The Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine is hosting the 5th edition of the James Best Distinguished Lecture with Professor Michael Snyder on 25 March 2025. He will be delivering a lecture on the topic of "Personalised Medicine in Future Healthcare."
As a pioneer of Precision Medicine, Professor Michael Snyder has invented many technologies enabling the 21st century of healthcare including systems biology, RNA sequencing, and protein chips. He has initiated the Big Data approach to healthcare through his work using omics to detect early stage disease, including wearables to detect infectious diseases like COVID-19, and at-home microsampling to measure thousands of molecules from a single drop of blood. Professor Snyder is the first researcher to gather petabytes of data on individuals, which is 1 million - 1 trillion times more data than the average clinician collects. He has published over 900 papers and is one of the most cited scientists. In terms of commercial success, Professor Snyder has co-founded 17 companies (including 2 unicorns) with combined enterprise value of over $6 billion.
"Our present healthcare system focuses on treating people when they are ill rather than keeping them healthy. We have been using big data and remote monitoring approaches to monitor people while they are healthy to keep them that way and detect disease at its earliest moment presymptomatically. We use advanced multiomics technologies (genomics, immunomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, microbiomics) as well as wearables and microsampling for actively monitoring health. Following a group of 109 individuals for over 13 years revealed numerous major health discoveries covering cardiovascular disease, oncology, metabolic health and infectious disease. We have also found that individuals have distinct ageing patterns that can be measured in an actionable period of time. Finally, we have used wearable devices for early detection of infectious disease, including COVID-19 as well as microsampling for monitoring and improving lifestyle. We believe that advanced technologies have the potential to transform healthcare and keep people healthy."
This event brings together thought leaders and industry experts to address thought-provoking issues in medicine, and foster dialogue in the transformation of medical research and health. Come join us at the 5th edition of the James Best Distinguished Lecture Series. This lecture series is supported by the LKCMedicine 10th Anniversary (2020) Distinguished Visitor programme.
*This lecture will be held in-person only and is pending CME accreditation from the Singapore Medical Council (SMC).