Icahn Institute's Eric Schadt on Data Analysis in Medicine

How does supercomputing prove useful in medical research? “There are two main paths,” said Eric Schadt, PhD, Director of the Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Chairman of the Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences, and the Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Genomics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “One is in managing the amount of data that can be generated today in the medical arena, things like DNA sequencing. For example, a whole genome sequence of a cancer patient would generate a terabyte of data. The other path would be coming up with predictive models of disease based on the subtype of disease you have and what treatments may best target that subtype of disease.”

-Dr. Eric Schadt, Director of the Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Chairman of the Department of Genetics and Genomics Sciences and the Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Genomics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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