The development of the automated family car autoELFE is part of the UNICARagil project, funded by the BMBF. In order to determine the requirements and possible applications for the family car, the Institute of Psychology are conducting a survey. Parents and guardians with underage children are being sought as participants until 31.08.2022.

FAIR4Health is a project funded by the H2020 Science with and for Society (SwafS-04-2018) call for proposals. It is carried out by 16 partners from 10 different countries and lasts 36 months, active from 1 December 2018 until 30 November 2021. FAIR4Health encourages the application of FAIR principles in data derived from publicly funded health research initiatives, so that they can be shared and reused within the European Union (EU) health research community, defining an effective EU-wide strategy for the use of FAIR in Health.

The FAIR4Health Final Assembly was held on 24 November 2021 in Seville, where the researchers of the FAIR4Health consortium, experts from different fields (health research, data managers, medical informatics, software developers, standards and lawyers) met, with the aim of analysing the main outputs and conclusions of the project, including the assessment and the main considerations obtained after the completion of the FAIR4Health clinical demonstrators.

In this clinical demonstration of FAIR4Health, the application of the FAIR principles was carried out (to make data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable) to facilitate the reuse and sharing of health data, all from a responsible vision. FAIR4Health partners worked on the clinical validation of the technological solutions in terms of computational mechanisms that allow the analysis of health data distributed throughout Europe.
In this way, health researchers in the European Union have been able to share and reuse their datasets derived from publicly funded research initiatives in a responsible way. FAIR4Helath has been the first proposal to translate this initiative to clinical research in Europe and is expected to have a strong impact on research outcomes and health and social care.

We are pleased to announce our upcoming BRICS Seminar Series “Meet The BRICS”. The first lectures will start on the 1st of December 2021 at 12 PM. From then on, the seminar series will be held regularly every first Wednesday of the month. In the first round, the BRICS research groups will present their scientific focus and one representative project. Dieter Jahn will present “State-of-the-art microbiology: From biochemistry over infection biology to biotechnology” and Christian Dudek will talk about “PRODORIC: state-of-the-art database of prokaryotic gene regulation”.

Location: BRICS Seminar room 045/046 on the ground floor and online. Due to the current situation, we are allowed to meet with a maximum of 40 people in the BRICS seminar room (3G). To participate in presence please register in the following Doodle link.

The second class of the Biomedical Data Science PhD program (BIOMEDAS) will start in October 2021 and is seeking for interested students to join. BIOMEDAS was developed as cross-university PhD program within the Academy of the Translational Alliance of Lower Saxony (TRAIN). Several regional partners, all working at the intersection of bioinformatics, medical informatics, databases, data mining and machine learning, applied mathematics, biomedical modelling and analyses of complex networks, are brought together in the program. To apply for admission to the program, interested students are asked to send their application to biomedas@translationsallianz.de. All applications will be reviewed by the BIOMEDAS Strategy Board, personal interviews with the candidates are conducted if necessary and the final selection is made in September 2021.The applicants will receive a response by end of September. More information: www.translationsallianz.de/biomedas/.

SyMDROID will provide you with training and education across clinical, molecular biological, data science, as well as ethical, legal, and social research. It will foster your interdisciplinary connection to other young researchers working in these fields. Renowned experts from different fields will not only give inspiring lectures, but will also engage with you in both direct and moderated discussions on diverse topics important for systems medicine. Importantly, you will have plenty of opportunities to engage in networking and hands-on work (e.g., during the interdisciplinary hackathon) in groups among your peers. SyMDROID provides a unique forum for horizontal exchange of expertise. The topic of SyMDROID (oncological and immunological diseases) as well as the involvement of clinical research groups, enables you to deepen your systems medicine knowledge using clinically relevant use cases and data provided by said groups.

SyMDROID will be hosted at the TWINCORE in Hannover, Germany from November 1st to November 5th 2021. Travel stipends are available and hotel rooms will be provided, if necessary. Please send your application including a letter of motivation, a current CV, and an abstract on your contribution (talk and poster) via email to symdroid@plri.de no later than July 31st 2021. The letter of motivation should contain a brief descriptions of your studies or research (whichever applicable), an explanation of relevance to the topic of SyMDROID, and it should describe the need and added value of the interdisciplinary exchange during SyMDROID, ideally outlining self-defined learning goals. Your application will be assessed by a board of reviewers consisting of experts in systems medicine and related fields. You can expect a decision on your application by end of August.