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iPC brings hope to children with cancer. For the past few year the project team was focused on identifying effective personalized medicine for paediatric cancers and addressed a multitude of challenges. The following video summarizes the impact the project achieved...

As one of the winners of the major biomedical image analysis competition, the AI team of our partner XLAB has contributed to a meta-analysis study on the best ingredients for winning a biomedical image analysis challenge and presented it on...

During SIOP 2022, IGTP, organized together with Texas Children’s Hospital the first International Biology/Pathology Meeting in Barcelona on September 30th. The main focus was to discuss the retrospective and PHITT prospective biological and pathological studies with American, Japanese and European...

At this year’s ASCO Annual Meeting in Chicago, our partner DKFZ /KiTZ participated with a poster presentation on “Multiomics analysis of pediatric solid tumors within the INFORM precision oncology study: From functional drug profiling to biomarker identification”, presenting their excellent...

At SIOP 2022, many experts were involved in the work on childhood cancer – our partners BSC, LMU and IGTP were three of them. They presented their excellent work in our project at the poster and oral sessions and received...

Our partner XLAB has done an excellent job within the project. They developed the best machine learning algorithm for cell segmentation and won the SegPC-2021 challenge against 41 competing teams from around the world. You can read more about the...

Our partner CMRI attended the 70th American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Related Topics in Minneapolis (USA) from 5-9 June and gave a presentation entitled “Pan-cancer proteomic map of 949 human cell lines”.

Alvaro del Rio and Juan Carrillo, two cLOG predoctoral students from IGTP, were showing their posters in the SCD (Catalan society of digestology) in the annual meeting that took place in Girona (June 2-4).

Our partner BCM identified a new molecular subset of pediatric liver cancer. The study showed that these tumors have better outcomes when patients were treated by transplantation, rather than by chemotherapy and surgery alone. Click here for more information.

Our partner BSC joined a workshop on Interpretability in Artificial Intelligence at the Banff International Research Station from May 1-6, 2022 organized by our other partner IBM. The workshop focused on new developments in interpretable AI to accelerate the adoption...

Our partner IGTP attended the AEEH (Spanish association for the study of the Liver) meeting that took place in Madrid (May 25-27). Juan Carrillo, one of childhood liver oncology group (cLOG) predoctoral student, presented the last results in an oral...

Today we want to present you the current work in the iPC project of our partner TUDA! The TUDA team is working on a neural network for graph structure inference. To support their approach, the TUDA team derives information theoretical bounds for...

Our partner IGTP presented their work carried out at iPC project in the “Advances in the Pathogenesis and Molecular Therapies of Liver Cancer” meeting from AACR (American Association for Cancer Research) in Boston (May 5-8, 2022). They had had two...

LMU participated in the Special Conference on Advances in the Pathogenesis and Molecular Therapies of Liver Cancer organized by the American Association for Cancer Research. They presented their latest results on the in silico drug repurposing of mebendazole as a...

Our partner IBM organized a workshop on interpretability at the Banff International Research Station from May 1-6, 2022. The workshop focused on new developments in interpretable AI to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence approaches in sensitive areas. All the...

Today we want to present you the current work in the iPC project of our partner LMU! Within the fourth year of the iPC project, LMU has started to test drugs identified within the iPC consortium in combination with the...

The treatment of paediatric cancers presents specific challenges distinct from the treatment of adult cancers. iPC focus on developing a comprehensive computational set of models & software to address some of the most challenges that clinicians face in their daily...

On 8th March 2022 the iPC review meeting took place. Due to the persistent Covid-19 pandemic the meeting was again held online. During the half-day meeting various presentations were given in order to show the project’s progress during the last...

In this episode we welcome Davide Cirillo. He represents the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, a partner in iPC which, by the way, stands for Indivualized Peadiatric Cure. We talk about how explainable AI and machine learning is the key to tailor...

In this episode we talk with Pieter Mestdagh, principal investigator at the Cancer Research Insitute Ghent, who is a project partner in iPC. He shares his teams methods with us for a better understanding of their motives and how algorithms...

The diversity across tumors from different patients and even across cancer cells from the same patient makes the picture very complex. The idea of ‘personalized’ or ‘precision’ medicine has been suggested, aiming to find tailored treatment regimen for each patient...

