ICT BIO 2008 :: Concertation Meeting
Concertation Meeting
A Concertation Meeting with VPH related projects of DG Information Society will take place on October 22, 2008 - all day. It will be mainly organised by the newly funded project VPH-NoE.
The networking part of the meeting was divided into the following groups:
- VPH modelling and integration
- Data access and Grid infrastructure
- VPH application and software
- Training
- Communication and dissemination
The concertation meetings seeked to:
- Facilitate the networking between projects and experts working in related research areas.
- Provide better visibility to the project activities.
- Identify synergies and common area of interests that could be tackled collectively by groups of projects.
In this specific meeting, particular focus will be made on the VPH Network of Excellence.
Three parallel focussed workshops (identifying 2-3 key challenges/possible solutions in each area) have been set:
- Workshop 1: The potential impact of VPH research
- Workshop 2: VPH Implementation Issues
- Workshop 3: VPH Training, Dissemination and Networking
Projects participating to the meeting:
FP6 projects
- @neurIST - Integrated biomedical informatics for the management of cerebral aneurysms (factsheet)
- ACGT - Advancing Clinico Genomic Trials on Cancer (factsheet)
- ASSIST - Association Studies Assisted by Semantic and Inference Technologies (factsheet)
- EuResist - Integration of viral genomics with clinical data to predict response to anti-HIV treatment (factsheet)
- Health-e-Child - (factsheet)
- I-Know - Integrating Information from Molecule to Man: Knowledge Discovery Accelerates Drug Development and Personalized Treatment in Acute Stroke (factsheet)
- ImmunoGrid - The European Virtual Human Immune System Project (factsheet)
- LHDL - Livig Human Digital Library: Interactive digital library services to access collections of complex biomedical data on the musculoskeletal apparatus (factsheet)
- Multi Knowledge - Creating new knowledge in networks of medical research (factsheet)
- Sealife - A semantic grid browser for the life sciences applied to the study of infectious diseases (factsheet)
- Share - Supporting and structuring HealthGrid Activities & Research in Europe: developing a roadmap (factsheet)
- STEP - A Strategy for the EuroPhysiome (factsheet)
- VIROLAB - A Virtual Laboratory for Decision Support in Viral Disease Treatment (factsheet)
FP7 projects
- Action-Grid - International cooperative action on grid computing and biomedical informatics between the European Union, Latin America, the Western Balkans and North Africa (factsheet)
- ARCH - Patient specific image-based computational modelling for improvement of short- and long-term outcome of vascular access in patient on hemodialysis therapy (factsheet)
- ContraCancrum - Clinically Oriented Translational Cancer Multilevel Modelling (factsheet)
- euHeart - Personalised and intergrated cardiac care: Patient-specific Cardiovascular Modelling and Simulation for In Silico Disease Understanding and Management and for Medical Device Evaluation and Optimization (factsheet)
- HAMMAM - Highly Accurate Breast Cancer Diagnosis through Integration of Biological Knowledge, Novel Imaging Modalities, and Modelling (factsheet)
- IMPPACT - Image-based Multi-scale Physiological Planning for Ablation Cancer Treatment (factsheet)
- NeoMark - ICT Enabled Prediction of Cancer Reoccurrence (factsheet)
- PASSPORT - Patient Specific Simulation and PreOperative Realistic Training for liver surgery (factsheet)
- preDICT - Computational Prediction of Drug Cardiac Toxicity (factsheet)
- PredictAD - From Patient Data to Personalised Healthcare in Alzheimer's Disease (factsheet)
- VPH NoE - Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (factsheet)
- VPH2 - Virtual Pathological Heart of the Virtual Physiological Human (factsheet)
- VPHOP - Osteoporotic Virtual Physiological Human (factsheet)
This meeting was restricted to project representatives.
The report of the VPH Concertation Day, held in conjunction with the ICTBIO 2008 meeting, jointly organised by the EC and VPH NoE project is now available. This includes:
- General Meeting Summary
- Review of Workshop 1: Clinical and Industrial Applications of the VPH
- Review of Workshop 2: A Perspective on Data and the VPH Initiative
- Review of Workshop 3: Development of a Common EU training framework
- Plenary session minutes
Follow-up actions, resulting from Workshops 1-3, will be pursued by VPH NoE representatives together with representatives of VPH-I and VPH-related projects. These are described in full in the document, and include:
- Preparation of dissemination material on the VPH-I, targeting the clinical community
- Establishment of a VPH Standards Working Group
- Organisation of a pilot Industrial Concertation Event, for VPH research
- Establishment of a VPH Data Working Group
- Preparation of a White Paper on Sharing and Reuse of Clinical Data
- Establishment of a VPH-I Working Group
- Publication of a VPH-I newsletter
If you would like to know more about the activities above, please review the meeting report and contact the persons referenced as responsible for each workshop and/or task (all details are noted at the end of each workshop section).
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| Last update by the Editor (INFSO-ICTBIO2008(at)ec.europa.eu): 24/11/08 |