Organised by Manchester Integrating Medicine and Innovative Technology (MIMIT) the aim of this high-profile meeting was to explore opportunities for collaboration and identify current unmet health problems that could be solved by combining the technical expertise of world-leading research scientists with the power of data and technology.
Hosted at The University of Manchester’s Health eResearch Centre (HeRC) the workshop formed part of an innovative ‘Researcher Development Programme’ (MHEET) that aims to create a framework for nurturing meaningful academic collaborations between the Manchester Academic Health Science Centre (MAHSC) and Harvard Medical School.
Gathering under the theme of “Replication engines between US and EU Clinical Epidemiological datasets” the collaboration was jointly led by Prof Iain Buchan (HeRC) and Prof Issac Kohane from the Center for Biomedical Informatics (CBMI) at Harvard Medical School.
Supported by a team of esteemed academic mentors1 at The University of Manchester, two researchers from Harvard worked closely with select researchers from Manchester2 in an intensive and hands-on workshop that was designed to stretch participants and tease out new ideas.