Prof. Grigory Osipov, Head of the Department of Control Theory and Dynamics of Systems at the Institute of IT, Mathematics and Mechanics of Lobachevsky University, is a founding member of a large international consortium which is developing multiscale systems medicine, an emerging transdisciplinary field bridging medicine, mathematics, data science and computer science to treat a range of human diseases that currently have no effective cures.

Human health and disease are characterized by a complex interplay of multiple factors. Recent developments in science and technology make possible an analysis of the wealth of hugely diverse biomedical data related to multiple spatiotemporal and organizational scales (from molecules, to cells, to tissues, to organs, to whole-body systems, to patient groups and families, to human populations, to human lifestyles and the environment) leading to insights into this interplay of factors. This may help solve the massive medical challenges of modern societies.

The aim of the OPEN MULTISCALE SYSTEMS MEDICINE (OpenMultiMed) COST Action is to gather a critical mass of international researchers and coordinate them as a team that develops and evaluates a transdisciplinary framework for multiscale systems medicine, consisting of novel concepts, methodologies and technologies. In the current composition, the Action network institutions come from 18 countries: Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Russia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and the UK. Russia is represented with two institutions: ITMO University and Lobachevsky University.

A key element of this Action is the education and training of MSc/PhD students as well as post-docs. The Action is planning to actively involve young researchers from each Action institute and the Work Plan includes workshops and training schools.