Reinhard Laubenbacher, Fred Adler, Gary An, Filippo Castiglione, Stephen Eubank, Luis L Fonseca, James Glazier, Tomas Helikar, Marti Jett-Tilton, Denise Kirschner, Paul Macklin, Borna Mehrad, Beth Moore, Virginia Pasour, Ilya Shmulevich, Amber Smith, Isabel Voigt, Thomas E Yankeelov, Tjalf Ziemssen
Medical digital twins are computational models of human biology relevant to a given medical condition, which are tailored to an individual patient, thereby predicting the course of disease and individualized treatments, an important goal of personalized medicine. The immune system, which has a central role in many diseases, is highly heterogeneous between individuals, and thus poses a major challenge for this technology. In February 2023, an international group of experts convened for two days to discuss these challenges related to immune digital twins...
February 16, 2024: NPJ Systems Biology and Applications