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Sign on to the DISCIPULUS forum
It is now available an on-line forum where anyone can contribute to the debate on the DISCIPULUS road-mapping exercise. Do not miss the chance to express your opinion.
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DISCIPULUS: Structure of the First Draft of the Roadmap
The first draft of the roadmap illustrates the vision of the Digital Patient with the goal of enhancing medical practice and patient care.
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5th ARTreat newsletter now available
ARTreat is an EU-funded eHealth FP7 collaborative R&D project aiming at developing a multi-level, patient-specific computational model of the cardiovascular system for atherogenesis progression and propagation. Periodically ARTreat issues a newsletter to give information about the latest development in the project. You can now read the 5th issue.
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The Virtual Liver Network keynote debate during SBMC conference
On Tuesday, 10th July in Leipzig, the VPH Institute President, Denis Noble, and Sydney Brenner proposed and opposed respectively the motion that “There is no privileged level of causation: an organism is not defined by its genome”.
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Virtual Physiological Human on TEDxSheffield
Wearing his double hat of both Executive Director of the VPH Institute and Director of the new Insigneo Research Institute, Prof Viceconti gave a 9 minutes talk on "The Virtual Physiological Human or Why computer simulation is our best hope to understand life".
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Policy Affair Work Group established
At the last Board of Directors meeting (Paris May 24th, 2012), it was formalized the establishment of the so called “Policy Affair Work Group” which will coordinate the future policy activities of the Institute. The Work Group has now been formed and it will kick off with a first teleconference on Friday the 13th of June.
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