On Monday, September 27, the Kids First Data Resource Center was pleased to once again participate in the NIH Common Fund’s Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program Public Webinar Series. CHOP participated in this webinar. Watch the webinar here.

CURIE participated in this training. The diversity across tumors from different patients and even across cancer cells from the same patient makes the picture very complex. The idea of ‘personalized’ or ‘precision’ medicine has been suggested, aiming to find tailored...

In this episode, we speak with Nikola Biller-Andorno who directs the Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. We look at some of the ethics issues in medical and health sciences and...

The Catalan Institute of Health (ICS) has awarded the 2021 for the best research paper in Health Science in the predoctoral category to a student at the IGTP. It is the second year running that this prize has come to...

The scientific organizers proclaimed the second IGTP Retreat (Research and Innovation across the Can Ruti Campus) a resounding success and another example of how the research community rapidly adapts to every new situation. it was generally agreed that the sense...

CHOP participated in the virtual meeting “Global dialogue on data sharing for dementia research”.

The third year of the iPC project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done. This week we are presenting Technikon...

In childhood cancer, cells have often got stuck in development during pregnancy, causing them to start growing uncontrollably. With new technology, it is now possible to map these precursor cells. Three Máxima researchers talk about their recent findings with the...

The third year of iPC project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done behind the project. This week we present...

The third year of iPC project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done behind the project. This week we present...

The third year of iPC project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done behind the project. This week we present...

CHOP participated in the Kids First 2021 Spring Public Webinar hosted by Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program. Watch the webinar here.

The researchers from the Barcelona Supercomuting Center (BSC) Iker Núñez-Carpintero and Davide Cirillo, from the Computational Biology group led by Alfonso Valencia, along with Marianyela Petrizzelli and Andrei Zinovyev from the Institut Curie, have developed a novel method for the...

The review article “Artificial intelligence in cancer research: learning at different levels of data granularity” by Davide Cirillo and Iker Núñez-Carpintero, from the Computational Biology group led by Alfonso Valencia, is featured on the cover of the April issue of...

The third year of iPC project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done behind the project. This week we present...

The third year of iPC project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done behind the project. This week we present...

The third year of iPC project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done behind the project. This week we present...

The third year of iPC project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done behind the project. This week we present...

CHOP participated in this webinar.  

The third year of iPC project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done behind the project. This week we start...

CHOP participated in this webinar series. You’re invited to hear directly from PNOC experts about the current state of research and clinical trials for disease specific pediatric brain cancers. Meet distinguished leaders who are dedicated to changing the outcomes of...

The third year of iPC project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done behind the project. This week we start...

The third year of iPC project has started and in order to present the current work that each consortium partner is developing, we asked them to summarize the processes that are being done behind the project. This week we start...

AMC participated in the online introduction workshop R2: Genomics Analysis & Visualization Platform. Watch the workshop here.

CHOP participated in the NITRD BD IWG Virtual Workshop on Pioneering the Future of Federally Supported Data Repositories. Watch the workshop here:

Blog post by Davide Cirillo, Alejandro Canosa and Salvador Capella-Gutierrez (Barcelona Supercomputing Centre), Maria Rodriguez Martinez and Matteo Manica (IBM Research Zurich), Joao Pita Costa and Jolanda Modic (XLAB)

CHOP participated in the NIH Workshop on Cloud-Based Platforms Interoperability. Watch the workshop here.

CHOP participated in the Kids First Fall Public Webinar hosted by Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program. Watch the webinar here.

Blog post by Dejan Štepec (XLAB)

The Lifespan Brain Institute (LiBI) is dedicated to studying how the brain and behavior develop and change over time and in response to different illnesses. This collaboration between the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania bridges the...

The Institute of Medical Bioethics and History of Medicine (IBME) of the University of Zurich hold the second session of the webinar on ethical and regulatory issues that are relevant for the implementation of the IPC cloud-based data catalogue portal....

CHOP participated in the Joint meeting of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers (ADRCs) and the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Centers (IDDRCs). The workshop connected a wide range of investigators from multiple institutions and encouraged collaborations within and among the...

Blog post by Jolanda Modic (XLAB) and Alejandro Canosa (BSC) Unlike the popular perspective and as defended by many (and pointed out by the North American National Cancer Institute, NCI), cancer is not one but rather a collection of related...

Treating kids with cancers differs from treating adults. The future of paediatric cancer treatment is in personalization and for that, connecting experts with key data sources is vital. The iPC project we’re a part of, is building a massive base...

