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Innovation in Healthcare without borders
Flagey, Place Sainte-Croix,
1050 Brussels, Belgium
16 - 17 April 2012
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FP7 Grant Agreement Negotiations
Brussels, 13 February 2012
The Health Directorate's training initiative for coordinators from the FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNO-2 Call took place on 13th February 2012 in Brussels.
Find the presentations now online here (
2.77MB).
DIABESITY - A World-Wide Challenge
European Commission, Charlemagne Building,
Rue de la Loi 170
Brussels, Belgium
9-10 February 2012
Conference programme (
1.88MB).
A conference report will be available soon.
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Innovation Convention 2011
Square – Brussels Meeting Centre
05-06 December 2011
The videos of the Innovation Convention 2011 are now online
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IMI – New opportunities for drug research in Europe
Krakow, Poland
12 October 2011
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IMI at the European Parliament
Brussels, Belgium
04 - 06 October 2011
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International Conference of Systems Biology - Workshop
Heidelberg, Germany
28 August - 01 September 2011
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FP7 Health - Open Information Day & Partnering Event
European Commission, Charlemagne building, Brussels, Belgium
09 June 2011
Conference programme: here. ( 602KB)
FP7 Health - 2012 orientation paper here ( 578KB)
You can access the recordings of the plenary sessions in the room Gasperi here
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Separate event organized by the Agency for the Promotion of European Research (APRE), Italy.
Crowne Plaza Europa Hotels, 107 Rue de la Loi, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
09 June 2011, starting time is 18.00
>> FP7 Health - Partnering Event
Separate event jointly organized by HEALTH-NCP-Net and Fit-for-Health
Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Brussels, Belgium
10 June 2011
European Perspectives in Personalised Medicine
Square-Brussels meeting centre, Brussels, Belgium
12-13 May 2011
conference report : here ( 424KB)
conference programme: here.
Innovation in Healthcare: from Research to Market
Flagey, Place Sainte-Croix, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
30-31 March 2011
conference programme: here
FP7 Health-2011 Grant Agreement Negotiations
The Health Directorate of the European Commission's DG for Research and Innovation organised an initiative for coordinators of the FP7-HEALTH-2011-single-stage call and Health NCPs on 7 March 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. Find the presentations here ( 4.74MB).
A similar event was organised for coordinators of the FP7-HEALTH-2011-two-stage call on 10 May 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. Find the presentations here ( 5.86MB).
How can medical innovations reduce the cardiovascular disease burden?
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Brussels, Belgium
04-05 November 2010
The European Commission, DG Research in partnership with the European Society of Cardiology, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes and the European Kidney Health Alliance has organised a two-day conference in Brussels. It gathered experienced people from the scientific community and industry working in different cardiovascular disease (CVD) and adjacent research areas (e.g. diabetes/obesity, nephrology) to reflect on the current situation in the field, to identify promising on-going European, international and national initiatives, to discuss their findings and future ways forward for the CVD area and at its interface with diabetes/obesity and kidney domains. The aim of the conference was to assess the conditions favouring the emergence, consolidation and expansion of advancements and innovations in the CVD field and their translational potential.
conference report (updated version) (892KB)
13th European Health Forum Gastein
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Bad Hofgastein, Austria
07 October 2010
The Health Directorate of the European Commission's Research Directorate General organised the workshop at the 13th European Health Forum in Gastein on the 7 October 2010. This workshop explored the opportunities and challenges personalised medicine brings, with a particular focus on the bottlenecks that needs to be overcome for the rapid uptake of personalised medicine into clinical practice. The workshop was the fourth of a series of preparatory workshops gathering stakeholders interested in personalised medicine. The work shop report summarizes the major issues highlighted during the workshop.
Workshop report (110KB)
Neglected Protozoan Diseases
Prevention, Treatment and Control of Leishmaniasis, Trypanosomiasis and Chagas disease
( 409KB)
Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
24 September 2010
Priorities for Cutting Edge Research in the field of Biomedical Technologies
European Commission, DG Research - Brussels, Belgium
21 June 2010
List of participants
Presentation (449KB)
Summary Report
From Systems Biology to Systems Medicine
European Commission, DG Research, Health Directorate, Brussels, Belgium
14-15 June 2010
Booklet (4.06MB)
Presentations (6.72MB)
Workshop report (780KB)
Stratification biomarkers in personalised medicine
European Commission, DG Research - Brussels, Belgium
10-11 June 2010
The Health Directorate of the European Commission's Research Directorate General organised the workshop "Stratification biomarkers in personalised medicine" on 10 and 11 June 2010. This workshop aimed to explore issues associated with stratification biomarkers in the emerging field of personalised medicine. A further objective was to contribute to the planning of a conference on personalised medicine that the Commission proposes to organise in 2011. The main results of the workshop were to identify obstacles associated to biomarker discovery and to their use in clinical trials and medical practice, to contribute to build a vision for 2020 and to clarify the role of EU-funded research for progressing this rapidly emerging area of research.
Summary Report (149KB).
Open Information Day & Brokerage event- FP7 Health Research
Centre Albert Borschette, Brussels
08 June 2010
Are mice relevant models for human disease?
The Royal Society - London, UK
21 May 2010
The Directorate for Health of the Research Directorate General of the European Commission together with the FP6-funded project CASIMIR organised a one-day workshop on the usefulness of using mice in research into human health and diseases. The purpose was to identify the bottlenecks and limitations in using the mouse as preclinical model and to find alternative ways to generate more reliable, robust and cost effective mouse models for clinical research and drug development. The workshop identified a series of bottlenecks which range from research bottlenecks to intellectual property rights, communication, training and regulatory ones and its conclusions can be found in the Summary Report.
Innovation in Healthcare: From Research to Market. SMEs in Focus
Square-Brussels Meeting Centre, Mont des Arts, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
20-21 May 2010
Role of -omics in Personalised Medicine
European Commission, DG Research - Brussels, Belgium
29-30 April 2010
The Directorate for Health of the Research Directorate General of the European Commission organised a workshop "Role of -omics in Personalised Medicine" on the 29-30 April 2010. The aim of this workshop was to explore the role of the "-omics technologies" in the development of the emerging field of personalised medicine in view of defining the scope and agenda of a conference on personalised medicine the Commission is planning to organise in 2011. The workshop identified visions and key priorities for the application of omics in personalised medicine and its conclusions can be found in the Summary Report (155KB).