On 6 October, the H2020-funded VirtualBrainCloud project (TVB_Cloud) held its General Assembly meeting online. Chaired by Prof Petra Ritter, the TVB_Cloud project leader, the online GA meeting welcomed over 35 project participants, including representatives from the 17 institutions and organisations that make up the TVB_Cloud consortium.
The primary objective of TVB_Cloud is to create a decision support system for clinicians, based on a cloud platform for personalised brain simulations. These simulations are constructed using high-quality, multidisciplinary clinical data, including EEG and MRI scans, genetic analyses and blood-based biomarker data. The goal of the decision support system is to enhance the early diagnosis, prognosis and personalised treatment of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative conditions.
During the TVB_Cloud General Assembly (GA) meeting, updates were provided on the two stakeholder meetings organized by leaders of the legal and ethical workpackage, including a GDPR workshop held online in September 2020 and the TVB_Cloud sessions to be held as part of our Annual Conference later this month. Alongside, project representatives from Fraunhofer SCAI, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Charité Medizinsuniversität Berlin and Indoc Research (among others) provided summaries of ongoing activities on data processing and FAIRification, ontologies and terminologies, development of the cloud-based infrastructure and construction of AD disease progression models. Prof. Ritter also provided an overview of the interim review for TVB_Cloud, which had a positive outcome. The next TVB_Cloud GA will be held early next year.
