Subject: VPH Newsletter: January 2019

POLICY NEWS
On 11 December, the Council adopted its 18-month programme for the following period: 1 January 2019 - 30 June 2020. The document was prepared by the Trio of future Presidencies (Romania, Finland and Croatia), together with the High Representative of the Council.
On 29 November, the EU Health Summit ‘A shared Vision for Health’ brought together European leaders, policy makers and health stakeholders to discuss the future of healthcare in Europe
On 7 December, the European Commission presented a coordinated plan on Artificial Intelligence (AI) prepared with Member States to foster the development and use of AI in Europe.
On 30 November the Council Presidency published a report on the progress within the Council on the proposal for a Regulation on health technology assessment (HTA) and amending Directive 2011/24/EU.
On 7 December, the Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs Council configuration (EPSCO) gather together to discuss Health Issues in Europe.
On 19 December, three newly members of the European Research Council’s (ERC) governing body, the Scientific Council, have been appointed by the European Commission
VPH COMMUNITY
On 14 December 2018 the STriTuVaD consortium published the technical report “A modelling framework to simulate the dynamics of the human immune system”
Recently published on the Nucleic Acids Research Journal by Ines Thiele (University of Luxembourg) & all, this paper describes the Virtual Metabolic Human database and how to integrate human and gut microbiome metabolism with nutrition and disease
The European Active and Assisted Living (AAL) Programme preannounces its 2019 Call
Special VPH issue in the ‘Morphologie Journal’ to present in silico medicine applications that have hit the clinics.
Submission deadline: 15 June 2019
Application deadline: ASAP
Application deadline: ASAP
STUDENT COMMITTEE
Don't miss this very interesting presentation!!
Application deadline: 31 March 2019
Application deadline: 31 March 2019
Application deadline: 31 March 2019
VPH EVENTS
29 Jan 2019, Brussels - Belgium
26 -30 Jan 2019, San Antonio (US)
10 - 14 June 2019, Barcelona (Spain)
7 - 10 July 2019, Vienna (Austria) - Deadline for abstract submission: January 31, 2019
25 -29 Sept 2019, London (UK) - Submission deadline 15 May 2019
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