Ohio Supercomputer Center and Nationwide Children’s Use Supercomputers to Speed Diagnoses

The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) and the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital have begun collaborating on informatics services that will help speed the discovery of new techniques for customizing the treatment of childhood diseases ranging from pediatric cancers to muscular dystrophy.  

Through visualization technologies that help simplify and magnify the drug identification process, medical researchers can develop faster, more personalized medical solutions. However, medical data is often so complex that using visualization to track the progression of a given disease and potential cures is still computationally intensive. Working from an agreement reached last year, the OSC and Nationwide Children’s have begun offering a production environment, services and support these visualization technologies and speed discovery techniques of childhood diseases. 

“Our intent is to assist institutions and medical professionals by developing innovative and cost-effective solutions to enhance their research and translational initiatives,” said Dave Billiter, director of the Research Informatics Core at Nationwide Children’s Biopathology Center. “We believe this partnership with OSC will aid in transforming pediatric patient treatment by adding a translational component to speed the ‘bench to bedside’ process essential to biomedical findings.”

For more on this story, see the release from Nationwide Children’s.