The University of Oxford has joined forces with Aarhus University and the University of Copenhagen to create a new Pioneer Centre that will become a significant international partner for data-driven medical research. The Pioneer Centre is anchored at Aarhus University with hub sites at each of the three universities and with a total grant of DKK 250 million.
Can research on diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, psychiatric disorders and endometriosis be linked? The answer is yes if the research focuses on collecting and analysing large amounts of data from both Danish and international registers and biobanks to learn more about, among other things, risk factors, relationships, patterns, treatment and consequences.
And this is exactly what a new international Pioneer Centre, The Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed (Statistical and Computational Methods for Advanced Research to Transform Biomedicine) will collect and analyse large amounts of data from both Danish and international registers and biobanks to learn more about, among other things, risk factors, relationships, patterns, treatment and consequences for diseases as diverse as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, psychiatric diseases and endometriosis.
The Pioneer Centre has three main objectives:
- To bring together multidisciplinary research teams to develop new methods for analysing biomedical data.
- To develop data platforms and software for biomedical research that are based on real medical issues and that are easily applicable.
- To establish an internationally leading learning and career environment in health data research.