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Bii Mission Statement
To create world-class bioinformatics technologies specifically
intended for commercial exploitation, thus enabling the development
of the North East of England as a driving force in bioinformatics
in the UK.
Key Objectives
Bii has three key objectives:
- To create bioinformatics technologies that are commercially
viable;
- To facilitate the exploitation and commercialisation
of knowledge for the benefit of the Region's economy and
the economy of the UK;
- To provide a market-focused research
environment that fosters entrepreneurship, the creation of
new start-ups and spin-outs, and growth in the Region's SME
base.
In addition, Bii has a number of supplementary objectives:
- To promote the North East of England as a location able to
deliver research, development and investment in bioinformatics;
- To
effect technology transfer between Universities and Business;
- To
build long-term, sustainable relationships between the Region's
Universities and Industry;
- To retain talent within the Region;
- To catalyse the growth
of new SMEs;
- To stimulate regional levels of private sector
R&D.
This Institute will also build upon significant expertise located
at the Universities of Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Northumbria
, Sunderland and Teesside. From its outset, the Institute
will be industry-facing and collaborate on cutting-end problems
of relevance to improved medication and healthcare delivery.
The mathematical approaches to be developed will find numerous
cutting-edge applications in modern medicine and therapy development.
These include:
- precocious diagnosis of life-threatening disease
- individuals responding adversely to one or more drugs
- monitoring new treatments in clinical and pre-clinical trials
- predicting disease and treatment outcomes
- improved economic and practical efficiencies in healthcare
delivery
- better targeting of high cost treatments to those patients
most likely to benefit
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