AMIGO: We care for rare.

Welcome to Project “AMIGO: Advanced Medical Intelligence for Guiding Omics-based Medicine”.

Contact

Nicola.Goetzenberger@med.uni-muenchen.de.

Our project, launched and managed by Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital in Munich, Germany, aims to give hope to children with rare diseases, known as the orphans of medicine. By integrating Machine Learning (ML) and following a decentralized approach, it will be possible to analyze and link children’s clinical and genetic data with the highest level of data security. The knowledge gained will be used to train an AI and thus help doctors around the world to diagnose and treat patients in an individual and personalized way.

Clinics

We bring cutting-edge technology to clinics, enabling creation of collaborative AI applications without any data sharing.

Developers

Using knowledge graphs we provide you with curated and preprocessed datasets so you can focus on building machine learning solutions.

Families

Helping our patients and their families is at the heart of our initiative. That is why our partners at the Dr von Hauner Children's Hospital are working on the SCIVIAS study and early diagnosis of rare diseases.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

AMIGO aims to support the increase and precision in diagnosing and treating every severe diseased child with the support of Machine Learning. On the long run, we want to ensure the evolution from pediatric rare diseases to general adult care. Therefore, paving the way to personalized medicine.​

… leading European Children’s Hospitals (Who we are | ECHO (echohospitals.org))

An innovative, self-sustaining ecosystem that includes all players in the healthcare system: clinics and their patients, the IT providers who support our decentralized approach, companies who can develop diagnostic tools and treatment approaches via federated learning, as well as pharmaceuticals and health insurance companies. European Union’s health industry will be strengthened to become competitive on a global level by collecting and using European patient data.

Currently we are aiming to build a consortium for IHI Call 9. For steeper progress we need: Experts in target-to-drug development, brilliant minds in Data-to-AI Development and Clinical Trial Support. We are also specifically looking for pharmaceutical companies that will develop a use case with us.

Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital

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Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital is the Pediatric Clinic of the University Hospital of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. It is a reference center for many children with severe, chronic or complex diseases. In addition to inpatient and outpatient treatment, everyday life is characterized by science and research.

Driven by the passion to improve clinical care for children with rare and common diseases, interdisciplinary research teams collaborate on a variety of themes centered on pediatric health issues. The focus is on studying biological factors governing child development as well as on designing innovative therapeutic strategies.

At Dr. von Hauner, one follows the believe that children also have a right to participate in medical progress. Therefore, the clinic, its physicians and medical staff work closely together with the patients and their families. The aim is to understand the basics of diseases to derive new ways of diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

Personalized, predictive and participatory precision medicine is the primary goal of the actions taken.

AMIGO

Advanced Medical Intelligence for Guiding Omics-based Medicine

Join us in integrating the potential of Artificial Intelligence into the healthcare sector. Project AMIGO is committed to applying federated machine learning and clinical knowledge graphs, so that children with rare diseases can receive a rapid diagnosis and targeted treatment.

Just because it is called rare, doesn’t mean it doesn’t affect us all.

Joint initiative of

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Logo Capgemini
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What is the 

Care-for-Rare

 foundation?

The Care-for-Rare Foundation is helping children with rare diseases. Children with rare diseases are the orphans of medicine. They are overshadowed in many ways: Odysseys from doctor to doctor and frequent misdiagnoses define their lives. Many rare diseases are still incurable. Only through increased research efforts and international cooperation can this fate be changed.

The Care-for-Rare Foundation helps across national borders to give children with rare diseases hope for a cure – regardless of their origin or financial means. It bases its commitment on the guiding principle of “recognize – understand – cure”.

Actions taken:

  • Promoting development of new therapies
  • Financing the further training of doctors and scientists
  • Raising awareness of rare diseases
  • Helps in individual cases through clinical treatment

The starting point for these activities is the Care-for-Rare Center at the Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital of the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich.

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