Subject: VPH Newsletter - October 2025

On 19 Nov 2025 we will bring together thought leaders who are shaping the future of healthcare to explore how in silico medicine is transforming research, regulation, and clinical practice. Do not miss it!
POLICY NEWS
Help us move forward in this selection phase by voting for the VPH proposal on the EU Health Policy Platform (HPP) Agora portal before 12 November 2025.
As a partner of the NoBoCap community, VPH actively participated in the Annual NoBoCap Summit held in Brussels on 15-16 October 2025.
The European Commission Work Programme 2026 was released on October 21, 2025, setting out the key strategies, action plans and legislative initiatives that will lay the foundation for the work ahead.
The European Commission released a study on the deployment of AI in healthcare, highlighting barriers such as data, regulatory, and organisational challenges, and outlining actions to support the responsible and sustainable integration of AI in health systems
VPH COMMUNITY
From Barcelona to Brussels, Europe’s collective effort to bring Virtual Human Twins (VHTs) into real-world healthcare took a major step forward.
On 21 October 2025. Prof. Liesbet Geris, VPH Executive Director, delivered a key note in the context of High-level policy forum on systemic transformation and value-procurement of innovation.
Helen Byrne (University of Oxford) and Steven Niederer (King's College London) recently hosted a workshop on "The Mathematical Foundations of Oncology Digital Twins" at the Isaac Newton Institute.



The promise of artificial intelligence in global health is grand — but will it deliver for the many, or just the privileged few?


Collaborating across disciplines is easier said than done, and interdisciplinarity is at the heart of in silico medicineIn this episode of The Digital Twin Theory podcast,we welcome back Himanshu Kaul (University of Leicester) to discuss the real challenges and the practical strategies for interdisciplinary collaborations.



Daniel Bernoulli was a remarkable member of one of history’s most influential scientific families. He is best known for formulating Bernoulli’s principle, a cornerstone of fluid dynamics and modern computational modeling. He also used mathematics to demonstrate the life-saving benefits of smallpox inoculation—an early example of data-driven medicine.
Click here to read some interesting recently published papers from our community. If you have published an article in the field of in silico medicine, send it to us: we will include it in this section of the newsletter!
YOUNG SCIENTISTS COMMITTEE
9-12 Feb 2026, Auckland, NZ Registration open
New calls with deadlines in October/November Check them out!
VPH EVENTS
5 Nov 2025, Brussels, BE Registration open
11 Nov 2025, Online Registration open
16 Nov 2025, St. Louis, MO Registration open
20-21 Nov 2025, Amsterdam, NL and Online Free online event
24-25 Nov 2025, Amsterdam, NL and Online Free online event
13-16 Jan 2025, Sheffield, UK/Krakow, PL Registration open
28 Jan 2025, Amsterdam, NL Registration open
2-5 Feb 2026, Auckland, NZ Abstract submission deadline: 1 November 2025
2-12 Feb 2026, Auckland, NZ 
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"The Virtual Physiological Human will revolutionise the way health knowledge is produced stored and managed as well as the way in which healthcare is currently delivered."
 European Commission
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