Advancing Precision Medicine With Accelerated Computing
NVIDIA’s contributions to accelerating medical imaging, genomics, computational chemistry and AI-powered robotics were honored at the Precision Medicine World Conference in Santa Clara, California, where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang received a Luminary award.
The Precision Medicine World Conference
The Precision Medicine World Conference brings together healthcare leaders, top global researchers and innovators across biotechnology. Its Luminary award recognizes individuals transforming healthcare by advancing precision medicine in the clinic.
NVIDIA’s Contributions
For nearly two decades, NVIDIA has advanced computing in healthcare, working with researchers and industry leaders to build instruments that enable scientists to better understand life sciences, medical imaging, and genomics.
Acceptance Speech
"We built, if you will, a computational instrument. Not a gene sequencer and all the incredible scientific instruments that you all talk about here — in our case, it was a programmable scientific instrument," Huang said in his acceptance speech. "We built it in service of researchers and scientists as you strive to better understand life in our universe."
The First Use of Accelerated Computing in Life Sciences
The first use of accelerated computing in life sciences was in the 2000s — and the introduction of the NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing platform in 2006 paved the path for researchers to demonstrate how NVIDIA GPUs could be used in medical imaging applications like CT reconstruction.
The Impact of AI and Accelerated Computing
"Today, NVIDIA AI and accelerated computing is ‘impacting analysis, interpretation and translation of sequencing data, new sequencing technologies, imaging data, spatial technologies, single-cell genomics, proteomics, molecular dynamics and drug development, as well as the large language models that can be used by doctors, patients, students and teachers to learn this field,’" said Dr. Gad Getz, an internationally acclaimed leader in cancer genomics and the director of bioinformatics at the Massachusetts General Hospital, as he presented the award.
The Future of AI in Healthcare
Huang spoke about the ways AI will support the work of doctors, scientists and researchers advancing medicine. By investing in AI, he explained, research organizations and businesses can set up a powerful flywheel that continuously improves in accuracy, efficiency, and insights by integrating additional data and feedback from every expert who interacts with it over time.
Conclusion
NVIDIA’s contributions to precision medicine have been recognized with the Luminary award, and its work in AI and accelerated computing is transforming the healthcare industry. With AI, doctors will be able to predict, diagnose, and treat diseases in ways previously thought impossible. As Huang predicts, AI will help doctors scan a patient’s genome in seconds, identify risks before symptoms even appear, and model how a tumor evolves, predicting which treatments will work best.
FAQs
Q: What is the Precision Medicine World Conference?
A: The Precision Medicine World Conference is an annual event that brings together healthcare leaders, top global researchers, and innovators across biotechnology.
Q: What is the Luminary award?
A: The Luminary award recognizes individuals transforming healthcare by advancing precision medicine in the clinic.
Q: What are NVIDIA’s contributions to precision medicine?
A: NVIDIA has advanced computing in healthcare, working with researchers and industry leaders to build instruments that enable scientists to better understand life sciences, medical imaging, and genomics.
