VPAC presentation of capabilities and current solutions in Health & Life Science to our collaborative partners at the Victorian Cancer BioBank.

1. Health & Life Science
A tailored solution, to meet your needs

2. Introduction
Victorian Partnership For Advanced Computing LTD
• A Not for Profit “R&D Services” company
• Founded in 2000 by a consortium of universities
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• 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.”

3. Health & Life Science Initiatives
For 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

4. Advanced Computing Initiatives
To 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

5. Pairing Services, to Obtain Results
Using 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.”

6. Limitations Opportunities
Innovative, cost effective, results oriented
• Bridging the gaps
– Pairing experts
– Full Time professionals
• Providing solutions
– Prototyping
– Bleeding edge

7. Current Solutions
Infinite 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)

8. For more...
Infinite Innovation
Don’t forget, none of this could be possible without our partners
and the clinicians they support!
Key Partners Research Institutes
Victorian Cancer BioBank Australian Catholic University
BioGrid Australia Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research Ltd
Bio21 Institute St Vincent’s Institute
HVP Australia Tissupath Ltd
Dell & AMD University of Melbourne
Victorian Breast Cancer Research Consortium Victorian
Transplantation and Immunogenetics Service
Hospitals We Work With
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Austin Health
BakerIDI
Pharmaceutical Companies
Eastern Health Epworth Eastern Freemason's Hospital
Goulburn Valley Health Biota
Northern Health CSL Ltd
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre GlaxoSmithKline
Royal Adelaide Hospital Novartis
Royal Melbourne Hospital/Melbourne Health Roche
Royal Children's Hospital/Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Southern Health St Vincent's (Public) Hospital & St Vincent’s
Private
The Royal Women's Hospital Western Health

9. Our Team
I couldn’t do it without my team!
• Alan Lo • Daniel Micevski
• Andrew Spiers • David Perkins
• Andrew Underwood (me) • Jin Park
• Melvin Luong

10. 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