Consortium

Partner n°1 :European Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
Project coordinator, with substancial involvement in the Dissemination Activities.

Partner n°2 : Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas
Clinico-Genomic Information System, Seamless Data Analysis, Grid-based tools, Ontologies, DNA microarrays, genotyping, integration of the ACGT technological platform. Responsible for the delivery of the Integrated ACGT technological Platform.

Partner n°3 : National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
Code execution acceleration (grid, parallelization etc.) for biomedical applications including in silico oncology. Also involved in the specification of the ACGT Architecture and its services. Data Mining - Visualization.

Partner n°4 : Universiteit van Amsterdam
Virtual reality visualization of clinical data and simulation predictions. Also involved in GRID Interface and applications.

Partner n°5 : Philips
Grid Development, Novel 3D MRI Visualization Tools.

Partner n°6 : Association Hospitaliere de Bruxelles - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bordet
Clinical Trials in Breast Oncology and system evaluation.

Partner n°7 : Institut Suisse de Bioinformatique
Formulate evaluation criteria, verification procedures and feedback report guidelines for the clinical trials. Coordinate with the local evaluation managers and report to management and steering group meetings on progresses achieved and remaining problems to be addressed wrt clinical trials.

Partner n°8 : Lunds University
Data Management Proteomics, Transcriptomics.

Partner n°9 : Computer Architecture Department at the University of Malaga
Data Mining, Knowledge discovery and design and development of the computational integration infrastructure at the project.

Partner n°10 : Polytechnical University of Madrid
Define the Ontologies needed for clinico-genomic integration and develop semantic mediation tools and services. UPM has also significant involvement in the data mining and knowledge discovery activities of the project.

Partner n°11 : Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Biomedical data analysis and knowledge discovery (cellular level) Data Mining, Knowledge Discovery-Information Systems.

Partner n°12 : BIOVISTA
Data and Text Mining and Visualization.

Partner n°13 : Medical School of the University of Crete
Clinical Trials in Breast Oncology, Tissue banks, clinico-genomic system specifications.

Partner n°14 : Institute of Legal Informatics of Unisersitaet Hannover
Study of the Legal Issues related with the work of the project and contribution to the specifications, especially of the trust and security requirements of the ACGT biomedical GRID infrastructure. Contribution to European harmonisation activities based on the experiences of Germany.

Partner n°15 : Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center
Responsible for the development and support of the basic GRID technology layer in ACGT.

Partner n°16 : Custodix
Contribution to specification and implementation of the trust and security-related tools and technologies taking into consideration the ethical and legal aspects identified.

Partner n°17 : HealthGrid
Dissemination and liaison of ACGT with other HealthGrid projects for dissemination and concertation. HealthGrid is one of the main partners for training activities within the consortium.

Partner n°18 : Institute of Communications and Computer Systems
Development of in Silico models for breast cancer as well as nephroblastoma response to therapy regimes. Contribution to the clinical validation / adaptation of the models.

Partner n°19 : Saarland University
Clinical Trials in Children Oncology.
Development of Biomedical Ontologies (IFOMIS)

Partner n°20 : SIVECO
The ACGT Portals and their services, preparation of educational material for training.