Founding on EOSC project Virtual Brain Cloud Charite now leads EBRAINS’ Health Data Cloud –- a GDPR-compliant, federated research data ecosystem that enables neuroscience research consortia across Europe and beyond to work with sensitive neuroscience data originating from human subjects, as well as defined routes for sharing of the data and results.

Enabling the integration of distributed health data sources and empowering scientists to model and simulate complex phenomena on interdisciplinary digital twins – while protecting the privacy of the data subjects and patients – will spawn a multiplicity of innovations that may spark breakthroughs towards solving grand challenges of our times such as dementia.

Read the HBP press release here

Read the English Charité blog post here

Lesen Sie den deutschen Blogbeitrag der Charité hier

Join us September 18th for a free online conference on the impact of GDPR on digitization of biomedical research and clinical applications, including those using AI. VirtualBrainCloud will act as a case study, providing insight into the challenges and practical solutions of working with patient data. The talks will focus on data use, including privacy, security, and AI use, as well as the practical applications of VirtualBrainCloud such as early detection, prevention and treatment of Neurodegenerative diseases.

For more information and to register for the conference, please see here and to see the program for the complete conference please see here

Everyone is welcome to participate in the conference. The conference will be recorded and published, so if you wish to not be recorded please disable your microphone and camera.

The Virtual Brain was successful in a recent Research and Innovation Call of the European Commission Horizon2020 program with the topic “Exploiting the full potential of in-silico medicine research for personalized diagnostics and therapies in cloud-based environments”.The newly formed VirtualBrainCloud consortium led by Prof. Ritter at Charité Berlin and Berlin Institute of Health comprises 17 European partners and is funded with mill€15. The main goal is to create a cloud-based brain simulation platform that integrates data from many centers and in the future can serve as clinical decision engine for patients with neurodegenerative disease. The consortium took up work in December 2018; the kick-off event for the VirtualBrainCloud took place on January 25th at Charité Univeristätsmedizin Berlin

VirtualBrainCloud consortium:
*PARTICIPANT ORGANIZATION NAME -- PI

University Medicine -- Petra Ritter
University Aix-Marseille -- Viktor Jirsa
Fraunhofer SCAI -- Martin Hofmann-Apitius
University of Oxford -- Simon Lovestone, Alejo Nevado-Holgad
Forschungszentrum Jülich -- Simon Eickhoff, Thomas Lippert
Brain and Spine Institute -- Jean-Christophe Corvol, Stanley Durrleman
Inria -- Bertrand Thirion
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia -- Paul Verschure
University Helsinki -- Matias & Satu Palva
University of Genoa -- Gabriele Arnulfo
Complutense University of Madrid -- Fernando Maestu
Codebox -- Jochen Mersmann
Codemart -- Lia Domide
Eodyne -- Pedro Omedas
University Vienna -- Nikolaus Forgó
Tp21 -- Petra Zalud
Alzheimer Europe -- Jean Georges