The aim of the meeting is to discuss how e-Science can help fight pressing societal problems such as Alzheimer’s Disease.
The example will be described of FP7-funded neuGRID project (neuGRID.eu), a user-friendly grid-based research e-Infrastructure enabling the European neuroscience community to develop markers for the disease that will be critical to the development of effective drugs.
Speakers include Director General of DG INFSO Mr. Robert Madelin, Directorate F Director Mr. Mario Campolargo, Mr Remi Quirion from the Canadian Institute of Health Research, scientific and technical partners of neuGRID and outGRID, officers from DG RESEARCH Joint Programming for Neurodegenerative Diseases and DG SANCO.
Speakers will discuss the state-of-art and the future needs of e-Infrastructures at the crossroads of research, information and communication technology, and clinical care.
Special emphasis will be devoted to the international context where e-Infrastructures need to be built and become operational.
The feasibility of the ultimate goal of neuroscientists to develop a global virtual imaging laboratory by joining forces across the Atlantic (as pursued by FP7 outGRID www.outGRID.eu) will be addressed.

Press Release

neuGRID Fact Sheet

outGRID leaflet

Final event report

Final event pictures

6.30	WELCOME	Mario Mauro, Member of the European Parliament
6.35	OPENING	e-Science and the Brain – Towards the European Year of Active Ageing and the European Year of the Brain Robert Madelin, Director General INFSO Introduction by Mario Campolargo, Director, Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures, DG INFSO
6.45	THE PROBLEM	e-Infrastructures to Foster Drug Discovery for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases Giovanni B. Frisoni, Coordinator of neuGRID and outGRID
6.55	THE EUROPEAN SOLUTION	neuGRID Richard McClatchey, Technical Supervisor of neuGRID
7.05	THE NORTH AMERICAN SOLUTION	CBRAIN and LONI Alan Evans, Principal Investigator of CBRAIN, Montreal, Canada
7.15	THE GLOBAL SOLUTION OF THE FUTURE	outGRID: integrating neuGRID with LONI and CBRAIN to develop an e-Science global electronic infrastructure David Manset, Technical Coordinator of outGRID
7.25	INTERNATIONAL ROUND TABLE	Better Brain Health Through Innovative Technology In Europe And North America - Moderator: Gary Finnegan Rémi Quirion, Canadian Institute of Health Research Kostas Glinos, Head, Unit GEANT & e-Infrastructures, DG INFSO Peteris Zilgalvis TBC, Head of Unit, ICT for Health, DG INFSO Philippe Cupers, Joint Programming for Neurodegenerative Diseases Karin Lohmann, WP Chair Process Plan in Euro-BioImaging
8.25	CONCLUSIONS	Mario Mauro, Member of the European Parliament
8.30	COCKTAIL	All participants are invited

 

• About neuGRID:

  • Fact Sheet

  • Leaflet at kick off, end of year 1, end of year 2

  • Short and long version of video

• About outGRID

  • Leaflet at kick off

  • Fact Sheet

Chiara Barattieri, Project Manager
neuGRID and outGRID
Tel: +39 030 3501311


Cristina Bagnoli, Assistant Project Manager
neuGRID and outGRID
Tel: +39 030 3501361



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