Call for Applications for 2nd HBP Education Workshop – Future Medicine
HBP Students can now apply for the second HBP Education Workshop - Future Medicine, to be held 15-18 March 2015 at the Centre hospitalier universitaire vaudois (CHUV) in Lausanne, Switzerland. The application deadline is 1 February, 2015. View the call for applications (PDF).
Brain diseases, neurological and psychiatric disorders are becoming a significant burden to society. The availability of clinical, genomic, proteomic and neuroimaging data, combined with recent advances in ICT, data mining and computational modelling makes it possible to extract unique biological signatures of diseases from multi-level descriptions of the brain. Future Medicine will build on biological signatures of diseases - rather than symptom descriptions - for diagnosis, more accurate prognosis, new drug discovery pathways, new treatments and personalised medicine.
The aim of the 2nd Human Brain Project Education Workshop is to introduce this new concept of biological signature of diseases for Future Medicine, and methods for creating multi-level biological models of brain diseases. Lectures and hands-on sessions will be led by experts from basic neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, medical informatics, bioinformatics, computer science and the healthcare industry.
Participation in the 2nd HBP Education Workshop 2015 is open to postgraduate students and young researchers working in one of the research areas covered by the HBP. Up to 30 students will be selected from a competitive application process based on pre-defined criteria. Students are requested to include an abstract on their current research in their application, and to present a poster at the workshop. A special HBP award will be given for the best poster.
Further details can be found on the HBP website and on the HBP Education website.