29 April 2026

How building your Digital Twin would revolutionize medicine and change your life

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This talk explores the emerging science and technology of digital human twins—virtual, data-driven replicas of individual people that model biological processes from molecules to entire organ systems. These digital twins are envisioned as tools to transform medicine from reactive to truly predictive, personalized, and preventive. A digital twin could help tailor therapies to an individual, test drugs in silico (in a computer) before real-world application, and forecast optimal diet or lifestyle choices for health maintenance or disease prevention. 

Digital twins wouldn’t just benefit individual patients but could also inform population-level health strategies and push medicine towards a future where health interventions are tailored before disease occurs.
 
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Dr Roger Highfield

Science Museum Group

Dr Roger Highfield is the Science Director at the Science Museum Group. A journalist, author and MRC member, he was the first person to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble.
He was the Science Editor of the Daily Telegraph for two decades and the Editor of New Scientist between 2008 and 2011. He has written seven books and had thousands of articles published in newspapers and magazines.

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Prof Peter Coveney

Peter Coveney is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Member of Academia Europaea, Professor of Physical Chemistry and Director of the Centre for Computational Science at University College London. He has published three books for the general reader, The Arrow of Time, Frontiers of Complexity and Virtual You.

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