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Council of Ministers’ Priorities for Chronic Diseases
In March 2010, the Council of the European Union, called on the European Commission and the Member States to launch a reflection process on the subject of chronic diseases.
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Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan launched
On 09 January 2012, European Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship Antonio Tajani published a Communication on the “Entrepreneurship 2020 Action Plan: Reigniting the entrepreneurial spirit in Europe”
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Commission announces new digital priorities for 2013-2014
The European Commission has published a Communication on the Digital Agenda for Europe: Driving European Growth Digitally which outlines digital priorities for 2013-2014.
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Available in open source the proceedings of the 2012 5th International Advanced Research Workshop on In Silico Oncology and Cancer Investigation
The workshop took place in Athens on the 22-23 October 2012. The event was technically co-sponsored by IEEE-EMBS and funded by the European Commission through the Transatlantic TUMOR Project in the Framework of the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Initiative.
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Physiology and the revolution in Evolutionary Biology
The President of the VPH Institute, Denis Noble, has recently delivered a lecture to a large Congress in China with the title Physiology and Evolution. The video is available.
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VPH Institute position statement on animal experimentation
Can we use computer simulations to replace (at least partially) animal experiments? The answer is YES! We believe that the principles of virtual modelling technologies provided by the VPH can be applied to animal experimentation and help reducing the number of animals used.
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