EU-STANDS4PM Start 2019

Accessible and shareable health information is crucial for good healthcare. Scientists of the Scientific Databases and Visualization group (SDBV) at HITS are involved in the project “EU-Standards for Personalised Medicine” (EU-STANDS4PM), which encourages collaborative research to accelerate health science. Funded by the EU program H2020, the three-year project will establish a pan-European expert forum to assess and evaluate national standardization strategies for health data integration and data-driven computer modeling approaches. Another object of EU-STANDS4PM is to harmonize existing standards and develop new universal cross-border guidelines and recommendations for in silico methodologies applied in personalized medicine, thus allowing professionals to share information and best practices.

The network of 16 partners from 8 European countries – among them European collaborative research projects and infrastructures, normative and regulatory agencies and industry – is coordinated by Marc Kirschner from the Research Centre Jülich (Germany). Leader of the HITS research group “Scientific Databases and Visualization” (SDBV) Wolfgang Müller will co-lead the EU-STANDSPM work package “Data access, outreach and governance” together with Stephan Beck from the University College London (UCL). SDBV team member Martin Golebiewski will share the lead of “Data sources and standards for predictions in personalized medicine” with ELIXIR director Niklas Blomberg (EMBL-EBI).

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