Personalized medicine – a tailored health care system: challenges and opportunities

Abstract The vision of the future health care should be a system in which patient care is consistently improved through the use of information on the individual patient’s genomes and their downstream products. This requires the exploration of strategic relationships among various disciplines such as life sciences, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and information and communication technology, and constellation thinking to propose new ways for the diagnosis and therapy of diseases, integrated with a planned trans-disciplinary scientific approach involving all interested parties. Connecting high-quality trans-disciplinary scientists on a pan-European level through programs such as the Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) can support capacity building and increase the impact of personalized medicine research on regulatory bodies, decision makers, pharmaceutical and insurance companies, and the paying public. Such group effort could enable breakthrough scientific developments leading to new concepts and products and thereby contributing to the strengthening of Europe’s research and innovation capacity while reforming the health care system

Personalized medicine – a tailored health care system: challenges and opportunities

Abstract The vision of the future health care should be a system in which patient care is consistently improved through the use of information on the individual patient’s genomes and their downstream products. This requires the exploration of strategic relationships among various disciplines such as life sciences, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and information and communication technology, and constellation thinking to propose new ways for the diagnosis and therapy of diseases, integrated with a planned trans-disciplinary scientific approach involving all interested parties. Connecting high-quality trans-disciplinary scientists on a pan-European level through programs such as the Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) can support capacity building and increase the impact of personalized medicine research on regulatory bodies, decision makers, pharmaceutical and insurance companies, and the paying public. Such group effort could enable breakthrough scientific developments leading to new concepts and products and thereby contributing to the strengthening of Europe’s research and innovation capacity while reforming the health care system

Why another conference on personalized medicine?

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The best Open Access policies put researchers in charge, and recent EU Horizon 2020 and COST policies support this.

COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) – an intergovernmental framework supporting cooperation among scientists and researchers across Europe – recently supported an independent Strategic Initiative to better understand issues pertaining to open access publishing across a range of disciplines. Here COST Domain Committee members Marc Caball, Soulla Louca and Roland Pochet, Policy Officer for Open Access at the European Commission, Daniel Spichtinger, and Chair of the COST Strategic Initiative on Open Access, Barbara Prainsack emphasise here that the best pathways to the goal of open access vary across disciplines and across countries and institutions. The individuals best placed to decide what is right for them are the researchers themselves. The European Commission also encourages this position through the adoption of the Horizon 2020 open access regulation which will present researchers with a range of OA options, rather than prescribing one narrow format

The Balancing Act Of Developing An Undergraduate Mis Program

This paper reports on the developmental process of an undergraduate program for Management Information Systems at the School of Business of University of Nicosia which is a private University in Cyprus. The paper examines how, beyond the challenges widely documented in the literature, the team in charge of curriculum development had to balance out requests by a Visiting Team of academics appointed by ECPU -a national quality assurance body supervising private Universities- with the insights and guidelines of an Advisory Body composed of volunteering representatives of major business organizations in Cyprus, whilst keeping under consideration financial restrictions as well as constraints imposed by the regulatory framework of the University. The developed curriculum addresses these issues and provides flexibility for future growth in accordance with ever evolving challenges of this field

Blockchain in Academia: Where do we stand and where do we go?

Blockchain is an emerging exponential technology that disrupts the existing way of doing business. During the last 10 years its importance has been highlighted and many organizations worldwide have embraced it and developed innovative applications. Even though Blockchain has been adopted by many sectors, Universities are reluctant to propose new academic programs on this field at bachelor and postgraduate level and fail to efficiently educate students on Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Consequently, universities have failed to investigate the business, technical, legal and other aspects of this technology. As a result, we have the paradox where industry and economy would like to experiment and adopt Blockchain solutions but there is a lack of people with appropriate and adequate skills to work on these solutions. Obviously, this holds back the adoption and the widespread of this technology and currently there are problems in scaling up Blockchain technology. The goal of this paper is to explore the area of Blockchain education and training and propose the structure of a master program that can be used as a model. In doing so, we expand the body of knowledge and we shed light to an important area with limited available information and use cases

Green Engineering Caffe

We began to be always connected with introduction of global information and communication systems. In Europe and the world these systems are representatives of 2G and 3G systems with all evolution phases toward 4G systems. Except the mobile communications systems (e.g., digital cellular systems), there is a number of PCS, mobile data and WLAN standards and products that can be classified as, e.g., 2G wireless systems. The complexity of all these networks requires a careful holistic design, especially related to bandwidth and energy efficiency, which finally result in energy consumption efficiency. The same holistic design applies to all areas of engineering, which in the case of having the common goal of greening the Earth , could be called green engineering. This was exactly the reasoning for foundation of Green Engineering Society , with the main mission for opening the field of possibilities for creative design of green systems and thus to contribute to global eco-engineering design. During the Green Engineering Caffe we expect the original contributions, of conceptual and operational relevance, addressing open issues of the research agenda on a green sustainable economy worldwide, with a view to the specificity of the South-Eastern European region. Green Engineering Caffe will offer opportunities for networking in the field of green engineering, with the especial attention to enhance the strategy of Green Engineering Society . The selected papers on the green topic will be invited for publication in Journal of Green Engineering

On Network Survivability Algorithms based on Trellis

Due to the wide range of services being supported, telecommunications networks are loaded with massive quantities of information. This stimulates extra concern for network survivability. In this paper, we use graph theoretic techniques for addressing network survivability issues by transforming the original network topology onto a trellis graph, which allows the application of computationally efficient methods to find disjoint routing paths. We investigate the time complexity of the new algorithm as well as the time complexity of another algorithm on trellis transformations, presented in our previous work. The two algorithms are compared and evaluated in terms of their time complexity. Conclusions on their performance are drawn which show that the new algorithm has a bette