VPH2018 Conference: OPEN CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Following the increasing success of the four previous conferences of the Virtual Physiological Human, we are pleased to invite you to participate in its 5th edition, VPH FOR IN SILICO MEDICINE – VPH2018, that will take place on 5 - 7 September 2018 in Zaragoza, Spain.
The previous VPH Conferences were held in Bruxelles (Belgium) 2010, London (UK) 2012, Trondheim (Norway) 2014 and Amsterdam (Holland) 2016.

Scientists of international prestige in the field of the conference have confirmed their participation as Plenary Lecturers: Alfio Quarteroni (EPFL), Blanca Rodriguez (University of Oxford) and Ravi Iyengar (School of Medicine at Mount Sinai).

These lectures will be complemented by Invited Sessions organized by recognized experts in targeted research areas. In addition, we are happy to confirm that Tina Morrison (Deputy Director, Division of Applied Mechanics and Chair of FDA's Modeling and Simulation Working Group) will lead the special Industry Session on the coming opportunities for in silico medicine.

The VPH2018 conference will offer two different workshops for students. One on “Patient-specific musculoskeletal models into FE computer models” organized by CURABONE, an ITN-EID Marie Curie action, and a second one on "High performance computing for the VPH" within the framework of CompBioMed consortium.

Submission of abstracts is now open:

Authors are invited to submit a one page abstract before February 28th, 2018.
Registration and submission of abstracts should be performed online. Detailed information is available here. For any qustions, please contact us.

We look forward to welcoming you in Zaragoza in September 2018!

José Manuel García-Aznar, María Angeles Pérez Ansón, María José Gómez-Benito

Chairs of VPH2018

Further information on the conference website