“Big data, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence (AI) will help us understand how the immune system fights pathogens. This will give more accurate data on the substances and cells involved in improving immune function, and will make a significant contribution to the discovery of new substances that enhance immune function, enabling the age of 120 years of human life. Adding blockchain technology will make it easier to develop new drugs.” Myung-Hwan Cho(Photo), the Professor of the Department of Biological Sciences, Konkuk University, had an interview with the Munhwa ilbo, emphasized the importance of understanding advanced science and technology in order to apply the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution to the improvement of immune function and new drug development.
Professor Cho was an AIDS specialist who studied microbiology and immunology and was a member of the UNITAID. He has served twice as Chairman of the Asia-Pacific AIDS Society, from 2005 to 2009, and from 2017 until present. He also collaborated on AIDS with Dr. Baruch Blumberg, who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine. He also studied AI, robots and blockchains at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and co-founded Nexol Biotech Co., Ltd. and Celltrion with CEO Jung-jin Seo.Professor Cho reported that the AIDS drug was effective in administering the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19). “It is a medicine for AIDS called Kaletra. "It has two ingredients, pinavir and ritonavir," he said. "The Chinese government recently recommended using AbbVie from the US, Kaletra and Aluvia, to treat novel corona virus. However, we need to keep watching whether these AIDS medications will be effective in treating novel corona virus.” "In the war against disease, there is a revolution in the medical arena by AI, robots, blockchain, big data, the Internet of Things," he says. Machine learning AI combined with big data will help to make treatment choices, and diagnostic tests can extract the data needed for machine learning to help patients anticipate response to treatment. It will improve our health and extend human life. This is why immunity and the Fourth Industrial Revolution are so closely related.” “Blockchain, AI, and IoT technologies will help data production, management and analysis, and manage patients, shortening clinical trials and reducing drug development costs. It can also be applied to the development of novel corona virus's drugs or vaccines.”Original articla is available at Munhwa Ilbo