Cleveland Clinic hosted its second annual Cleveland Discovery & Innovation Forum on April 7.
Here are five highlights from the event, according to an April 8 news release:
1. Over 20 speakers from academia, government, foundations, industry and venture capital discussed the latest in healthcare and life sciences research. “We created the Cleveland Discovery & Innovation Forum to bring together global leaders in research and innovation to explore how advanced computing can drive new discoveries and help improve healthcare for all patients,” said Lara Jehi, MD, chief research information officer at Cleveland Clinic.
2. Fireside chats featured Rohit Chandra, PhD, executive vice president and chief digital officer of Cleveland Clinic, and Serpil Erzurum, MD, executive vice president and chief research and academic officer of Cleveland Clinic, talking with IBM executives David Cox, PhD, and Alessandro Curioni, PhD.
3. The forum was officially recognized as part of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, led by UNESCO. Cleveland Clinic, in partnership with UNESCO, said it would provide researchers in Africa with remote access to the health system’s IBM Quantum System One.
4. Cleveland Clinic said it would be collaborating with CAS, a healthcare and life sciences research arm of the American Chemical Society, to advance research into healthy aging and prevention of chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
5. Cleveland Clinic joined a global quantum computing challenge from digital nonprofit Connected DMV and the Quantum World Congress to use the technology to better understand brain activity and develop treatments for neurological disorders.
