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ACGT Newsletter

View Summer 2010 Issue

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Designing drugs and treatments to combat the diseases of the 21st century has become a very complex endeavor.

Not only do we want drugs to rid us of disease, we also want to have no side effects from our medications, take them for as little as possible and ideally have them tailored to reflect our exact personal circumstances.

Fortunately, this vision is coming closer by the day thanks to advances:

• in post genomic research that provides new understanding and tools to combat diseases,
• in clinical trials that generate huge amounts of data from individual patients and help us understand how drugs work, and
• in information technology that brings all these elements together allowing us to analyze the huge amounts of data generated and extract new knowledge

Addressing this vision, ACGT is a EU project that operates in the space of information technologies (IT), in post genomic clinical trials, focusing as a starting point on cancer.

The overall objective of the project is to develop an IT infrastructure that will support a large variety of analyses, some of which may be highly complex and compute intensive, the analyses themselves taking place in the context of clinical trials and bio-lab research in 2 cancer areas: breast cancer and child nephroblastoma.

Furthermore we aim to make the IT infrastructure open-source, meaning that other groups who may wish to build on the work of the project and contribute to the ACGT community will find it easy to do so.

To have its intended impact, ACGT aims to be open to a broad group of people and offer genuinely useful services to the community at large. In this section we wish to offer you, the member of the general public, a bird's eye view of the project, pointers to more specialized information and a chance to contact members of the ACGT community to voice your wishes or any questions you may have.

Click on the links below to find out more about the world of ACGT.

ACGT News and related articles:

here you can find the latest news on ACGT and articles we have selected for you that we think might be of interest. [more...]

Clinical Trials:

Information on the clinical trials that are supported by ACGT. [more...]

Advocacy Groups:

Advocacy groups are groups of people with a keen interest in a disease or research area that band together and get actively involved in any research or developments that they feel are relevant to their cause. Here you will find a list of advocacy groups we feel are related to the cause of ACGT. [more...]

ACGT Services for the public:

access information services (such as finding the adverse effects of a drug) that are freely available to the public. [more...]

Contact ACGT:

find people in ACGT to get in touch with, submit your question or request to ACGT. [more...]

Frequently Asked Questions:

a list of questions that people often ask about ACGT, clinical trials, cancer research and related issues. [more...]