Spectacular transfer of artificial intelligence to the Oncogenic Center

For about 50 years, medicine and informatics have coexisted, but new approaches in IT have greatly changed medicine, accelerating research and leading to the discovery of new drugs and treatments. Obviously, the USA is far ahead of our country in this perspective, and the good news for Romanian researchers is that they will now have a free link to an artificial intelligence program, which is available from the Oncogen website.

Thus, Prof. Tudor Oprea, who works in the field of molecular modeling and the intersection of medicine, drugs, artificial intelligence (IT), arrived in Timișoara. He is a teacher at the University of Medicine in New Mexico Albuquerque and CO at Expert Systems USA, but he was born in Timișoara in 1965. Here he also completed his medical studies and left Romania after 1990, when open borders. For the past 10 years he has led a project to illuminate the human genome, using machine learning and artificial intelligence systems.

Univ. Prof. Dr. Virgil Păunescu, coordinator of Oncogen Timișoara, has been a colleague of Dr. Oprea since the 1990s and has a long collaboration on medical research between OncoGen and Expert System. Now there is an extremely valuable project underway and another one of excellence on a competition of 20 million euros.

“For a year and a half, thanks to highly evolved artificial intelligence, things have fundamentally changed in medical research, because they have entered this lane of IT approach that has greatly modified all the data of the problem and accelerated medical research,” he said Prof. Dr. Virgil Păunescu.

The analysis that Tudor Oprea is working on is very new and essentially seeks to discover new drugs. The new approaches were presented at the Oncogene Center, the visit being very important as a huge technological transfer is now being carried out, which shows us very clearly how big the technological difference is between Romania and the USA.

Basically, Tudor Oprea, the professor who left Romania for the USA, gives all Romanian researchers access to these artificial intelligence programs, which are now freely available on the Oncogen website. This allows them to much more easily synthesize cutting-edge results and discover new drugs.

“We are witnessing a real revolution in science, because it is not just a search engine like Google, but a tool for scientific analysis,” concluded Virgil Păunescu.