Independent · Open · Cross-disciplinary
Where single disciplines see complexity, we see structure.
Vitacore Research Collaborative is an independent research institution dedicated to the hardest unsolved problems in medicine, physiology, earth sciences, and materials science — bringing formal verification, causal reasoning, and information-theoretic analysis to bear where experimental science alone has not been sufficient.
The unifying thread
A single method, applied across every domain.
Vitacore's research is unified not by a single domain but by a single method: the application of formal computational modelling — finite state machines, probabilistic timed automata, formal verification, and information-theoretic analysis — to physical and biological systems currently described by ad hoc statistical methods.
We do not compete with domain specialists. We provide the formal foundations that specialists lack.
Priority research
Five hard, unsolved problems.
Each is clinically or scientifically urgent, has resisted solution for decades despite significant effort, and is tractable using the formal and computational methods that define Vitacore's identity.
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HP-01
Formal verification of AI clinical decision support
No deployed clinical AI system has a mathematical proof of safety. The MHRA 2026 framework demands one.
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HP-02
Non-invasive intracranial pressure
Neurosurgeons still drill skulls in 2026. The gap is not sensors — it is signal fusion.
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HP-03
Pre-clinical sepsis trajectory
Eleven million deaths a year. Existing alarms fire after deterioration. The trajectory has never been formally modelled.
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HP-04
Information-theoretic limits of surface sensing
What is theoretically recoverable from the human body's surface? No-one has done the Shannon analysis.
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HP-05
Causal digital twin for clinical decision
Every hospital is buying correlation engines. None can answer the counterfactual.
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Sprint papers · 2026
In preparation.
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Technical Note · arXiv → European Radiology Experimental
Towards a Formal Signal Processing Specification for Photon-Counting CT Radiomics
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Opinion · bioRxiv → Briefings in Bioinformatics
Spatial Transcriptomics Cell Type Deconvolution as a Blind Source Separation Problem
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Perspective · medRxiv → npj Precision Oncology
Information-Theoretic Limits of Circulating Tumour DNA Detection
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