Conveners
Health & Life Sciences (including Pandemic Preparedness Applications)
- Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin (Utrecht University)
Health & Life Sciences (including Pandemic Preparedness Applications)
- Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin (Utrecht University)
Medical devices will almost always be driven by software components. Development for this field of work requires special considerations for patient safety and data privacy and is thus governed by rules alien to other deployment scenarios. The European Union is about to switch to a new regulation framework, the Medical Device Regulations (MDR), replacing the far less comprehensive Medical...
The use of big data in the field of omics and biomedical studies is the enabling factor for finding new insights with sufficient statistical confidence. When dealing with such data, several issues have to be addressed, related to the personal identifiable information (PII) often included in datasets and subject to the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which imposes particular...
In this pandemic times our group has coordinated large National and International Consortia to understand, through cryo Electron Microscopy (cryo-EM), both key issues on SARS Cov 2 spike dynamic (Melero et al., IUCrJ. 2020) as well as specific properties of mutations that were prevalent in Europe at certain periods (Ginex et al., PLoS Pathog. 2022), as part of our work in the European Research...
From a Public Health perspective, the once-in-a-century Sars-CoV2 (COVID-19) pandemic created unprecedented challenges for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). HEIs in the USA had to respond rapidly to switch from a mostly in-person mode of instruction to a fully remote mode. These changes had to be immediate and imminent to provide education with less to no impact on the health and safety of...
Data security issues and legal and ethical requirements on the storage, handling and analysing genetic and medical data are becoming increasingly stringent. Some regulatory obstacles may represent a gap to data sharing and the application of Open Science and Open Access principles. In this perspective, Task 6.6 of the EOSC-Pillar (https://www.eosc-pillar.eu/) project aimed to analyze the...
