Innovation for personalized healthcare
Research Theme Summary
The goal of medicine has consistently been to focus on the patient rather than merely the illness. The growing comprehension of individual variances in genetics, environment, and lifestyle is now enabling the tailoring of treatments for each individual patient. The progress in personalized medicine requires both biological research and innovative logistics to develop, package, and deliver a service to the healthcare system. By embracing a holistic and multidisciplinary strategy, investigators and PhD-students from Chile and Sweden have shared their research methodologies on clinical personalized innovations and established milestones for securing international grants and fostering opportunities for academic and student exchanges.
There is often a disparity between biological research and the engineering feasibility of providing products or services to healthcare professionals. Considering the scientific advancements made by researchers in Chile and Sweden, our research topic focuses on advancing research towards clinical innovations in personalized healthcare, adopting a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach.
PIs
Caroll Beltran, Universidad de Concepción
Masood Kamali-Moghaddam, Uppsala University
Participants
Juan Carlos Caro Seguel, Universidad de Concepción
Felipe Andrés Zúñiga Arbalti, Universidad de Concepción
Liliana Lamperti, Universidad de Concepción
Marcel den Hoed, Uppsala University
Francisca Acevedo, Universidad de la Frontera
Carolina Gutiérrez Cáceres, Universidad de Concepción
Gareth Owen, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Tomás González Zarzar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Outcomes
Our initiative has united principal investigators and early-career researchers from both Chile and Sweden, which includes a PhD student, who are part of research teams working across all domains of personalized (or precision) healthcare. Adopting a holistic and multidisciplinary perspective, we have opened discussions to facilitate collaborative efforts aimed at advancing research into clinical innovations in healthcare, with a primary focus on everyone’s specific research area. Moreover, we have set milestones for the establishment of international grants to foster scientific collaboration and create opportunities for academic (sabbatical) and student exchanges. The collaborative initiatives were enhanced by the sharing of technological advancements and available facilities from each member of the research team, highlighted by visits to the Center for Advanced Microscopy CMA BIO BIO, the UdeC Omic Unit within the Faculty of Pharmacy at Udec, and the Biotechnology-MELISA Institute in Chile.