First session of this WEBINAR! The Institute of Medical Bioethics and History of Medicine of the University of Zurich held a webinar on ethical and regulatory issues that are relevant for the implementation of the IPC cloud-based data catalogue portal....

CHOP participated in the Clin-Phen Part 2 Webinar (The Innovation Across the Phenotypic Translational Divide). This is an event co-planned by the Monarch Initiative and the Kids First Data Resource Center (DRC). Find more information about it here.

On Thursday, July 30, 2020, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF) presented a virtual childhood cancer lecture featuring Adam C. Resnick, PhD. Dr. Resnick’s lecture discussed novel approaches to collaborative discovery and clinical translation in pediatric brain tumors that leverage large-scale...

The Childhood Liver Oncology Research Group (C-Log) led by Carolina Armengol has published results in the context of the European project ChiLTERN which aims to improve the clinical treatment of paediatric hepatoblastoma (HB), a rare disease that mostly affects children under three....

In this episode, we talk about the iPC project with Matteo Manica. He’s a research staff member at the IBM Research Lab in Europe at the Zurich location. He describes his role and some of the overarching goals of this...

Watch this short video to understand the main goal of the iPC project.

In this video we speak with Salvador Capella-Gutierrez (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) about the iPC H2020 project. The following questions are discussed: “What is so special of being part of the iPC project?”, “What are the most important findings after the...

In this episode, we talk about the iPC project with Pavel Sumazin from Baylor College of Medicine in the USA.

On February 6-9, the Third International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics (AUS-ICMS’20) was hosted by the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.

In this video we spoke to Hans Lehrach, scientific lead of the iPC project from the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. He explains why it is so special to be part of iPC, what are the most important findings after the first year and...

The efficient retrieval and processing of biomedical information from textual sources represents a crucial step to better characterize the molecular entities at play in paediatric cancers.

Find out more about the Technical Meeting in Paris!

Successful treatment of cancer is still a challenge and this is partly due to a wide heterogeneity of cancer composition across patient population.

November has been an exciting dissemination time, as it has brought two conferences that couldn’t be missed

In this video we spoke to Oivier Delattre from the Institut Curie. He explains his part in the iPC H2020 project. He also points out some potential project challenges from his perspective.

Today in a talk with Jolanda Modic about herself and the iPC H2020 project.

For the first time the IGTP has participated in the European Researchers’ Night, part of the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme, which aims bringing scientists and society together.

In this video we spoke to Natalie Jäger from the German Cancer Research Center. She explains her part in the iPC H2020 project which involves the search of the appropriate data for analysis. She also points out some potential project...

Today in a talk with Diego di Bernardo about himself and the iPC H2020 project.

Find out more about the Technical Meeting in Barcelona!

Find out more about identifying effective personalized medicine for paediatric cancer. Comprehensive computational effort to combine knowledge base, machine-learning, and mechanistic models are used in iPC to predict optimal standards and therapies for personalized treatments.

Today in a talk with María Rodríguez-Martínez – 5 questions about herself and the iPC H2020 project.

Today in a talk with Pavel Sumazin – 5 questions about himself and the iPC H2020 project.

Who are the people of iPC who work every day to fight against paediatric cancer? In our series “Faces of iPC” we call the people working within the project before the curtain. Find out more about their background, their role...

In this video we spoke to Alfonso Valencia from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. He explains his part in the iPC H2020 project which involves using the power of the supercomputer to analyse biological data. Mr. Valencia also touches on the...

In this video we spoke with Diego di Bernardo from the University of Naples Federico II. about his professional background and some broader aspects of the European Commission funded H2020 iPC project which kicked off in January 2019. He also...

We recently spoke to Maria Rodriguez Martinez from IBM about the European Commission funded H2020 iPC project which kicked off in January 2019. As the technical coordinator, she shared her thoughts on some aspects of iPC including the challenges she...

The iPC project Kick-Off Meeting took place from 15th to 16th January 2019 in Zurich, Switzerland. During those two days, the iPC consortium met at the IBM premises. The first day was dedicated to get to know each other and...

Under the technical leadership of Dr. María Rodríguez Martínez from IBM in Switzerland and the coordination of the Austrian-based private research company Technikon, consortium scientists are committed to a European Commission funded research project entitled individualizedPaediatricCure or iPC. In this...