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VPHOP at the ICT-BIO 2008 conference
As part of the ICT-BIO 2008 conference, the VPHOP consortium organised a session on the musculoskeletal system that showcased the state of the art in integrative biomedical research worldwide with respect to this important part of human pathophysiology. Speakers from Europe, Japan and United States presented very exciting developments such as the use of the Petaflop Japanese supercomputer, capable of 1000 billion operation every second, to simulate the human skeleton at an unsurpassed level of detail, or the prediction of neuromuscular control the astronauts will use while walking on Mars.
VPHOP participate to the VPH Concertation Meeting
Representatives of the 15 research projects funded in the second call of FP7 under the topic “Virtual Physiological Human” met in Brussels on 22nd October 2008 in the so-called VPH Concertation Meeting. The meeting proposed by the e-health unit of the DG INFSO, which is in charge of the VPH projects, was intended as an opportunity for exchanging perspectives, agree on common goals, and identify possible collective actions. The workgroups conclusions suggest that a significant coordination work is required.
VPH Concertation Day Report - Published
Now available the report of the Concertation Meeting which gave the representatives from EC-projects - funded within the Seventh Framework (FP7) VPH Initiative, and VPH-related projects funded during Framework Six (FP6) - the first opportunity to gather and discuss about future multidisciplinary collaboration between the ICT and life sciences research communities.
IUPS nominates its next President
2009-2013: Professor Denis Noble, President of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS)
European prize awarded for 3D patient modeling
Professor Nicholas Ayache, a scientific pioneer in computational medical image analysis, was awarded one of the largest international prizes in science
Stand Tall - Speak out for your bones
The two-year World Osteoporosis Day campaign aims at encouraging the global osteoporosis movement to mobilize public opinion to generate change in osteoporosis healthcare policies.
Osteoporosis in the European Union in 2008
Ten years of progress and ongoing challenges. A decade after the landmark 1998 report and recommendations by the European Commission and as a comparison to the 2001 EU 'audit' report, this work, published in October 2008, provides a snapshot of the progress and challenges in osteoporosis management in the EU.
ICCB2009: Final call for Papers!
All aspects of computational bioengineering
VPHOP at Europe for Patients
Marco Viceconti, coordinator of the VPHOP integrated project, gave an invited talk at the “Europe for patients” conference, organised at the Institut Pasteur in Paris. Dr. Viceconti described the prospective that VPHOP research and technological develop is likely to open for patients affected by osteoporosis.
Mimics Innovation Awards 2009 launched
Many researchers use Mimics for processing, editing and segmenting their scanner image data. Materialise is proud that Mimics' powerful, user-friendly design has lifted so many interesting projects to a higher level. Every year the Mimics Innovation Awards support top level research conducted with the assistance of Mimics.
VPHOP Presented at TCN CAE 2008
The TCN CAE 2008 International Conference on Simulation Based Engineering and Sciences was held in Venice on 16-17 October 2008. This year an entire parallel session was dedicated to biomedical applications, and Marco Viceconti, coordinator of the VPHOP project, was selected as keynote speaker for that session.
@neurIST Open Symposium
All FP6 and FP7 VPH community projects were invited
Dr Alex Stacoff, co-founder of i-FAB, died
An untimely loss to his family, his friends, and to the scientific community
Knee Arthroplasty: From Early Intervention to Revision - An IMechE conference
Call for Papers!
“The future of MAF”: the day after
On October 10th, in Bologna, a meeting day entitled “The future of MAF” was held, focused on the Multimod Application Framework (MAF), an Open Source software which enables the rapid development of the applications for the so called “computer aided medicine”.
1st i-FAB Congress - follow up
Abstracts of the Keynote and Oral presentations, together with two top scoring posters have been now published in the Special Issue of the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
The Virtual Physiological Human: Building a Framework for Computational Biomedicine
Two themed issues on The Virtual Physiological Human were recently published
Down for maintenance
Down of Biomedtown on Wednesday - October, 1st
The skeleton of the European Virtual Human is “made in Italy”
Sept 1st, 2008: the VPHOP integrated project officially started
Computer models predict the risk of fracture in clinics, but research is already a step ahead
The University of Sheffield registered a clinical trial