UoM/ISSF Sandpit - Multimodal Data Integration with Biomedical Applications

Digital Futures is a highly interdisciplinary network which operates across the whole range of the University’s digital research.The aim of Digital Futures is to present a coherent overview of our digital research activity to external stakeholders and bring together our research communities to explore new research areas and address strategic opportunities.We group our activity around themes that encapsulate our broad research capabilities and the challenges to which these can be applied. These themes do not operate as self-contained entities; however, there is considerable synergy and overlap between them, and many of our academics are involved in a number of capability and challenge themes.

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One of two University of Manchester Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund ‘Sandpit’ events taking place in 2022

The Multi-modal Data Integration with Biomedical Applications sandpit is a 1 day event, scheduled to take place from 10.00 to 16.00 on Thursday 21st April.This is an online eventWe are hosting a sandpit to stimulate new Biomedical/AI collaborative activity, focused on Multi-modal data integration with biomedical applications. Kinds of data that can be combined may include (but will not be limited to) imaging, textual and omics (incl. single-cell, spatial and multi-omics) datasets. The morning session will feature invited speakers and lightening talks from attendees.In the afternoon session, participants will explore the application of statistical and machine learning approaches to biomedical data integration and develop proposals.Following the event our review panel will award funding for a number of projects.Programme10.00		Morning Welcome10.05 	Speaker 1 - Prof. Harri Lähdesmäki - Aalto University Deep generative modelling: multi-modal, longitudinal and missing data 10.35	Lightening talks session 111.20 	Break 11.30	Speaker 2 Dr Carl Ek – University of Cambridge Latent Variable Models for Multi-modal data12.00	Lightening talks session 21.00	Lunch break1.30	Afternoon Welcome1.35	Sandpit Session 12.35	Break2.45 	Sandpit Session 23.45	Next steps for application 4.00 	CloseA total pot of £80k is available for projects up to a maximum of 6 month in duration.Proposals must be submitted by 5th May and projects must be completed by the end of 2022.Please note that due to the nature of this funding, each funded project must be led by a researcher from the University of Manchester.*We have now received the maximum number of lightening talks we can accommodate, if you you wish to apply now, you will be placed on waiting list.*Lightening talks must be no more than 4 mins and 4 slides with no video content. If you wish to give a lightening talk please tick the box when registering for the event.<ul></ul>Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support FundThe University’s <a href="https://www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/support/funding/wellcome-issf/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wellcome Institutional Strategic Support Fund</a> (Wellcome ISSF) supports a portfolio of biomedical research activities that harmonises with our research strategy.Institute for Data Science and Artificial IntelligenceManchester&#x27;s<a href="http://www.datascience.manchester.ac.uk/about/what-we-do/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Institute for Data Science &amp; Artificial Intelligence</a> acts as an access point to the University’s expertise in data science and artificial intelligence, facilitates interactions between researchers and problem holders, owns the University’s data science strategy, and will deliver sustainable support for the community.Digital Futures<a href="http://www.digitalfutures.manchester.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Digital Futures</a> is a highly interdisciplinary network which operates across the whole range of the University’s digital research. To find out more about activity in Digital Futures, sign up to the Digital Futures newsletter <a href="https://manchester.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=ad639f09ca77836def20e7f13&amp;id=f04db72adc" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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