On 17 June, the H2020-funded VirtualBrainCloud project (TVB_Cloud) held its General Assembly meeting online, summarising recent project developments and discussing upcoming plans. Chaired by Prof. Petra Ritter of Charité University Hospital Berlin, the meeting was attended by over 50 project participants, including representatives from the 17 institutions and organisations that make up the TVB_Cloud consortium. Angela Bradshaw (Project Officer) represented Alzheimer Europe at the meeting.
The main goal of TVB_Cloud is to facilitate the personalised prevention and treatment of dementia, by creating a decision support system for clinicians. Based around a cloud platform for personalised brain simulations, this system will integrate data from multiple sources (e.g. brain scans, genetic screens and neuropsychological tests) in a secure online environment. During the 17 June General Assembly (GA) meeting, TVB_Cloud workpackage leaders provided brief summaries of ongoing activities on data processing, disease progression models, computational brain simulations, and the software development that underlies these activities. The majority of the GA meeting was focused on describing sustainability options for the project, during which follow-up scenarios were outlined and key exploitable outputs were discussed. The next GA will be hosted in the autumn.
