ITTM (IT for Translational Medicine)

Core business

ITTM (Information Technology for Translational Medicine) S.A. is a spin-off company of the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine (LCSB) and is set-up to satisfy a growing demand of both pharmaceutical and biotech companies, public research institutions and private foundations in the field of translational medical research.

ITTM S.A. provides data integration and knowledge management solutions and services to all bio-medical research areas. It focuses especially on translational medicine studies and clinical trials, in which heterogeneous data need to be curated, linked and integrated. ITTM S.A. provides cutting-edge clinical and multiomics data analysis, visualisation and text-mining solutions.

One of the biggest challenges in the field of translational medicine in pharma and biotech industry is the integration of heterogeneous data generated in multi-centre clinical trials and via multi-layer lab measurements especially in clinical environments.

Products & services

The services that are offered by ITTM S.A. help these stakeholders to make use of biological and medical data sets that are not accessible to standard data analysis due to their complexity and variability, seeking for new insights into disease progression, patient stratification, safety interpretation, biomarker discovery and disease taxonomic classification.

Uniquely, all services and data will be hosted in a state-of-the-art data centre in Luxembourg ensuring highest security standards. ITTM offers comprehensive services in the following fields:

• curation and transformation of biomedical data to follow international standards;
• analysis of biomedical data and customised software development;
• custom software developments for data mining processes and visualisation tools;
• hosting of data and access to the query and analysis platform;
• archiving and long term storage of data according to legal frameworks.

Major HealthTech projects

The company founders have long standing experience and expertise in these services due to successful participation and contribution to large translation medicine consortia such as the IMI-eTRIKS (European Translational Information & Knowledge Management Services) and IMIAETIONOMY.

Technical / technological capabilities

The company offers a highly integrated BioIT (ICT) service portfolio, ranging from data curation and cleansing, hosting of knowledge platforms, implementation and development of dedicated software and data analysis pipelines to final long-term backup and archiving of data.