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| A panel dialogue as a part of the symposium in Hà Nội on December 3. — Photo courtesy of the organiser |
HÀ NỘI — The fast rise of digital know-how, synthetic intelligence (AI), gene know-how and biomaterials is reshaping world well being care, marking what experts describe as a pivotal second for Việt Nam to speed up the applying of science and know-how in well being care and safety.
Participants heard this at a world symposium themed Advances in Disease Detection, Diagnosis and Treatment in Hà Nội on December 3.
The symposium is a part of the Science for Life symposia below the framework of the 2025 VinFuture Sci-Tech Week, held in Hà Nội from December 2 to six.
Speaking on the occasion, Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Training below the Ministry of Health Nguyễn Ngô Quang affirmed that the Ministry has recognized science and know-how as a key driving pressure to enhance the standard of medical examination and treatment and strengthen the capability of the well being system.
According to Dr Quang, in 2025, humanity continues to face rising and complicated world well being burdens. The incidence of non-communicable illnesses, significantly most cancers, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, continues to rise sharply in many areas. Re-emerging and new infectious illnesses put strain on well being methods, particularly in the context of local weather change, which will increase the danger of epidemics.
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| Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Training below the Ministry of Health, Nguyễn Ngô Quang, speaks on the symposium. — Photo courtesy of the organiser |
Quang confused that antibiotic resistance is approaching alarming ranges, threatening to reverse most of the medical achievements of the previous century. Disparities in entry to well being companies between nations and inhabitants teams have gotten more and more evident, creating an pressing want for innovation to ship extra exact, efficient and sustainable medical options.
However, Quang mentioned unprecedented alternatives are rising from the fast enlargement of digital know-how, AI, gene know-how and biomaterials in disease diagnosis and treatment. From phage therapies to fight drug resistance to the applying of 3D printing know-how in surgical procedure, new breakthroughs in listening to science and superior biomedical traits are key analysis instructions that the Vietnamese well being care sector is prioritising to entry and apply.
“I do hope that today’s discussion will not only stop at academic exchange, but also be the beginning of many extensive cooperations between Việt Nam and the world’s leading research institutes, universities and hospitals,” Quang said. “This will be an important driving force to help us access advanced technologies, conduct joint research and bring scientific advances closer to Vietnamese patients.”
According to Precedence Research, the worldwide precision drugs market is projected to achieve US$175 billion by 2030, paving the best way for a new period of precision and personalised well being care. These breakthroughs not solely improve the standard of diagnosis and treatment but additionally open prospects for bettering life expectancy, elevating high quality of life and reshaping well being care methods worldwide.
At the occasion, contributors heard that world well being care is witnessing exceptional progress pushed by the convergence of AI, biotechnology, huge knowledge and sensible medical units.
Speakers shared cutting-edge developments in the applying of know-how to well being care, together with precision drugs, next-generation prescription drugs, digital options for disease monitoring and administration and applied sciences enabling personalised treatment.
Professor Ana Belén Elgoyhen from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, offered new findings on therapeutic methods for listening to loss. Her analysis explains why many individuals are weak to listening to harm when uncovered to loud noise and opens new treatment pathways for tinnitus and listening to loss, that are more and more frequent in fashionable society.
The World Health Organisation estimates that greater than 1.5 billion individuals are at the moment residing with some extent of listening to loss. This determine is projected to extend considerably, with an estimated 2.5 billion individuals affected by 2050.
Without efficient interventions, the annual world value of listening to loss is estimated at greater than US$980 billion. The burden is especially heavy in low and middle-income nations, based on Professor Elgoyhen.
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| Professor Pascale Cossart from the Pasteur Institute of Paris speaks on the occasion. — Photo courtesy of the organiser |
Meanwhile, Professor Pascale Cossart of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, a pioneering an infection biologist famend for her groundbreaking analysis on how micro organism infect and survive inside host cells, shared findings on phage therapies in the struggle towards antibiotic resistance.
Professor Cosart’s phage remedy is a possible resolution, profiting from the excessive specificity and self-replication capacity of phages to destroy pathogenic micro organism with out affecting helpful micro organism. The remedy has at the moment been utilized in many nations resembling Georgia, Poland, France and the US.
Her analysis has not solely launched a new method to infectious illnesses but additionally paved the best way for focused therapies that would basically change future methods for disease prevention.
Professor Chuanbin Mao of the Chinese University of Hong Kong additionally shared new analysis on phage remedy involving cancer-hunting viruses.
According to Professor Mao, essentially the most promising software is using phage remedy to deal with bacterial infections and overcome antibiotic resistance. He added that phages might not at all times kill micro organism however can multiply on them, which has allowed the remedy’s scope to increase over time.
“Phage can diagnose and treat cancer, not just antibiotic resistance. The therapy’s application in the near future is to treat bacterial infections or diagnose cancer for use in hospitals, and in the future, to treat cancer in immunotherapy,” mentioned Professor Mao.
3D printing know-how, a breakthrough in orthopaedic surgical procedure
Professor Trần Trung Dũng of the Vinmec Health care System and VinUni University shared his achievement in making use of in-hospital 3D printing know-how as a breakthrough in orthopaedic surgical procedure.
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| Professor Trần Trung Dũng, Vinmec Healthcare System and VinUni University, speaks on the occasion. — Photo courtesy of the organiser |
Professor Dũng has pioneered using superior surgical methods and 3D medical applied sciences in Việt Nam, performing 1000’s of complicated procedures which have set new requirements in affected person care. The know-how permits the reconstruction of complicated bone buildings with excessive precision, serving to sufferers regain higher operate and enhance their high quality of life.
According to Professor Dũng, bone most cancers, particularly in complicated places such because the pelvis or femur, has lengthy been related to the “decision” of amputation as a result of that is the answer to protect the affected person’s life.
In current years, world drugs has developed bone regeneration methods utilizing individually designed steel implants, however the price is just too excessive for many sufferers to entry. As a consequence, as much as 30 per cent of sufferers with indications for amputation as a consequence of most cancers have refused surgical procedure.
The Vinmec medical crew, led by Professor Dũng, has labored with VinUni’s Centre for 3D Technology in Medicine to use specialised 3D methods in the treatment of bone most cancers sufferers. The use of 3D printing in drugs has delivered important advantages and life-changing outcomes for sufferers.
“Thanks to this technology, hospitals can use surgical instruments that fit Vietnamese anatomy at a cost much lower than imported products from the US or Europe. Of which, we successfully performed about 200 surgeries and supported 1,000 cases.”
“In addition, we also worked with domestic hospitals, oncology specialists, engineers and technicians from Japan, Korea and the United States to cooperate in research on material science, such as implants and 3D. We are currently continuing to collect clinical data to compare with research to find new directions, new and optimal solutions for the future,” added Professor Dũng.
The annual occasion is predicted to turn into a platform connecting scientists, healthcare experts, trade leaders and policymakers to share visions, promote collaboration and advance breakthrough options for human well being in the digital period. — VNS