Evaluating and Enhancing Precision Medicine in Quebec: A Capacity Building Roadmap through AI

Student: Goktug Bender, majoring in Psychology

Project Overview: Precision medicine has been an important topic in the future development of healthcare. As the focus of medicine is shifting towards prevention rather than reaction, predictive technologies and AI will gain importance. Addressing the complex task of personalized medicine necessitates the seamless integration and analysis of extensive datasets. The research team will aim to assess the feasibility and create an infrastructure roadmap for implementing precision medicine in Quebec utilizing AI technologies. They intend to illuminate best practices for the integration of AI-driven precision medicine initiatives within the broader healthcare framework, while considering its socio-technical feasibility in the Quebec healthcare context, thereby contributing to the advancement of interdisciplinary research in the realm of AI and society.

SUPERVISORS

Professor Alberto Cambrosio completed a Ph.D. in History and Socio-Politics of Science at the University of Montreal, and a post-doc at MIT’s Science, Technology & Society Program.  His research interests in biomedical science and technology studies include biomedical innovation at the clinical, laboratory, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical industry interfaces; ‘Genomics in action’, the analysis of concrete instances of bio-clinical work, via the investigation of public, academic, and commercial programs that capitalize on the therapeutic insights offered by the new molecular genetics of cancer; oncology’s ‘metaknowledge’ networks, the deployment of new computational tools to trace research teams and collaboration networks, investigative and clinical technologies, the myriad recombinant elements under investigation, and the changing landscape of institutions that hosts them.

Professor Samer Faraj holds the Canada Research Chair in Technology, Innovation & Organizing at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. He is head of the research group on Complex Collaboration and was the former Director of the Faculty’s PhD program. His current research focuses on complex collaboration in settings as diverse as health care organizations, knowledge teams, and online communities. He is also interested in how emergent social technologies are transforming organizations and allowing new forms of coordination and organizing to emerge.