Welcome to CDAC

The Clinical Data Animation Center (CDAC), affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and MIT, conducts research to preserve and enhance brain health. Our focus spans critical neurological conditions including sleep disorders, dementia, epilepsy, and acute brain injuries. CDAC manages the Brain Data Science Platform (BDSP), an NIH-Approved Data Repository advancing collaborative, open science in neurology research.

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We develop mathematical models to clarify risk-benefit tradeoffs in medical decision-making, predict neurologic outcomes in critical care settings, and automate tasks in medicine previously performed only by clinical experts.

Our research emphasizes working with clinical data from large and heterogenous patient cohorts to ensure that our models work in the real world. Through the Brain Data Science Platform (BDSP), we’re building a comprehensive cloud-based repository of clinical neurology data and research code.

CDAC’s work is supported by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, American Academy of Neurology, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, and AWS.