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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.

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...