DERI Galway
National University of Ireland, Galway   Science Foundation Ireland
 

Mission

Within healthcare there are three layers which form the integral process of delivering care to patients, also known as the "bench-to-bedside" process of drug delivery. At the bottom layer we have fundamental research into Life Sciences which researches the impact, at molecular level, of diseases to the body. Drugs are then developed which are brought to clinical trial resulting in a discipline known as translational medicine where the impact of the drug is determined and fed back into the research process. Clinical practice involves the treatment of the patient by a clinician. The focus of this work programme is on the "bench-to-bedside" process of drug research and development. It will focus on Life Sciences as part of fundamental research, translational medicine in clinical research, and tele-health as part of clinical practice. The overarching objective is to reduce the cost associated with the drug research and delivery process, raising the efficiency of clinical research through data integration and enabling the self-management of disease by the patient through telehealth.


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Events
image: 12th European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence 1
JELIA 2010
September 13-15, 2010
Helsinki, Finland
image: EKAW 2010 - Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management by the Masses 1
EKAW 2010
October 11-15, 2010
Lisbon, Portuga
image: 9th International Semantic Web Conference 1
ISWC2010
November 7-11, 2010
Shanghai, China