Workshop Programme

Breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided on all workshop days. More information on the times can be found in the pdf file for download.

Sunday 23

15:00  Registration

Monday 24: Impact of IT towards personalised medicine

08:30 - 09:30 Summer School Opening
09:30 - 10:30 Computational challenges and solutions to support personalized decision support in oncology in the era of big data
(Stelios Sfakianakis)
11:00 - 11:30 Cloud Platform for VPH Applications
11:30 - 12:00 Cloud-centric development of scientific applications for the VPH community
13:00 - 13:30 VPH-Share: Patient-Centred Multi-scale Computational Workflows
13:30 - 14:00 Public and private clouds as infrastructures for sharing data and computing services for VPH researchers
14:00 - 15:00 ObTiMA Introduction and Demonstration
15:30 - 16:30 Extended Trial Outline Builder for Interactive Visual Analytics of Clinical Trial Data
16:30 - 17:30 Using the Trial Outline Builder for Visual Data Exploration
17:30 - 18:00 Time for discussion

Tuesday 25: Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics

09:00 - 10:00 HIV Therapy - spearheading personalized medicine? (Thomas Lengauer)
10:00 - 10:30 Genomic evaluation of breast cancer patients using data mining classification techniques
11:00 - 11:30 Specific miRNA and autoantibody signatures in blood of Wilms tumor patients
11:30 - 12:00 Protein signatures and immune response pattern in childhood renal tumors
13:00 - 13:30 Clinical multi-model studies on prostate cancer
13:30 - 14:00 Demonstration of the ObTiMA biobanking module
14:00 - 15:30 The Continuous Mathematics Based Oncosimulator: A Demonstrator for the Case of Glioblastoma Multiforme.
Clinical Validation Aspects
16:00 - 18:00 The Generic Oncosimulator as an Integrative Platform for In Silico Oncology: The CHIC project paradigm

Wednesday 26: Law & Ethics in IT frameworks for personalized medicine

09:00 - 10:00 Legal and ethical challenges in ICT for health scenarios and how security can help to solve them (Nikolaus Forgó)
10:00 - 11:00 Security & privacy challenges for clinical research IT (Brecht Claerhout)
11:00 - 11:30 Biobanks, Biobank Networks and Metabiobanks: Infrastructure, Governance, and Legal Framework
11:30 - 12:00 Panel discussion: pro and contra of global informed consent for research
13:00 - 18:00 Social Programme

Thursday 27: Usability

09:00 - 10:00 User Experience and Usability: Beyond the Buzzwords (Dieter Wallach)
10:00 - 10:30 User Experience Design for Clinical Trial Recruitment
11:00 - 11:30 Demonstration of the ObTiMA Masterprotocol for Clinical trials
11:30 - 12:00 Demonstration of the p-medicine Portal
13:00 - 13:30 The VPH-Share project
13:30 - 15:00 ObTiMA and the p-medicine Portal
15:30 - 18:00 Feedback loops and discussion

Friday 28: Interoperability & Sustainability

09:00 - 10:00 Integrating complex clinical and biological data to improve risk stratification and treatment of cancer: examples from childhood cancer (Kathy Pritchard-Jones)
10:00 - 10:30 Clinical decision support
11:00 - 11:30 Demonstrator: Efficient patient screening for clinical trials
11:30 - 12:00 HL7 and SNOMED Normalization to provide Semantic Interoperability in Clinical Trials
13:00 - 13:30 Semantic interoperability solution for breast cancer trials in the INTEGRATE project
13:30 - 14:00 Towards a Middle-Layer Ontological Representation of Biomedical Data.
The Health Data Ontology Trunk and the Ontology Aggregator Tool
14:00 - 15:30 Summary and Conclusion
15:30 - 16:00 Farewell