Drs. Reinhard Laubenbacher and Borna Mehrad organized the 2023 Forum On Precision Immunology, with a focus on on Immune Digital Twins.
Medical digital twins are computational models of human biology relevant to a given medical condition, which can be tailored to an individual patient, thereby predicting the course of disease and individualized treatments, an important goal of personalized medicine. Since the immune system is a key factor in many diseases, it demands special attention. In February 2023, an international group of experts convened in Lake Nona, FL, for two days to discuss problems related to digital twins of the immune system. The group consisted of clinicians, immunologists, biologists, and mathematical modelers, representative of the interdisciplinary nature of medical digital twin development. Video recordings of all presentations and a downloadable meeting report are available on the main page.
The event was sponsored by the Biomathematics Program at the U.S. DoD Army Research Office and the UF Department of Medicine.