The INCEPTION aims to develop a core structure to mobilize data resources, numerical sciences, and fundamental experimental biology in various health issues.
The inception program uses Integrative Biology, Social Science, and Data Science to understand the Emergence of Diseases in Populations and Individuals, gathering different fields of expertise (biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics, statistics, physics, and social sciences).
The scientific project is divided into four axes. The first axis, “Methods for Integrative Biology”, comprises various mathematics, statistics, and computer science domains to be mobilized and developed. Their common objective is to enable the study of the emergence of diseases in populations (second axis) but also within individuals (third axis). These two scales of investigation are increasingly linked, for example, through the use of concepts and tools from evolutionary biology. Lastly, the fourth axis involves Social Sciences, in which Inception is influential in understanding and predicting the development of epidemics and building consistent health policies over the long term.
The INCEPTION program addresses societal challenges related to diseases emergence:
- Global surveillance and monitoring
- Multi-scale analyses, integrating the ecosystem
- Social sphere to define health policies
- New methodological approaches to make sense of biological big-data
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