Today, the ability to produce vast amounts of bio-data has vastly outstripped our ability to sensibly make use of the data for decision making.
A key objective of BIOPATTERN is to address the problem of fragmentation in this key area by bringing together key researchers to create a critical mass of specialists to promote the development of computational intelligence methods underpinning e-Healthcare. The idea is to move away from local solutions to local problems and towards European wide solutions to European problems.
The main objectives are:
- Integration - to tackle and reduce fragmentation of existing research capacities in this area
- Virtual Research Institute - to create a new research community
- New opportunities - to identify how bioprofile could be exploited for healthcare, such as disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment
- Roadmap - to identify gaps in knowledge, key challenges and to initiate joint activities to address them.
- Standards - To identify technical and ethical issues on which guidelines and standards should be based with regard to the acquisition, transmission and analysis of a bioprofile
- Societal challenges - To contribute to finding solutions to some of the demanding societal challenges in healthcare.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.biopattern.org
Project co-ordinator:
University of Plymouth
Partners:
- University of Plymouth - Plymouth NHS Trust Hospitals - Aston University - University of Liverpool - University of Nottingham - Liverpool John Moores University - Nottingham Trent University - Sheffield Hallam University - BioElf Ltd - Gap Infomedia Ltd (UK)
- Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze - Universita Degli Studi Di Pisa - Instituto Nazionale Per Lo Studio Cura Dei Tumori, Milano - Universita Degli Studi Di Milano - Synapsis S. R. L (IT)
- University of Athens Medical School - Telecommunication Systems Institute - Technological Educational Institute of Crete - University of Crete, Medical Division - Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis - Hellenic Telecommunications & Telematics Applications Company SA (Forthnet) - Daedalus Informatics Ltd (GR)
- Neoventor Medicinsk Innovation AB - University College Boras (SE)
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Research & Development (BE)
- Stichting Katholieke Universiteit (NL)
- Instituto De Desenvolvimento De Novas Tecnologias - (UNINOVA) (PT)
- Ecological University of Bucharest (FI)
- University of Malta (MT)
Timetable: from 01/04 - 12/07
Total cost: € 12.800.000
EC funding: € 6.400.000
Instrument: NoE
Project Identifier: IST-2002-508803