Symposium
Data Science for Personalized Medicine
Recent Advances and Future Directions
Tuesday, June 9, 2015, 14:30‐18:00
Medical University of Vienna, Spitalgasse 23, 1090 Vienna, BT 88, 2nd floor, Jugenstilhörsaal
About the symposium:
Personalized Medicine mainly aims at translating a patient’s genetic, other biomolecular or clinical
information into individualized diagnostic or therapeutic decisions that are specifically tuned or
optimized toward that patient’s organism.
Success in this endeavor increasingly entails the strong need for methods and techniques from Data
Science – a scientific field that unites the latest accomplishments of statistics, mathematics,
computer science (informatics) and related areas – to optimally extract the information contained in
the data. To meet the current needs in this field, the Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and
Intelligent Systems (CeMSIIS) at the Medical University of Vienna has created a focused research area
bundling expertise at the center for optimal contributions to research projects in personalized
medicine – see cemsiis.meduniwien.ac.at/ds4pm.
This symposium presents a mixture of past work and future plans to highlight the major directions of
Data Science for Personalized Medicine (DS4PM) at the Medical University of Vienna. It aims at
addressing clinicians, biologists or other life scientists together with researchers from data science in
order to spur relevant future research in Vienna and beyond.

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Agenda – DS4PM Symposium
14:30‐14:45 The Research Focus Area DS4PM at CeMSIIS – an Overview
Georg Dorffner, Section for Artificial Intelligence, CeMSIIS, Medical University of Vienna
14:45‐15:05 Omics to Bedside
Wolfgang Schreiner, Section for Biosimulation and Bioinformatics, CeMSIIS, Medical University of
Vienna
15:05‐15:25 MOSGWA, a model selection based software environment for GWAS analysis
Florian Frommlet, Section for Medical Statistics, CeMSIIS, Medical University of Vienna

15:25‐15:45 Complexity Science, Big Data, and New Applications in Medicine
Peter Klimek, Section for Science of Complex Systems, CeMSIIS, Medical University of Vienna

15:45‐16:15 Invited Talk: MuSiCO: from Multigene Signature to the Patient‐Orientated Clinical Outcome
Diana Mechtcheriakova, Dept. of Pathophysiology and Allergy Research, Medical University of Vienna

16:15‐16:45 Coffee Break
16:45‐17:45 Winners of the DS4PM “Best Research Idea” Competition 2015
16:45‐17:05 Interdisciplinary Approach: (Ab)Using Algorithms from Molecular Dynamics for Genome
Data
Michael Kenn, Karin Schlangen

17:05‐17:25 Decision Support Systems for Clinical Pharmacogenomics
Sebastian Hofer, Kathrin Blagec, Matthias Samwald,

17:25‐17:45 Biomarker Discovery: Combining Biological Knowledge and Statistical Evidence
Daniela Dunkler, Georg Heinze

17:45‐18:00 Invitation for Research Partnerships and General Discussion
18:00‐19:30 Buffett and Networking