Owkin Teams up with NVIDIA and King's College London

Owkin, which is developing Federated Learning and AI technologies to advance medical research, announces it is teaming up with technology company NVIDIA and King's College London (KCL) to deliver Federated Learning in the healthcare and life sciences sector. The King's College London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare (AI4VBH) is one of the world's most ambitious Federated Learning projects in healthcare. It will initially connect four of London's premier teaching hospitals before expanding throughout the UK, and will offer AI services to accelerate research and improve clinical practice in a wide range of therapeutic areas, including cancer, heart failure and neurodegenerative disease. Owkin's co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer, Gilles Wainrib, said: "This partnership brings together the best players in life science & healthcare, machine learning and data center infrastructure. NVIDIA's platforms create the ideal and flexible footprint for hospitals to invest in machine learning. King's College London has assembled the engineering, medical and data science talent, the high-quality patient data, and the governance framework in the AI4VBH Centre, that will show the world the future of healthcare analytics and the power of machine learning. Together we will be enabling the formation of a decentralized dataset that will generate enormous value for research and clinical practice. Owkin hopes to demonstrate that a Federating Learning architecture is safer for patients, and statistically equivalent to the traditional pooled model for analysis. Owkin also sees huge research potential to analyse the patient data in the AI4VBH Centre to identify new biomarkers, and high value subgroups for clinical trial design and diagnostics."