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eTOX news archive
GRIB EXPO
17th April 2012
GRIB EXPO: Come and meet the future of biomedical informatics.
The Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics GRIB (IMIM-UPF), a subunit of FIMIM leadered by Ferran Sanz, will organize a scientific exhibition on biomedical informatics this month. Both eTOX and Open PHACTS projects will be presented to a broad audience of academic, clinical and industrial organizations.
GRIP EXPO will be held on the 26th of April in Barcelona.
Participants will have the chance to interact with scientist working on computational tools to shape the future of healthcare and drug discovery. More information here.
eTOX at the European Parliament
6th October 2011
The eTOX Project was presented at the European Parliament on the 6th of October as part of the Innovation in Action event. The session hightlighted the impressive achievements of IMI Projects. Professor Ferran Sanz, FIMIM, introduced eTOX through his speech "eTOX: Computational prediction of in vivo toxicities".
The IMI conference formed part of a wider event, involving five Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) – IMI, FCH JU (fuel cells and hydrogen), Clean Sky (greener aviation), Artemis (embedded computing systems), and ENIAC JU (nanoelectronics).
eTOX 5th Consortium Meeting
7th-8th November 2011
The eTOX 5th Consortium Meeting was held on the 7th and 8th of November in Sitges, Spain. A workshop on "Ontologies and Extracted Data Quality Control" were part of the event. The Scientific Advisory Board will be joining the Consortium Meeting for the first time.
IMI Stakeholder Forum 2011
11th-12th May 2011
Members of the eTOX consortium will participate on the IMI Stakeholder Forum on Thursday 12 May in Budapest, Hungary as part of the World of Health IT (WoHIT) eHealth week. The event kicked off with a plenary session, jointly organised by IMI and the European Commission’s Information Society, on how knowledge and data management can trigger innovation in healthcare and drug development. Subsequent sessions featured presentations by leading scientists of the first achievements of ongoing IMI projects as well as an overview of IMI’s plans for the future and a glance at IMI’s forthcoming 4th Call for proposals.
eTOX 4th Consortium Meeting
23rd-24th May 2011
The eTOX 4th Consortium Meeting was held on the 23rd and 24th of May in Berlin, Germany. Two exciting workshops were part of the event: "Modelling for Toxicologists" and "Implementation of models as web-services".