SPOKE Collaboration - National Science Foundation
Building the Ultimate Nexus of Knowledge For Biomedical Data
Highlighting an unprecedented partnership to advance the power of big data in medicine, University of California San Francisco, together with data giant Google, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Institute for Systems Biology, has been granted the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator Award. This award testifies to the national importance given to “Harness the Data Revolution” by engaging partnerships between public and private sectors and converging their research efforts. While a total of twenty-one awards were announced, UCSF is the only one targeting a wide spectrum of biomedicine and health.
SPOKE is validating its findings in clinical decision support, partnering with UCSF’s BRIDGE point-of-care platform. Together with the clinical evidence base in UCSF’s Information Commons, SPOKE and BRIDGE form a full-loop pilot Learning Healthcare System. The pilot was funded by the Marcus Program in Precision Medicine at UCSF.
