___VPH Newsletter___  Christmas issue 2014 And...a collective big "thank you" to Marco  from the VPH community! Prof Viceconti's  farewell message Dear colleagues, dear friends: In early 2005 some of us started to discuss a new idea that would then become the Virtual Physiological Human initiative. I find highly symbolic that at the turn of the 10th birthday of the VPH, I decided to step down from the role of Executive Director of the VPH Institute.... Read more POLICY NEWS EU Research Budget Safe A provisional agreement on the European Union budget for 2015 was reached that secured €45 million more for the EU research and development  programme Horizon 2020. Read more VPH and ESMO collaborate on Data Protection  Read more Data Protection Regulation in jeopardy? Read more Commission 2015 Work Programme to focus on employment Read more VPH COMMUNITY TBIcare project: Smart treatment planning for brain trauma The TBIcare project successfully ended in July 2014, delivering a software solution to improve the diagnosis of Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and guide the planning of treatments. Read more RASimAs: On the road towards a virtual reality platform for medical doctors One year after launching their project, scientists, physicians and industrialists of the RASimAs team met at the Foundation for Research & Technology Hellas (Heraklion, Greece) to draw a strategy for the coming years. Read more OraMod Project: Helping clinicians predict oral cavity cancer reoccurrence On December 9th, the Consortium presented the results of the first year of research to the EC, obtaining extremely positive reviews: the project was recognised an extremely interesting innovative approach to a "transparent" predictive model and an extremely effective data presentation and virtual representation of the disease. Read more E-rare-3 Call for Proposal 2015 for “Transnational Research Project on Rare Diseases" Read more __________ Avicenna news __________ Merry Christmas from all at the Avicenna Consortium End of a fruitful year of Avicenna Events Read more First Avicenna Review in Brussels Consortium team travel to Belgium capital to represent the project in its Annual Review.  Read more VPH EVENTS § Avicenna event 4 19- 20 February 2015, Brussels § Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine & Molecular Diagnostics 1-3 September 2015, Valencia (Spain) § Visual Computing for Biology and Medicine 14-15 September 2015, University of Chester (UK) § Miccai 2015 5-9 October 2015, Munich (Germany) Read more ARE YOU NOT A MEMBER OF THE VPH INSTITUTE YET? Join us now We need your support to ensure that the Virtual Physiological Human is fully realised, universally adopted, and effectively used both in research and clinic.

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