Reminder: Exemplar Project Call 3 Deadline Monday 25 April
This is a reminder that the Exemplar Project Call 3 submission deadline is on Monday 25 April.
Submission deadline: Monday, April 25, 2011 Notification of acceptance: no later than June 1, 2011 Anticipated start date for selected projects: July 1, 2011
Proposals must be submitted electronically by sending a PDF file (max. 5MB) to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
1) Who can apply?
Any European laboratory interested in contributing to the improvement or uptake of the VPH NoE ToolKit can apply.
It is not necessary to already be a member of the VPH NoE consortium. If your laboratory is not already a Core Member or General Member of the NoE, you may submit an EP proposal and apply concurrently for General Membership.
2) It is not obligatory for EPs to be part of an ongoing project.
Nonetheless, it is an advantage to be part of a currently funded (national, local, EU) project, because the EP funding doesn't cover anything except 6 to 12 person months for work directly related to the VPH NoE, so it is best to use this to leverage a broader effort being funded by other means.
Background
This is the third and last call for proposals for VPH NoE Exemplar Projects (EPs), activities that are intended to reinforce VPH ToolKit development. Successful proposals will be awarded financing to hire a postdoc/engineer/programmer for 6 to 12 Person Months for work directly related to the VPH ToolKit, as described below.The principal challenge we recognize in development of the VPH is the establishment of connections between domains of investigation with a view towards biomedical applications in a sustainable, long-term environment, targeting re-use and interoperability. Successful proposals will speak to the following statement, as expressed in the latest version of the VPH Vision document:
Our vision for the VPH/Physiome project is: To establish an ICT and computational science framework for digital, personalised, and predictive medicine in the 21st Century. To link discoveries in molecular biology with clinical imaging and other technologies using computational physiology based on the mathematical and engineering sciences. And to link genotype to phenotype for human and other animal tissues through anatomically and biophysically based multiscale models of physiological structure and function, at the levels of cells, tissues, organs and organ systems.
Crucial to this are adherence to a set of reference standards (some still in progress) that constitute the foundation of the VPH Toolkit, and the need for Toolkit content to be of a sufficient quality that it will readily be accepted and used.
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