STEP

STEP: a Strategy for The EuroPhysiome is a coordination action partially supported by the European Commission. It aims to provide a roadmap to the development of the Virtual Physiological Human. STEP represents a collective European response to the individual actions by creating an integrated framework - EuroPhysiome - which, while remaining true to the overall physiome concept, can accelerate the progress of the European teams by avoiding redundancy, enhancing compatibility, identifying deliverables and time scales, etc.

The action, that is expected to involve most stakeholders, including researchers, clinicians, and industry representatives, is steered by a consortium of 9 partners:

1. University of Luton (LUT)
2. Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli (IOR)
3. Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
4. University of Sheffield (USFD)
5. Aalborg Hospital (AAS)
6. University of Oxford (UOXF)
7. University of Nottingham (NOT)
8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - LaMI (CNRS)
9. University College London (UCL)

All the activities of the STEP action are hosted by Biomed Town, which provides the STEP project Infrastructure.

The main scope of STEP is to write, through a consensus process, a research and technological development RoadMap toward the Virtual Physiological Human.