National platform for individual care

– Receiving these large grants from Vinova, together with the support we receive from the regions, means that the strong cooperation that has been built between our seven regions and the seven universities can continue to develop, says Martin Lindqvist, researcher in medical sciences at Vinova University. Örebro University.

The project is implemented within the framework of Genomic Medicine Switzerland (GMS) and will contribute to the creation of an IT infrastructure to be able to share advanced molecular data, so-called omics data, between all regions in Sweden in a secure way.

– The project will demonstrate on a large scale how Swedish healthcare, by changing the system in collecting and making available omics data, will accelerate the introduction of precision medicine into healthcare and create new conditions for research and innovation, says Paula Mölling, molecular biologist and lecturer in laboratory medicine at Örebro County District.

The idea is that it will improve data flow in clinical diagnostics and research through a national platform for precision diagnostics.

– Here in Örebro, among other things, we will develop a national tool for infectious disease outbreaks and surveillance, which is one of our main areas and where we have a leading role at national level in the GMS region, says Paula Mölling.

Huge flows of data must be coordinated

The Venova grant will be used to coordinate data flows from all seven regions in clinical diagnostics and research through the development and dissemination of the National Genome Platform (NGP) within the Greater Mekong Region, as well as the development of new and joint applications to advance precision diagnosis at the national level.

– There is a lot of useful data, and it now resides in a lot of different systems that don’t work together. This means that we cannot take advantage of the opportunities available in light of the tremendous technological development that we are witnessing today. Therefore, we need to find solutions that allow health data to be integrated and used more efficiently both for the benefit of healthcare and for research and development so that we can develop new treatments and medicines, says Paula Mulling.

– We hope that the project will help pave the way for widespread application of precision medicine in healthcare, concludes Martin Lindqvist.

Fact square

Precision medicine in health care Precision medicine creates great opportunities for better care and treatment tailored to the patient’s conditions and needs. In precision medicine, one takes into account, among others, both genetic factors and specific biomarkers as well as, for example, age, gender and lifestyle. There are large amounts of data for each patient, and it is therefore essential to be able to correlate and interpret different data, which the project plans to do with the help of advanced IT infrastructure solutions via the National Genome Platform, NGP and Data Lake. Which are being built within the Greater Mekong region.

Omics data in care, research and innovation -omics means new methods used to study, for example, genetic material, genomics, the extent to which all genes are turned on in a given cell under certain conditions, transcriptomics, or to study variation in a large number of proteins, proteomics. . Alone or in combination, all of these approaches can increase the conditions necessary to provide better, more precise care, move research forward and create new ways forward to improve the care and treatment of our patients.