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EC assesses progress made in CHIC
The CHIC project had its first intermediate review at the European Commission in November 2013. The reviewers assessed the overall progress made within the first 6 months of the project, evaluated the preliminary results and the cohesion within the CHIC consortium. We have now received the official review report and are very pleased to report that the overall result of the review is a very positive one: CHIC is making good progress and is well in line with the work plan. The results reported in the deliverables as well as in the interim project reports are of good quality.

General progress meeting coming soon
The second CHIC general progress meeting will be held in Luton (UK) on the 20th-21st of February 2014. This will be a great opportunity for all partners to hear more about the recent technical achievements and to discuss the future developments of the project. The consortium will devote part of the project meeting also to discuss and implement the reviewers’ comments and suggestions and to prepare for the first official CHIC review taking place in summer 2014.
Reporting on the meeting outcomes will be posted in the next newsletter. For the project partners more information on the meeting logistics can be found on the CHIC intranet.

News from CHIC

CHIC partner KULeuven visited by high-ranking EU officials. Read more
A paper written by CHIC partners ICCS, USAAR and FORTH, together with other institutions, has recently been accepted for publication by the IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. The paper with the title “The Technologically Integrated Oncosimulator: Combining Multiscale Cancer Modelling with Information Technology in the In Silico Oncology Context” was pre-published on IEEE-Xplore.

News from the VPH community

European Parliament endorses VPH!! Read more
New horizon 2020 calls: €15 billion over first two years. Read more
New videos on p-medicine available. Read more

Forthcoming events

2nd International Conference on System Modeling and Optimization (ICSMO 2014)
The 2nd International Conference on System Modeling and Optimization (ICSMO 2014) takes place from 20-21 February 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. The aim of the conference is to connect scientists, scholars, engineers and university students of Computer Science and associated fields of research with each other and with the industry.

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9th European Breast Cancer Conference (EBCC-9)
The 9th European Breast Cancer Conference is held from 19-21 March 2014 in Glasgow, Scotland. The largest Breast Cancer Conference outside the USA is a unique multidisciplinary gathering of professionals with a common interest in breast cancer to discuss and educate themselves about the evolving disease landscape, to debate and deliberate about new data and developments and to establish what it means for patient treatment and care. Late-breaking abstract submission is open until Friday, 15 February 2014.
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