The Living Human Project (LHP) was initiated by a networking initiative called BioNet that a small group of European researchers promoted in 2002.

The LHP had difficulties to found the resources to create the necessary infrastructure, and thus for some years it operated a low intensity under the Biomechanics European Laboratory heading. A complete story of LHP can be found here.

With the launch of the Living Human Digital Library Project, LHP has now the resources to develop and validate the technological infrastructure that will make possible to collect all available resources (data, models, etc.) into a coherent repository of the musculoskeletal physiome. LHDL is expected to finish by the end of 2008, but some repository services should be made available much earlier.

In the meanwhile IOR and ULB are starting a systematic collection of anatomical and functional observations at different dimensional scales all over the musculoskeletal apparatus. The first datasets should be available in 2007.

You can find more information on the LHP and the LHDL projects in the Reception Room of the LHDL Building here in Biomed Town.

Fact-Sheet

• Acronym: LHP, LHDL
• Scope: Musculoskeletal physiome
• Location: Europe
• Coordinator: Marco Viceconti
• Home Page: http://www.livinghuman.org
• Approx. Budget: 2,500,000 USD (including LHDL)
• Main Sponsoring Institution: European Commission