Health & Life Science

A tailored solution, to meet your needs

Introduction Victorian Partnership For Advanced Computing LTD

• A Not for Profit “R&D Services” company

• Founded in 2000 by a consortium of universities

• Expanding Membership

• Employ over 60 staff in specialist fields

• “Our aim is to help Australians utilise research tools and advanced computing to create innovations that will place Australia at the forefront of global scientific achievement.”

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Health & Life Science InitiativesFor improved health outcomes

• Coupling Expert Scientists, Technologists & Infrastructure

• Health Services– Systems Integration– Clinical Application & Database Development– Secure Health Data Hosting

• Life Science Services– Modelling & Visualisation– Computational Biology & Bioinformatics– Virtual Screening & Ligand Analysis– Full Life Cycle Systems Biology

Advanced Computing InitiativesTo improve your business

• Complete solutions to meet your business needs

• Advanced Computing

– Consultancy Services

– Systems Management

– Systems Engineering

– Large Scale Storage

– Visualisation Facilities

– High Performance Computing

Pairing Services, to Obtain ResultsUsing VPAC HPC facilities and expert Life Science staff, researchers at Monash University and the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne were able to establish that Perforin proteins “break into cells that have been hijacked by viruses or turned into cancer cells and allows toxic enzymes in, to

destroy the cell from within.”

Limitations OpportunitiesInnovative, cost effective, results oriented

• Bridging the gaps

– Pairing experts

– Full Time professionals

• Providing solutions

– Prototyping

– Bleeding edge

Current SolutionsInfinite Innovation

– Software Development• Diabetes Clinical Portal (BioGrid Aus – 5 hospitals) • Obesity Clinical Portal (VPAC – 2 hospitals)• HL7 Engine (Vetinari) (VPAC – 3 hospitals)• Tuberculosis Portal (St Vincent’s Hosp – 2 hospitals)• iMDT Cancer Services (MDM) Portal (St Vincent’s Hosp)• Pituitary Clinical Platform (BioGrid Aus - 3 hospitals)• BioSpecimen Viewer

– Secure Hosting• Aperio Hosting (VicCancer BioBank)• Cresalys Hosting (VicCancer BioBank)• GRHANITE Secure Data Hosting (Uni Melbourne)• PHA Data Hosting (CSIRO)• Precedence Health Hosting (Precedence Health)

– Research & Development• MISLE Omics Platform (Bio21)• Mass Spectrometry Software (Mascot) (VPAC)• The Human Variome Project (Aus) (Uni Melbourne)• Bioinformatics Computing (Dell & AMD)

For more...Infinite Innovation

Don’t forget, none of this could be possible without our partners and the clinicians they support!

Key PartnersVictorian Cancer BioBankBioGrid Australia Bio21 InstituteHVP AustraliaDell & AMD

Hospitals We Work WithAustin HealthBakerIDIEastern Health Epworth Eastern Freemason's Hospital Goulburn Valley HealthNorthern HealthPeter MacCallum Cancer CentreRoyal Adelaide HospitalRoyal Melbourne Hospital/Melbourne HealthRoyal Children's Hospital/Murdoch Children's Research InstituteSouthern Health St Vincent's (Public) Hospital & St Vincent’s PrivateThe Royal Women's Hospital Western Health

Research InstitutesAustralian Catholic UniversityLudwig Institute for Cancer Research Ltd St Vincent’s InstituteTissupath LtdUniversity of MelbourneVictorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium Victorian Transplantation and Immunogenetics Service Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Pharmaceutical CompaniesBiotaCSL LtdGlaxoSmithKlineNovartisRoche

Our TeamI couldn’t do it without my team!

• Alan Lo

• Andrew Spiers

• Andrew Underwood (me)

• Daniel Micevski

• David Perkins

• Jin Park

• Melvin Luong

For more...Infinite Innovation

• For a deeper look into the potential innovations;

– http://www.vpac.org– http://www.linkedin.com/company/VPAC – https://www.facebook.com/VPACltd– http://twitter.com/VPACltd

Don’t forget, none of this could be possible without our key partners and the clinicians they support!

– Victorian Cancer BioBank– BioGrid Australia – Bio21 Institute– HVP Australia– Ludwig Institute– Dell & AMD