Long Island University announced new research and innovation partnership with Dassault Systèmes in life sciences. The partnership will focus on research with high societal impact to advance the fields of pharmaceutical sciences, precision medicine and health care in the digital age. Research includes precision medicine using "Virtual Twins," or exact digital models of human anatomy being developed by LIU and Dassault Systèmes; pandemic preparedness and the digitization of healthcare; innovation in medical devices; and telemedicine through the "Internet of Things," or the exchange and analysis of data between physical objects that are connected digitally.

In addition, the partnership aims to provide a platform for technology transfer, or the sharing and transformation of inventions and scientific outcomes into commercialized products or services that benefit society. As part of this commitment to students, LIU has also been designated as a Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE Edu Center of Excellence. Dassault Systèmes created the global 3DEXPERIENCE Edu Centers of Excellence program in October 2021.

The program is aimed at providing students, professionals, learners, businesses and governments with a network of centers dedicated to experiential, lifelong learning with its 3DEXPERIENCE platform that enables the current and future workforce to accelerate the digital transformation of industry. LIU is the second Center of Excellence in the U.S. in addition to Purdue University, which opened as a Center of Excellence in Advanced Composites in 2020. Additional centers have been established in France, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, Brazil and India, and focus on various industry sectors.

The University's extended and ongoing partnership with Dassault Systèmes, world leader in 3D design and engineering software, is in line with its vision to advance academic excellence through innovation, provide extraordinary and distinctive experiences to students, and create solutions for a sustainable global future. Forged in 2019, the partnership provides LIU students with hands-on experience using cutting-edge artificial intelligence and digital engineering technologies, and to collaborate on multidisciplinary research in the life sciences. In 2021, the University opened a simulation laboratory that allows students to use Dassault Systèmes' patented 3D, augmented reality and virtual reality software to conduct experiential research, education and training.

The laboratory is used in several areas of study, including artificial intelligence, robotics, virtual reality gaming, cybersecurity, data analytics, and drug discovery and development. LIU also employs Dassault Systèmes' cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform in classrooms across the University.