SAS, a global leader in data science, machine learning and AI platforms, and the Maxwell Centre at the University of Cambridge have signed a partnership aimed at accelerating healthcare innovation through enhanced access to advanced analytics. The unique SAS Advanced Analytics Hub will embed SAS experts and SAS® Viya® data and AI platform capabilities into the University environment, enabling targeted collaboration on high-quality, high-impact academic research projects and promising early-stage startups in the health-tech space.
This collaboration was initiated and led by Dr Alex Samoshkin (Deputy Head, OTR), who facilitates interactions between clinicians and researchers from the Biomedical Campus with researchers in science and technology working with the Maxwell Centre on the Cambridge West campus.
The partners have already demonstrated the effectiveness of the collaboration in a University of Cambridge-led project by Prof. Gavin Pettigrew to optimise qualification of kidney transplants by an AI-based decision support approach using SAS’s dynamic analytics platform (watch the case study video on the right). This has the potential to save lives and transform the quality of life for more than 100 people each year in the UK alone, as well as saving the NHS millions of pounds annually.
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