The first meeting organized by the VPH NoE will be held in Brussels, Belgium from the 30th of September to the 1st of October 2010 and is supported by the European Commission ICT for Health / DG Information Society and Media. The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence is an umbrella project representing the Virtual Physiological Human Initiative set up by the European Commission with a budget of ~ 350 million Euros for the Framework 7 Program. The VPH NoE is also responsible for producing a ‘Vision document’ to inform the next calls for the VPH field for FP7, FP8 and for European large infrastructural actions.

 

The first meeting organized by the VPH NoE will be held in Brussels, Belgium from the 30th of September to the 1st of October 2010 and is supported by the European Commission ICT for Health / DG Information Society and Media. The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence is an umbrella project representing the Virtual Physiological Human Initiative set up by the European Commission with a budget of ~ 350 million Euros for the Framework 7 Program. The VPH NoE is also responsible for producing a ‘Vision document’ to inform the next calls for the VPH field for FP7, FP8 and for European large infrastructural actions.

The meeting on 29th and 30th September will be dedicated to the VPH Initiative, bringing together key representatives from VPH groups, Industry and Clinics. The first meeting is designed to be a relatively small meeting (150-200 people) with high profile key speakers and will contain the very best of VPH research. Parallel sessions will be held on both days with proposed topics in four main themes; Organ Systems, Modelling Scales, Research Methodology and Application Domains (please see below for a further breakdown). We anticipate increasing the size and scope of the VPH conference in subsequent years.After the meeting, we will publish the 20 best VPH2010 papers in Interface Focus in 2011 (the journal is ranked as 6th out of 42 in 'Multidisciplinary Sciences' publications). Interface Focus is a new themed journal of the successful Royal Society Interface Journal. It currently produces 6 Focus issues per annum, as a "supplement" to Interface. However, effective at the beginning of 2011, Interface Focus will become a free standing Royal Society journal and the VPH2010 issue will be one of its first publications.

Registration will be on a first-come-first serve basis, unless applications exceed the meeting's capacity, in which case active participation (submitted abstract) will be considered. Further details of how to register and submit abstracts will be posted on the VPH NoE website at the beginning of next year. Please make a note of the following weblink:

http://www.vph-noe.eu/vph-events/details/99

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch for further information.

On behalf of the

VPH2010 Scientific Committee

Peter Coveney, University College London
Marco Viceconti, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
Vanessa Diaz, University College London
Peter Hunter, University of Auckland
Peter Kohl, University of Oxford



Proposed Themes for VPH210:

Organ Systems

  • Neuromusculoskeletal
  • Cardiovascular
  • Lymphatic and immunitary
  • Internal organs
  • Respiratory



Modelling Scales

  • Population-organism modelling
  • Organism-organ modelling
  • Organ-tissue modelling
  • Tissue-cell modelling
  • Cell-molecule modelling



Research Methodology

  • Data management
  • Numerical methods and modelling tools
  • Experimental methods for models validation
  • Probabilistic and adaptive methods
  • ICT for integrative modelling
  • Multiscale visualisation and data processing



Application Domains

  • Systems physiology research
  • Systems Biology research
  • Screening, monitoring and diagnosis
  • Pharmacology and drug development
  • Medical devices design and testing
  • Models-assisted planning and treatment