The conference, jointly organised by the European Commission DG Information Society and Media and DG Research with the support of three roadmapping projects of DG INFSO (SYMBIOMATICS, SHARE & STEP), aimed to identify the grand challenges that lie at the cross roads of Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) research and Biomedical Sciences research.

Opened by a video message from Vivian Reding, the Commissioner of Information Society and Media, followed by Denis Noble, by one of the fathers of the European Physiome research, who gave an enlighting plenary lecture, the conference was animated by many podium presentations, given by an impressive list of world-class experts.

The main result of the conference was the large consensus reached by most experts that the Virtual Physiological Human is the future of biomedical research, and should have a central place in the forthcoming 7th Framework programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration activities by DG of Information Society and Media and by DG for Research.

You can find everything on this conference, including presentations, webcasts, press releases, photo gallery at the conference web site.

For a comment on the event, and some unofficial pictures, click here.