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• Council publishes Chapter VI draft of the Medical Devices Regulation

  On 04 July 2014, the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union published a document addressed to the Working Party on Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices in relation to the Council’s modifications to the Proposal for a Medical Devices Regulation.

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• Commission urges national governments to embrace potential of Big Data

  The European Commission further reiterated its support for Big Data in a press release published on its website on the 2 July 2014 entitled: “Commission urges governments to embrace potential of Big Data”

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• New document on Data Protection released by The Council Presidency

  This document sets out the current Council thinking on the Data Protection Regulation and dated, 30 June 2014, constitutes the most up to date information the GDPR currently available.

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• Book "Computational Biomedicine: Modelling the Human Body" now for sale

  Carefully edited by leaders in the field (Professors P. Coveney, V. Diaz, P. Hunter and M. Viceconti), "Computational Biomedicine" is the first text to make this burgeoning area of multidisciplinary research accessible to the student reader, bringing together the fields of mathematics, physics, computer science, biology, engineering and medicine to provide a single, coherent view of the subject.

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• Apply for the VPHi Student membership

  It is now much easier to become a VPHi student member: it only costs €10 and it gives you access to plenty of interesting initiatives. Find out more…

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• Avicenna Event 2 – Rome 6th June 2014

  The Avicenna project, supported by the European Commission, is developing the pathway towards the modernisation of the clinical trials process by introducing complex computer simulations, that shall make the process quicker, more efficient and less expensive.

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