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Medical Systems Biomedicine approaches
NIMSB aims to pioneer excellent interdisciplinary research to detect the earliest cellular changes that cause the onset of disease. Such unprecedented, sensitive and precise detection is made possible by the emergence and integration of new breakthrough technologies.
Timely detection and successful treatment of disease depend crucially on understanding and defining when, why, and how cells deviate from healthy states in specific patient groups, based on their genetic background and environmental history. Health research in diverse human populations is key for more inclusive and precise treatments within Europe and worldwide. Discovering the earliest causative pathological cellular changes will be translated through proactive innovation programs into novel diagnostics with increased accuracy for disease detection even before symptoms arise, creating unforeseen therapeutic opportunities to intercept disease and cure patients, before irreparable damage to tissues and organs.
NIMSB have identified three major challenges where breakthrough medical systems biology approaches have the greatest potential to benefit patients:
NIMSB @ iNOVA4Health
In january 2025, NIMSB Research is set to join to iNOVAHealth Research Unit rated as Excellent by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
iNOVA4Health is a translational medicine programme organizing the efforts of biomedical researchers involved in:
- biological understanding of disease, lead compounds and biopharmaceuticals pre-discovery
- technology-basedl science involved in preclinical development
- early clinical and first-in-man clinical trials from institutions within NOVA University of Lisbon.
The iNOVA4Health programme will have a strong emphasis on developing therapies to promote healthy ageing and in targeting chronic diseases that are responsible for two thirds of deaths worldwide and a major burden on healthcare systems.