Subject: VPH Newsletter: June 2020

POLICY NEWS
The Avicenna Alliance publishes a brand-new position paper on AI & Big Data while providing feedback on the European Strategy for Data.
On 27 May 2020 the European Commission published its proposal for an extensive recovery plan.
On 2 June 2020 the European Commission published its Roadmap to the Pharmaceutical Strategy and opened a feedback period until 7 July 2020.
On 7 May 2020, the Advisory Board of the pilot European Innovation Council (EIC), established by the European Commission, has published its new vision for the period 2021-2027 to support world-class science and innovations.
On 4 June 2020 the Commission published a factsheet to provide more information regarding the new objectives of the Digital Europe Programme funded under the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for 2021-2027, the next long-term EU budget.
VPH COMMUNITY
This Special Theme issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society has just been published compiled and edited by Gary R. Mirams, Steven A. Niederer and Richard H. Clayton
A study in eLife reveals that a model can estimate regional disease burden and the impact of vaccination, even in the absence of robust surveillance data.
The AA has collected five case studies to show the potential that has yet to be unleashed by modelling and simulation.
An innovative training network, coordinated by Jérôme Noailly, principal investigator of the area of Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of the BCN MedTech research unit and VPHi member, aims to advance computational simulations integrated into translational medicine, applied to intervertebral disc degeneration.
On 24 August 2020 the VPH2020 conference will open with a special session completely dedicated to COVID-19
On 6 July 2020 at 16.00 CET the VPHi executive director, Prof Lies Geris will give a webinar on “In silico tools for skeletal tissue engineering from bench to bedside”
STUDENT COMMITTEE
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