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FP7 funding in ICT – Virtual Physiological Human
by Jean-François Desvignes-Hicks
The ICT call FP7-ICT-2011-9, which will open on 19 January 2012 and close on 17 April 2012, targets projects in Virtual Physiological Human research (topic ICT-2011.5.2 on page 68 of the 2012 ICT work programme). The European Commission has earmarked €3m to fund the participation of research organisations from non-European industrialised countries, including Australia. The total budget for this topic is €68m and 4% is reserved for these countries.
More information about the call:
Projects will be submitted by European consortia with partners from Australia to cover the following topics:
- Patient-specific predictive computer-based models and simulation of major diseases integrating medical, biological and environmental data. Preference will be given to proposals that manage to explore the interaction and integration of environmental factors with medical and biological factors enabling the development of predictive models and simulation for understanding the evolution and progression of major diseases.
- Development of ICT tools, services and infrastructure to obtain more elaborate and reusable multi-scale models (e.g. models of diseases, organs) and larger repositories to show benefits of having both the data and models readily available.
- Early demonstrators and proof of concept of digital representations of health status of patients integrating different patient-specific data and models of organs into a more coherent representation of a “Digital Patient”. Innovative digital representations of the health status of patients based on relevant data and models (medical, anatomical, physiological and genetic, etc), are visualised and represented in 4D models and usable for care, personalised prevention and research. Note: this topic covers demonstration activities, only funded at 50% by the European Commission.
This call in Virtual Physiological Human is the 5th call open in FP7 and the European Commission already supports 32 projects in this domain. For this current call, the Commission expects proposals to leverage this investment and build from existing projects. FEAST strongly encourages interested research groups from Australia to link with partners in Europe already engaged in such projects. We recommend seeking information and find potential partners from the following websites:
- Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE): www.vph-noe.eu
- Biomed Town: www.biomedtown.org
