Project Interview: Avicenna – A strategy for In Silico Clinical Trials/Avicenna

January 15, 2016January 15, 2016 Featured Articles, Other initiatives, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications

“Avicenna – A Strategy for in silico Clinical Trials” was a Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission. Avicenna was tasked with writing a Roadmap to define the strategy for developing In Silico Clinical Trials.

Project Interview: Combination therapy and biomarkers for Multiple Sclerosis – CombiMS

December 16, 2015December 16, 2015 Featured Articles, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications, Research projects

The main goal of the CombiMS project is to identify a new method for drug discovery based on systems biology and to validate this approach by identifying novel combination therapies for Multiple Sclerosis.

Project Interview: Profiling Responders In Antibody Therapies (PRIAT)

November 18, 2015November 18, 2015 Featured Articles, Other initiatives, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications

The main goal of the PRIAT Project consists in the development and use of HLA peptidome analysis for the study of interpatient and intrapatient variations in the immunopeptidome in response to antibody treatment.

EpiPredict – Epigenetic regulation of endocrine therapy resistance in breast cancer: A systems medicine approach to Predict treatment outcome

October 12, 2015October 12, 2015 Projects, Research projects

The mission of EpiPredict is to train a multidisciplinary cohort of young researchers in a new approach to fully exploit the epigenetics of complex diseases.

dsd-LIFE: sustainable improvement of clinical care for patients with disorders of sex development in the EU

August 24, 2015August 24, 2015 Projects, Research projects

The project dsd-LIFE aims for sustainable improvement of clinical care for patients with difference or disorder in sex development (DSD) on European level.

Project Interview: Coordination and Support Action (CSA) PerMed on Personalised Medicine (PM)

July 22, 2015November 13, 2015 Featured Articles, Other initiatives, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications

The PerMed consortium has 27 international partners representing key decision makers in research and research policy, industry, healthcare and patient organisations. The aim is to develop a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) to foster research and implementaion of suitable Personalized Medicine (PM) approaches in Europe and beyond.

The Vistera Project announcement

July 15, 2015July 28, 2015 Other initiatives, Projects

The Vistera Project aims at fostering the transition from the reactive practice of medicine to a more proactive management of health and wellness based on the principles of Systems P4 Medicine (Participatory, Personalized, Predictive and Preventive).

Project Interview: The Coordinating Action Systems Medicine (CASyM)

July 2, 2015February 1, 2016 Featured Articles, Other initiatives, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications

The Coordinating Action Systems Medicine (CASyM) will assess the basis for a European Systems Medicine paradigm and will assist the medical community in creating the foundation for a new perspective by focusing on an approach based on personalized, predictive, preventive and participatory (4P medicine).

MedBioinformatics EU project launched

June 26, 2015 Projects, Research projects

Under Horizon 2020, the EU has funded the 3.5 million project MedBioinformatics. This project aims to develop bioinformatics tools and applications for analysing the huge amount of data and knowledge generated in healthcare and biomedical research in order to facilitate translational research and precision medicine.

Project Interview: Systems medicine of chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease (SysmedIBD)

June 2, 2015November 13, 2015 Featured Articles, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications, Research projects

The main objective of SysmedIBD is to better understand chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease and to find new approaches for therapies.