ACGT Report on the First Transatlantic Workshop on Multiscale Cancer Modelling (ICTBIO 2008)
On October 23-24, 2008 the First Transatlantic Workshop on Multiscale Cancer Modeling took place in Brussels, Belgium, EU within the framework of the ICT BIO 2008 event organized by the European Commission (EC) . The workshop was supported by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH)– National Cancer Institute(NCI) and the European Commission (EC). Important organizational roles were played by the EC funded research project Advancing Clinico-genomic Trials on Cancer (ACGT)and in particular by its action Technologies and Tools for In Silico Oncology as well as by the NCI funded research project Center for the Development of a Virtual Tumor (CViT). ACGT Workpackage 8 Leader (In Silico Oncology) Georgios S. Stamatakos reports:
REPORT TO THE ACGT CONSORTIUM ON THE FIRST TRANSATLANTIC WORKSHOP ON MULTISCALE CANCER MODELING
The workshop turned out to be a real success since it provided a great opportunity for a good number of distinguished investigators from both coasts of the Atlantic to get to know each other, to be informed on different multiscale cancer modeling approaches, to highlight different modeling goals, to point out different modeling priorities, to present different tools, methods, results and validation techniques and all that in the inspiring context of the ICT BIO 2008 event. During the entire workshop it was made clear that appropriate combinations of multilevel cancer models could provide much higher potential for both understanding cancer and optimize its treatment than isolated modeling efforts.
The Organizers along with the Participants expressed their hope that the fruitful and exciting interaction among investigators from both coasts of the Atlantic would continue beyond the workshop time frame and would lead to quite concrete and tangible results primarily to the benefit of the suffering cancer patient. They also expressed their hope that the event would prove to be the first one in a series of transatlantic workshops on multiscale cancer modeling to take place on both continents.
For the full report: Report on the 1st Translatlantic Workshop on Multiscale Cancer Modelling