The workshop will bring together high level experts from health-related industries, health researchers, and representatives of HPC industries and supercomputing centres.
Final Programme
High Performance Computing in Health Research
Brussels, 1 - 2 October 2014
Venue: CDMA, rue du Champ de Mars 21, 1050 Brussels
High Performance Computing (HPC) is a crucial technology for addressing complex issues in health research. This workshop aims to identify current and future health research requirements for HPC and will explore mechanisms of addressing them through co-operation of relevant stakeholders. The workshop will bring together high level experts from health-related industries, health researchers, and representatives of HPC industries and supercomputing centres. Presentations and panel debates will explore key challenges facing health research, the role of HPC and future actions. Research and innovation opportunities like Centre of Excellence in HPC for health research will also be explored.
Day 1
13.30-14.00 Registration
14:00 – 14:30 Welcome address: HPC Strategy and Health Research
[Thierry van Der Pyl, Director "Excellence in Science" DG CONNECT, European Commission]
[Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Director "Health", DG Research & Innovation, European Commission]
[Paul Timmers, Director "Sustainable & Secure Society" DG CONNECT, European Commission]
14:30 – 14:45 HPC Centre of Excellence: An opportunity
[Aniyan Varghese, DG Connect, European Commission]
14:45 – 15:05 Can HPC help answering medically relevant questions?
[Jesper Tegner, Karolinska University Hospital]
15:05 – 15:25 Europe needs HPC in Drug Discovery
[Andrea R. Beccari, Drug Discovery Platform Manager, Dompé]
15:25 – 15:45 HPC and in silico clinical trials: AVICENNA roadmap
[Marco Viceconti - Avicenna ]
15:45 – 16:00 The role of PRACE for Health Research
[Sanzio Bassini- PRACE Chair]
16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 – 16:30 The needs for HPC in life sciences and health research
[Steven Newhouse, European Bioinformatics Institute, Member of BioMedBridges]
16:30 – 17:30 Panel: Current needs for HPC in health research
Panel moderator: Alf Game (Chairman of the Board of ELIXIR)
Participants:
- Charles Auffray, (Director of the European Institute for Systems Biology & Medicine, Member of the Coordinating Action Systems Medicine CASyM) https://www.casym.eu)
- Bart Vannieuwenhuyse (Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) project EMIF http://www.emif.eu)
- Felix Schurmann (Human Brain Project (HBP) https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/)
- Martin Hofmann-Apitius (Head of the Department of Bioinformatics Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing)
- Hans Hofstraat (Vice-President & Member of the Healthcare Program Board at Philips Research, the Netherlands)
- Lucia Monaco (Chief Scientific Officer, Fondazione Telethon, Italy)
17:45 Cocktail
Day 2
09:00 – 09:15 Making the most of imaging data: the example of brain imaging
[Nikolaos Koutsouleris, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Coordinator of PRONIA]
09:15 – 10:15 Panel: Can existing infrastructures answer identified HPC needs for health research?
Panel Moderator: Wouter Spek (EuroBioForum)
Participants:
- David Manset (CEO of GNUBLA; neuGRID eInfrastructure www.neugrid.eu)
- Adriano Henney (Director, Virtual Liver Network (VLN) http://www.virtual-liver.de)
- Erwin Laure (Director of the Centre of HPC, KTH, Stockholm)
- Modesto Orozco (Group Leader, Molecular Modelling and BioInformatics)
- Peter Coveney (EUDAT (www.eudat.eu))
- Wiro Niessen (Euro-BioImaging (http://www.eurobioimaging.eu))
10:15 – 10:30 Keynote speech on future challenges
[Magda Chlebus (Director of Science Policy, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations)]
10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:45 Panel: Future activities and implementation
Panel co-moderators: Gitte Moos Knudsen (Chairman of the Neurobiology Research Unit, Director of the Centre for Integrated Molecular Brain Imaging)
Ian Cree (Yvonne Carter Professor of Pathology, Warwick Medical School)
Participants:
- Bernadette Andrietti (European Technology Platform for High Performance Computing (ETP4HPC) www.etp4hpc.eu)
- Peter Longreen (Elixir: European Bioinformatics infrastructure http://www.elixir-europe.org)
- Yann le Cam (Chief Executive Officer of the European Organisation for Rare Diseases, Eurordis)
- Jan Bogaerts (Vice Director of the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer)
- Gunaretnam Rajagopal, (VP, Global Head of Computational Sciences, Discovery Sciences at Janssen)
- Yi-Ke Guo (Professor of Computing Science, Imperial College London; Innovative Medicines Initiative project eTRIKS)
11:45 – 12:30 Synthesis and next steps
[EC representative and Rapporteur]
12:30 Sandwich lunch