BIOPATTERN

BIOPATTERN is a groundbreaking project that integrates key elements of European research to underpin eHealth. The goal is to develop a pan-European, intelligent analysis of a citizen's bioprofile; to make the analysis of this bioprofile remotely accessible to patients and clinicians; and to exploit bioprofile to combat major diseases such as cancer and brain diseases.

Today, the ability to produce vast amounts of bio-data has vastly outstripped our ability to sensibly make use of the data for decision making.

A key objective of BIOPATTERN is to address the problem of fragmentation in this key area by bringing together key researchers to create a critical mass of specialists to promote the development of computational intelligence methods underpinning e-Healthcare. The idea is to move away from local solutions to local problems and towards European wide solutions to European problems.

The main objectives are:

  • Integration - to tackle and reduce fragmentation of existing research capacities in this area
  • Virtual Research Institute - to create a new research community
  • New opportunities - to identify how bioprofile could be exploited for healthcare, such as disease prevention, diagnosis and treatment
  • Roadmap - to identify gaps in knowledge, key challenges and to initiate joint activities to address them.
  • Standards - To identify technical and ethical issues on which guidelines and standards should be based with regard to the acquisition, transmission and analysis of a bioprofile
  • Societal challenges - To contribute to finding solutions to some of the demanding societal challenges in healthcare.

For further information, please visit:
http://www.biopattern.org

Project co-ordinator:
University of Plymouth

Partners:

  • University of Plymouth - Plymouth NHS Trust Hospitals - Aston University - University of Liverpool - University of Nottingham - Liverpool John Moores University - Nottingham Trent University - Sheffield Hallam University - BioElf Ltd - Gap Infomedia Ltd (UK)
  • Universita Degli Studi Di Firenze - Universita Degli Studi Di Pisa - Instituto Nazionale Per Lo Studio Cura Dei Tumori, Milano - Universita Degli Studi Di Milano - Synapsis S. R. L (IT)
  • University of Athens Medical School - Telecommunication Systems Institute - Technological Educational Institute of Crete - University of Crete, Medical Division - Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis - Hellenic Telecommunications & Telematics Applications Company SA (Forthnet) - Daedalus Informatics Ltd (GR)
  • Neoventor Medicinsk Innovation AB - University College Boras (SE)
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Research & Development (BE)
  • Stichting Katholieke Universiteit (NL)
  • Instituto De Desenvolvimento De Novas Tecnologias - (UNINOVA) (PT)
  • Ecological University of Bucharest (FI)
  • University of Malta (MT)

Timetable: from 01/04 - 12/07

Total cost: € 12.800.000

EC funding: € 6.400.000

Instrument: NoE

Project Identifier: IST-2002-508803

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