Harnessing Data Science for Translation of Central Nervous System (CNS) Injury Research

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2-580 Moos Tower

Speakers:

Adam Ferguson
Adam R. Ferguson, PhD
Associate Professor and Principal Investigator,
Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Brain and Spinal Injury Center (BASIC)
Department of Neurological Surgery
University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

CNS injuries such as traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury and stroke are complex, multifaceted disorders. This complexity poses a challenge for discovery, translation and precision medicine. I will review recent work from our team demonstrating the value of applied data science (data sharing/machine intelligence/analytics) for driving bench-to-bedside translation and clinical implementation of CNS injury research.