VPH 2010
VPH 2010
The first of a series of international VPH Conferences (VPH2010) will be organised by the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence - VPH NoE in Brussels on 30th September to 1st October, 2010. This first meeting will be held in Brussels, Belgium, and is supported by the European Commission ICT for Health / DG Information Society and Media. The meeting will take place at the ULB Solbosche campus, Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt 50, Brussels, Belgium, 1050.
The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence is an umbrella project representing the Virtual Physiological Human Initiative set up by the European Commission with a budget of ~ 350 million Euros for the Framework 7 Program. The conference series is designed to be a key resource for the VPH NoE to produce a ‘ VPH Vision and Strategy Document’ to inform the next European Commission calls for the VPH field for FP7, FP8 and for European large infrastructural actions.
Keynote speakers
- Welcome Address: Zoran Stancic, Deputy Director General, DG Information Society, European Commission
- Professor Aleksander Popel, Director of the Systems Biology Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Professor Nadia Rosenthal, Group Leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Monterotondo, Italy; Professor of Cardiovascular Science, Imperial College London, UK; Founding Director, Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash U., Melbourne, Australia
- Professor Norbert Graf, Director, Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, University Hospital of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany
- Professor Janet Thornton, Head, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Key dates
- Early Bird Registration of €280 by 31st July!
- Negotiated VPH2010 hotel rates until 16th August
- Late Bird Registration of €350 by 15th September
- Registration after 15th September €400
- Deadline for abstract submission: 17th May 2010 (extension)
- Authors Notifications: 19th July 2010
Meeting information
The meeting on 30th September – 1st October will be dedicated to the VPH Initiative, bringing together key representatives from VPH groups, Industry and Clinics. The first meeting is designed to be a relatively small meeting up to a maximum of 200 participants with high profile key speakers and will contain the very best of VPH research. Parallel sessions will be held on both days with proposed topics in five main themes; Organ Systems, Modelling Scales, Research Methodology, Application Domains and Data Access and Information Assurance. We anticipate increasing the size and scope of the VPH conference in subsequent years.
The meeting schedule:
30th September: 9.00 am - 6.00 pm followed by a gala dinner in the evening
1st October: 9.00 am - 5.30 pm
Please notice that a VPH-NoE Strategic Consensus Meeting, chaired by Peter Hunter and Marco Viceconti, will take place 2.00 pm - 6.00 pm on the 29th September in the same venue. All wellcome, attendance is free, but registration is required here.
After the scientific meeting, we will publish the best VPH2010 papers in Interface Focus in 2010 . Interface Focus is a new themed journal of the successful Royal Society Interface Journal. It currently produces 6 Focus issues per annum, as a "supplement" to Interface. However, effective at the beginning of 2011, Interface Focus will become a free standing Royal Society journal and the VPH2010 issue will be one of its first publications.For a detailed campus map and instructions on getting to the campus by car and public transport please click here. For a more detailed public transport map please click here.
Registration
Registration will be on a first-come, first-served basis, unless applications exceed the meeting's capacity, in which case active participation (submitted abstract) will be considered. Please click here for online registration.
Hotel booking
ULB is pleased to propose a selection of hotels via RESORTEL. RESOTEL is a free, independent hotel reservation service with nearly 20 years of experience in accommodation management in Brussels. RESOTEL has negotiated special VPH2010 conference rates and proposes a variety of hotels to suit the needs of all participants. These rates will be available until 16th August. For on-line reservation, with detailed hotel description and interactive map, please click here.
Useful links
Call for Abstracts
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION HAS NOW CLOSED
Submissions for posters or for oral presentations are welcome. Both kinds of submissions will be subject to the same reviewing process. Contributors are asked to submit abstracts rather than full papers. Submitted abstracts will be selected for inclusion in VPH 2010 by the VPH 2010 Programme Committee for:
- Inclusion as an oral presentation and Invitation to submit a full paper for possible inclusion in the Interface Focus Issue
- Inclusion as an oral presentation and/or
- Inclusion as a poster or
- Not suitable for inclusion
Talks and posters will appear in electronic format on the conference web pages via the VPH NoE website.
The submission should be no more than 2 A4 pages of text in a word file (1800 words) or up to three pages if it includes diagrams, tables and references, with the extra space devoted to these and any captions. Font size should be no smaller than 10 pt Times New Roman with 2.5cm margins. All pages should be numbered and diagrams and tables should be positioned in their proper place in relation to the text, ensuring that the total contribution does not exceed 3 pages. Authors invited to prepare full manuscripts for submission to Interface Focus will also need to adhere to a further schedule for submission and review; final copy will be required by 15th February 2011. For a list of conference themes please click here.
We anticipate the possibility of a space for exhibits and demonstrators. If you would be interested in representing your project, organisation or company at this conference at a booth then please contact the conference organisers.
For further details and instructions please refer to the online abstract submission.
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VPH2010 Scientific Committee:
- Peter Coveney, University College London (Chair)
- Marco Viceconti, Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Bologna
- Vanessa Diaz, University College London
- Peter Hunter, University of Auckland
VPH2010 Organisation
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