HealthGrid 2010 Conference
The HealthGrid2010 conference, held in Paris from June 28th to June 30th, has gathered many scientists from 19 different countries belonging to the 5 continents. They presented the latest achievements and discussed the latest developments in the fields of grid-based research of biology, medicine and health.
Keynote speakers addressed the challenges of e-Health and e-Infrastructures while high level presentations took place under the 4 broad headings : ‘Socio Economic Aspects and Accessibility’, ‘Future of Grids, Core Technologies & Data Integration’, ‘Applications’ and ‘Poster Extended Abstracts. An interesting outcome of the conference was the opportunity given to a variety of NGIs and and EU biomedical projects to present their vision about the future of research using grids, during a plenary Life Science Virtual Research Community workshop. The workshop resulted in further consultation with the Life Science community and defined the roadmap for the LS communities support mechanisms required, through exploring several sustainable options with key representatives from the communities with the strong commitment of several NGIs.
The GridCast team have been blogging directly from the conference, all interviews, posts and videos can be watched in their website.
HealthGrid organizers want to thank all the participants for the invaluable contributions during the conference and wish to convey their gratefulness to all actors in the Life Science communities, the projects and the European Commission for their continuous support to the HealthGrid Initiative.