DBTB INT Petros Giannikopoulos r
Recording: DBTB INT Petros Giannikopoulos r
my name is Petros Janek opolis and I am the co-founder and president driver um well this is a new community for me so I'm a my background is I'm a physician and specifically a molecular pathologist and so I don't you know I interact with data scientists and engineers internally a driver so it's always a pleasure to meet people who are working on Big Data projects and you know working on hard problems kind of outside of our company so it's just it's a great opportunity to meet people and it's also been wonderful to see the response that we've been getting because you know you never know interesting sort of people get touched by cancer in lots of different ways sometimes in ways you know expect and so so yes it's great so I've enjoyed the opportunity to kind of be part of this community so that's very grateful for to be invited to speak well data I mean data is always been cool it's the basis for scientific discovery so if you like science if you like discovery I mean the I mean the ancient Greeks would sort of keep track of star charts and you know Tycho Brahe he had a few remember him he was a famous astronomer who famously cut off his own i guess lost his no tip of his nose in a duel and were like this silver knows he was known for basically keeping the most meticulous sort of astronomical sort of charts and so that was a form of data science and that was from you know centuries ago so there's nothing new about looking at data we just now have new tools that allow us to collect more of it and and in our world in medicine it's particularly exciting because it's basically been an analog world spin they call it an art and it's been an art up until I married to relatively recently and so in pathology or in cancer you know you diagnose people based on your physical exam and you know looking at morphology things that are very they're not sort of discrete data points but now with sort of genomics its knob turning into it's moving from being analog into being digital treatment options are based on very specific criteria so now you can convert it's no longer the doctor sort of having a gut instinct that you should try this but these are based everything is driven by information and so it's it's exciting out because we're in the early stages of this and groups that and it had one knows I think everyone knows where we have to go but how we get there it's only cut its it's only a matter it's like I were going to get there in five years we're going to get there 50 years so so medicines that are going to transformation I think medicine is very reluctant to changing so we've I think that's why it's very important for or people from my sort of my world to network and reach out to people from this side of the world because I think people some people have been meeting here you know work in industries that you know where the idea of sort of disrupting and sort of doing things sort of its scale is becomes much more naturally to build bridges great science and great discoveries innovation happens when people from different domains get together and that's been the story of particularly in the 20th century in the 21st century it's it's when you know I think people forget molecular biology took off right after World War two because there was sort of a there's a number of disillusioned physicists who decided they wanted to study life like even Schrodinger wrote this famous of SI I'm like what is life and it was that influx of sort of scientific rigor and some ways it was almost like a reductionist science that came into biology because biologists to be like very flower really flowery and kind of describing everything and it was sort of that rigorous almost like physicist approach to doing snot to do to sending biology that led to you know sort of that gave rise to molecular biology crystallography for example the discovery of the structure of DNA that was all that came out of that was at Cambridge University when you know at the Cavendish where they were studying sort of x-ray diffraction for crystals that was like a Nobel Prize back in the early 1900's and they start applying it to like proteins and nucleic acids and then we should discover the double helix then you can say then that's what led to sort of discovering the genetic code in in the 60s and this sort of kind of you know I'm eating snow balled and then the war on cancer got started in 1971 and that was really what kind of kicked off sort of the molecular biology revolution so the point is you need people from different disciplines coming at problems in an unbiased way because what's people will always come up with new creative solutions to things that you can't come up with if you just been in it for a long time so don't be afraid of medicine don't be afraid of biology kind of roll up your sleeves and get in it