Sano (2019-2026)

Project details

Fullname: Centre for New Methods in Computational Diagnostics and Personalised Therapy
Short name: Sano
Duration: From 1.08.2019 to 31.07.2026
Grant number: 857533

Sano Centre, created in Kraków, Poland, in the framework of Teaming for Excellence Phase 2 action, as well as the FNP International Research Agendas competition and with a financial support from the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, will be a major driver for European advancement in rapidly growing field of computational medicine, developing sophisticated engineering methods for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease, and meeting the overarching worldwide need for radically streamlined healthcare systems.

The Sano's area of operation is computational medicine:

• clinician-led activity can be radically reduced by migrating the majority of routine clinical assessments toward computationally-driven,
• entirely new approaches to disease diagnosis and management follow the development of novel computed biomarkers of disease, personalised to the individual patient, and typically leading to dramatically reduced costs.

The Sano Centre combines expertise in machine-learning based decision science with fundamental biomarker identification using advanced simulation and data analysis methods.

When fully developed, the Centre will act as a core technology provider for industry, fostering modernisation, innovation and increasing productivity, and additionally it will act as a catalyst, attracting new investment and businesses. It will provide an essential link between computational, medical sciences and the industrial sector, thus fostering knowledge and technology transfer and accelerating innovation.

Sano was established in Kraków because of several local advantages with regard to the education and research infrastructure, the high concentration of research hospitals and a dynamic entrepreneurial community in life sciences, so being embedded in a highly dynamic and competitive ecosystem.

The Centre will provide a fully sustainable mix of three advanced technical services, loosely categorised as education, project participation and industrial product development, with these three strands ultimately contributing approximately equally to the Centre’s income stream.

Sano Partners

• Sano - Centre for Computational Personalised Medicine - International Research Foundation
• Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH
• LifeScience Cluster Kraków – a Key National Cluster
• University of Sheffield and Insigneo Institute
• Forschungszentrum Jülich
• Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
• National Center for Research and Development (left the project in 2Q2021, according to the work plan)
• RWTH Aachen University (Linked Third Party)
• Sheffield Teaching Hospital (Linked Third Party)

Cyfronet personnel involved in the project

1. Marian Bubak: Cyfronet Teaming project leader
2. Maciej Malawski: Work Package 3 leader
3. Sabina Lichołai
4. Piotr Nowakowski
5. Tomasz Gubała
6. Karolina Jarosińska

The list of current Sano Centre Personnel

Former Cyfronet Teaming for Excellence project members

Jan Meizner, Tomasz Michalczyk, Tadeusz Satława

Sano presentations

• Sano overview presentation (PPT, PDF), 13.08.2020

• Sano extended EU Hearing presentation (PPT, PDF)
• Sano presentation at the Cracow Tech Week (PPT, PDF), 22.05.2019
• Sano presentation at the CompBioMed2 Kick-off: (PPT, PDF), 22.10.2019
• Sano presentation at the Conference International Cooperation: (PPT, PDF), 24.10.2019
• Sano presentation at the PRIMAGE Workshop "Advanced ICT for Medical Imaging Research and Innovation": (PPT, PDF), 31.10.2019
• M. Bubak, M. Kasztelnik, J. Meizner, P. Nowakowski, T. Gubała, M. Malawski: "Towards a Universal Platform for Large Scale Simulations on Prometheus" (abstract, presentation), KUKDM 2020 Conference planned on 5-6.03.2020
• M. Bubak: "Sano after one year of operation" (PPT, PDF), presented on 23.11.2020 at LSOS 2020 and Cyfronet AGH Open Day

Sano leaflets

• Sano leaflet (PDF)
• SanoCentre and the COVID-19 pandemic leaflet (PDF), 9.04.2020

Sano documents

• Extended abstract
• Extended abstract in Polish

Deliverables

Teaming deliverables elaborated

Teaming deliverables planned for 2021