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Vice-chancellor’s Interview. Virtual You: How Building Your Digital Twin Will Revolutionise Medicine

Roger Highfield and Peter Coveney Chaired by Irene Tracey

Friday, 31 March 2023

12:00pm

1 hour

Sheldonian Theatre

£7 - £12.50

Scientists Professor Peter Coveney and Professor Roger Highfield explain how scientists around the world are building virtual copies of individual human beings that will help them to predict our risk of disease and identify the therapies that will improve our wellbeing and extend our lives.

Coveney and Highfield say there are many challenges left in the creation of so-called digital twins and explain what it will take to build one. They look at the complexity of the human body and the latest scientific advances, including multiscale modelling and new forms of computing that will make a ‘virtual you’ possible. And they look at the ethical questions involved in achieving so-called ‘predictive medicine’.

Coveney is director of the Centre for Computational Science at University College London, professor at the Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, and professor adjunct at the Yale School of Medicine. Highfield is science director at the Science Museum Group, a member of the Medical Research Council, and visiting professor at University College London and the Dunn School, University of Oxford.

Discussions will be chaired by the new vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford Professor Irene Tracey, a professor of anaesthetic neuroscience in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Biosciences. Tracey is a former warden of Merton College and a founding member and former director of the world-leading Oxford Centre for Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, now the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging.

This is the inaugural Vice-chancellor’s Interview at which speakers are invited for interview by the Vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford.

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FT Weekend Title partner University of Oxford Netflix European Union Delegation of the European Union to the United Kingdom Cultural Relations Platform Supporter of the festival's Voices of Europe programme BBC World Service International radio partner Owen Mumford Supporter of programme of science and medicine and annual science and innovation award Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Spanish Embassy Event generously supported by the Spanish Embassy Cervantes Institute, London Republic of Panama Event generously supported by Republic of Panama Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner International Literary Properties Supporters of the festival green room Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller The Randolph Hotel by Graduate Hotels Sponsor of the festival crime fiction programme The Feathers Hotel Woodstock festival hotel John Roberts Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture Emily Rose and James Marrow Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Miles Young Masumi and Jonathan Dobson George Warren Pank Koria CEO of Project People Lucian Hudson Carole and John Allen David Isaac Jill Dunsmore Mary and Cecil Quillen Supporters of the programme of American literature and culture Anna Hunter Marlene Hauser Exeter College Exeter College: college home of the festival New College Worcester College Worcester College Lincoln College Lincoln College St Cross College St Cross College Trinity College Trinity College Pasture to Plate Compassion in World Farming Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Princeton University Press Prestige publishing partner TORVA Books which change you, your mind, your world Transworld Doubleday Doubleday Bantam Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Foodbuy Thje Menu Partners Institute of Hospitality Project People Royal Academy of Arts British Academy Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies Racalia Olive Oil Olive oil from Sicily The Oxford Times Regional media partner BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design Paul Bloomfield Ltd University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Conference Oxford Felicity Bryan Associates CAV Oxford Critchleys Accountants to the festival The Sheldonian Theatre Oxford University Images Oxford University Images Oxford Brookes University Siren Communications Siren Communications - corporate consultants OX magazine Ox in a Box K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography The Litmus Partnership Schoolreaders Chêne Bleu Wines of Provence La Leccia Flip through Flanders Literature Ireland Confucius Institute Pusey House James Currey Society The Wild Geese