass Medical School
Hon-Man Liu Director of Neuroimaging Specialist, National Taiwan University Hospital
Vera Novak Associate Professor of Gerontology, SAFE lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)/Harvard Medical School (HMS)
Shuu-Jiun Wang Professor, Department of Neurology, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine; Deputy Head, Neurological Institute, Taipei Veterans General Hospital
Robert J. Thomas Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS)/Sleep medicine
Mu-Chun Su Head/Professor, Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University
Terry Bo-Jau Kuo Professor/Director, Institute of Brain Science, National Yang Ming University
Gloria Yeh Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (HMS)/Integrative medicine
SESSION CHAIR
Oscar K. Lee Professor, Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University (session 1)
Wen-Yih Chen Professor, Department of Chemical &Materials Engineering, National Central University (session 2)
Shou-Zen Fan Director of Anesthesiology, National Taiwan University Hospital (session 3)
Matthew Huei-Ming Ma Associated Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital (session4)
Shih-Jen Tsai Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital (session 5)
For this inaugural symposium, we bring leading interdisciplinary researchers together to discuss innovative approaches to utilize dynamical patterns in health and disease for better clinical care.