IBD4Health summer school 2017 - Big Data Challenges for Healthy Living and Active Aging
From 01-02-2017 to 31-12-2017
Description
IBD4Health addresses the Big Data Challenges for Healthy Living and Active Aging, by considering the obesity’s underlying mechanisms, comorbidities and preventive management as case study. IBD4Health focuses on one major IT’s innovation that could reduce the demand for expensive healthcare by detecting more early the health conditions, avoiding larger health issues by Lifestyle interventions, Self-management of health and Overcoming functional loss, within a digital health framework. IBD4Health has developed a learning environment of the highest quality to train scientists in medical, life and physical sciences and engineering, who can address data challenge in the context of European privacy regulations. This involves the following items: collecting, normalizing and curating semi-structured datasets, creating algorithms capable of supporting a wide range of applications for analysing diet, mobility, lifestyle, psycho-social interactions, human and gut microbial genes, etc.
Team
- Bart De Moor, Promoter
Financing
Funding: EU EIT - European Institute of Innovation & Technology
Program/Grant Type: EIT Health - Promoting entrepreneurship and innovates in healthy living and active ageing
Events
2/09/2024:
PhD defense - Martijn Oldenhof
Machine Learning for Advanced Chemical Analysis and Structure Recognition in Drug Discovery
3/09/2024:
Meet the Jury Igor Tetko on Advanced Machine Learning in Drug Discovery
12/09/2024:
Multimodal analysis of cell-free DNA for sensitive cancer detection in low-coverage and low-sample settings
Seminar by Antoine Passemiers
News
STADIUS Alumni Herman Verrelst – new CEO of Biocartis
08 June 2017
Herman Verrelst, the founder of KU Leuven spin-off Cartagenia, who has been working in Silicon Valley, US for the last few years will be returning to Belgium to follow the steps of Rudi Pauwels as CEO of the Belgian diagnostic company, Biocartis.
Supporting healthcare policymaking via machine learning – batteries included!
29 May 2017
STADIUS takes the lead in the data analytics efforts in an ambitious European Project MIDAS.
Marc Claesen gives an interview about his PhD for the magazine of the Faculty of Engineering Sciences "Geniaal"
10 February 2017
Did you know that in Belgium approximately one third of type 2 diabetes patients are unaware of their condition?
Joos Vandewalle is nieuwe voorzitter KVAB
09 October 2016
Op 5 oktober 2016 heeft de Algemene Vergadering van de Academie KVAB Joos Vandewalle verkozen tot voorzitter van de KVAB.
