The research program at the Medical Sciences Innocation Hub Program (MIH) started in April 2016, with the aim of developing personalized preventive medicine.

RIKEN is the hub and runs “RIKEN Hub for predictive and preventive precision medicine driven by big data” in the “Support program for starting up innovation hub” of the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), “RIKEN Healthcare and medical data platform project” and “Innovation platform for society 5.0” of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).

With the aim of developing personalized preventive medicine, this program will be collecting health-related data by collaborating with universities, hospitals and corporations and will analyze the data using AI technology to precisely assess the health status of individuals. We will contribute to individualized healthcare by using this AI technology and developing optimal drug discovery processes.