IV European Congress for Medical and Biomedical Engineering 2008
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The Worldwide Challenge to Physiome and Systems Biology
The 2nd MEI International Symposium
Next 7-9 December, 2007, in Osaka, Japan, the international symposium The Worldwide Challenge to Physiome and Systems Biology - sponsored by the Center for Advanced Medical Engineering and Informatics (Osaka University) - will be held.
[...] The development of the physiome project and systems biology will change conventional medicine, which has been based upon experience and expectation, into "predictive medicine" that will have the capacity to develop solutions based upon prior understanding of the dynamic mechanims and the quantitative logic of human physiology. More...
During the session World-wide movement of physiome and systems biology-related projects, Marco Viceconti, member of the organising committe, in quality of scientific coordinator of the EU funded project STEP: A strategy for the Europhysiome, which lasted from January 2006 to March 2007 and ended with the production of the VPH Roadmap, willl give a speech about the EuroPhysiome and the STEP action.
In the same session, Ilias Jakovis, EC Deputy Head, ICT for Health, DG Information Society and Media, will make a presentation of the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) initiative within Europe.