15 January, 2021
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9 December, 2020
Mining Biomedical Text to Find Insight that Can Save Lives
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)

25 September, 2020
AI-based Medical image analysis as an important tool for timely and accurate diagnostics
Blog post by Dejan Štepec (XLAB)

23 September, 2020
2nd Workshop on Ethics and Regulatory Issues
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....

3 September, 2020
iPC – Workshop on Ethical and Regulatory Issues
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....

13 May, 2020
iPC Podcast #2
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...

29 April, 2020
iPC connects paediatric cancer experts with key data sources
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...

6 April, 2020
iPC Teaser
Watch this short video to understand the main goal of the iPC project.

25 March, 2020
Interview with Salvador Capella-Gutierrez
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...

12 March, 2020
iPC Podcast #1
In this episode, we talk about the iPC project with Pavel Sumazin from Baylor College of Medicine in the USA.

20 February, 2020
Third International Conference on Mathematics and Statistics
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.

17 February, 2020
Interview Hans Lehrach
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...

4 February, 2020
Automatic extraction of biomedical knowledge from scientific publications
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.

16 January, 2020
iPC Technical and GA Meeting in Paris
Find out more about the Technical Meeting in Paris!

9 December, 2019
Health Data Challenge
Successful treatment of cancer is still a challenge and this is partly due to a wide heterogeneity of cancer composition across patient population.

28 November, 2019
EMBO workshop & Canceropole meeting
November has been an exciting dissemination time, as it has brought two conferences that couldn’t be missed

22 November, 2019
Interview Olivier Delattre
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.

31 October, 2019
Faces of iPC: Jolanda Modic, XLAB
Today in a talk with Jolanda Modic about herself and the iPC H2020 project.

22 October, 2019
European Researchers’ Night
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.

15 October, 2019
Interview Natalie Jäger
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...

2 September, 2019
What could machine learning contribute to the fight against cancer?

29 July, 2019
Faces of iPC: Diego di Bernardo, University of Naples Federico II
Today in a talk with Diego di Bernardo about himself and the iPC H2020 project.

23 July, 2019
iPC Technical Meeting in Barcelona
Find out more about the Technical Meeting in Barcelona!

15 July, 2019
iPC in a nutshell!
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.

8 July, 2019
Faces of iPC: María Rodríguez-Martínez, IBM
Today in a talk with María Rodríguez-Martínez - 5 questions about herself and the iPC H2020 project.

1 July, 2019
Faces of iPC: Pavel Sumazin, Baylor College of Medicine
Today in a talk with Pavel Sumazin - 5 questions about himself and the iPC H2020 project.

13 June, 2019
Who are the faces of iPC?
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...

6 May, 2019
Interview Alfonso Valencia
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...

22 April, 2019
Interview Diego di Bernardo
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...

8 April, 2019
Interview María Rodríguez-Martínez
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...

18 January, 2019
iPC – Kick-off Meeting
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...

1 January, 2019
iPC – Project
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...