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Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation pledges USD287 million to HIV research

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a USD287 million (€227.6 million) donation to fund research into HIV vaccine development. A total of 16 grants will support large-scale collaborative projects involving more than 165 researchers in 19 countries worldwide, including researchers coming from nine European countries.

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Development scenarios for a European infrastructure in high-performance computing

The European Commission's Information Society and Media DG has launched a call for tenders for development scenarios for a European infrastructure in high-performance computing (HPC).

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EU lags behind US in public spending on cancer research, finds survey

The EU is massively behind the US in the allocation of public funding to cancer research, according to a European Commission-funded survey. The crux of the problem is that Member States are failing to adequately support cancer research, leaving EU funds to fill the gap rather than provide added impact. The survey also noted the growing contribution of the non-profit philanthropic sector to cancer research.

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Telemedicine offers better picture for patient care

A new telemedicine platform promises to greatly improve the quality of care patients receive by giving highly qualified specialists the ability to collaborate efficiently when interpreting data from advanced medical imaging techniques.

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Siemens supports the founding of the first "European Institute of Molecular Imaging"

Siemens Medical Solutions (Med) wants to accelerate leading-edge research in Germany. To this end, the company became heavily involved in the foundation of the first "European Institute of Molecular Imaging - EIMI" at the Westphalian Wilhelms University Muenster, Germany.

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Research without borders, Australia

A conference entitled "Research without borders" will be hosted by FEAST, the Forum for European-Australian science and technology cooperation, in Canberra, Australia, on 28 and 29 November.

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Donating computer power to fight malaria

Help scientists tackle malaria by volunteering your...computer! CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is calling on people worldwide to donate some of the spare capacity on their home and business computers in order to run Malaria.net, a computer model for malaria epidemiology. The model aims to help improve the ability of researchers to predict, and hence control, the spread of malaria in Africa.

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MIE 2006 Invitation

On behalf of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI), I am pleased to invite you to attend the 20th International Congress of the EFMI in the Netherlands - MIE 2006. Approximately 500 ICT health scientists from all over Europe are expected to meet in the MECC Congress Centre in Maastricht from 27 – 30 August 2006.

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Call for papers: ISePHR 2006 - International Symposium on Electronic Personal Health Records

28th of September 2006,
Trondheim, Norway
Paper, poster and demo submission deadline 13th of August, 2006

Common and widespread Internet access changes the relationship between patients and health care providers, both in areas with well-developed and less developed care systems. The future of efficient healthcare relies on the competent, informed and self-caring patient.

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Helping robots cope with uncertainty

Robots are getting smarter all the time, and are now able to perform highly complex activities, yet there are still large numbers of tasks which are second nature to humans but leave robots largely stumped. For example, we are able to recognise someone we know in a large crowd, even if they are wearing sunglasses and a hat. In contrast robots would simply be unable to carry out this task, as they are ill equipped to handle unpredictable situations where they do not have full knowledge.

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