Table 2.
DT Healthcare Research Centers around the world
| Research Center | Community | Emphasis | Aims |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swedish Digital Twin Center SDTC | Swedish multi-disciplinary healthcare and industry | single-cell RNA seq-based framework | Precision medicine, biomarkers for personalized treatment, new drug candidates, time-dependent personalized prescriptions of drug combinations |
| Empa Research Center | Swedish multi-disciplinary healthcare and industry | Opiates and twinning of transdermal drug delivery | Optimize drug dosage for persons afflicted by chronic pain |
| Human DT One Planet Research Center | Netherlands | Gut microbiome, nutrition, behavior, and identification of lifestyle-related diseases | Optimize diet and lifestyle for disease prevention |
| DIGIPREDICT | A consortium of five European countries | Cardiovascular, infectious diseases, & COVID-19 | Early intervention to halt disease progression in infectious and cardiovascular disease |
| PRIMAGE PRedictive In-Silico Multiscale Analytics to support cancer personalized diaGnosis and prognosis, Empowered by imaging biomarkers | Multi-disciplinary European | Imaging biomarkers and childhood solid malignancies, including neuroblastoma and diffuse pontine glioma | Imaging biomarkers to support clinical decision-making including treatment management to optimize patient outcomes |
| MAI Medical Augmented Intelligence DigiTwin | United States and Taiwan | Converts 2D images to 3D virtual images for patient education | Medical learning through DT for both patients and practitioners |
| The Digital Twin Consortium | Multi-disciplinary from industry, academia, and government. Based in the US and has a global membership | Open to any entity with an interest in DT | Multipurpose DT software development across many sectors |
| The Digital Twin for Health Consortium78 | Multidisciplinary DT enthusiasts interested in developing the digital twin infrastructure for healthcare | Develop DTs for better health in collaboration with all the stakeholders in the healthcare spectrum | On-going projects on digital twins for lung cancer, sepsis, mental health diseases, leukemia, and cardiovascular diseases |