"New York Health Care: Big Data Leads to Flu Discovery"

Researchers from several centers, including the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, published a study in Cell Host & Microbe that explains how scientists tapped into publically available large-scale ‘Omics’ databases to identify new targets to treat influenza. “Our work illustrates how the computational analysis of large datasets from multiple independent studies can reveal novel host factors and networks involved in virus replication as potential targets for therapeutic intervention,” said Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, PhD, director of the Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. “’Big data is no longer merely a catchphrase – it is a real tool to help scientists address the world’s most serious public health threats.” Learn more.