NGS Establishment in Multidisciplinary Healthcare Education SYStem (Nemhesys) Erasmus Project

Project Title

NGS Establishment in Multidisciplinary Healthcare Education SYStem (Nemhesys)

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Personalized medicine constitutes the ability to tailor healthcare decisions based on an individual’s unique characteristics (genetics, demographic information, healthcare experience, environment and social factors) to more accurately diagnose the individual’s disease, predict its outcomes, and select treatments that increase the chances of a successful outcome and reduce possible adverse reactions.A key component in personalized medicine is the emergence of whole-genome-scale sequencing as a platform to identify gene variants. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) allows for the fast generation of thousands to millions of base pairs of DNA sequence of an individual patient. However, the new technologies bring new challenges, both at the technical level and in terms of data management, as well as for the interpretation of the results and for counselling.The challenges to moving next-generation sequencing (NGS) into the clinical setting are both technical and regulatory. While such tools have reduced many of the barriers to clinical application of NGS, the investment needed to bring NGS into medical practice remains significant with the scale of knowledge required being unprecedented at most hospitals. All these aspects justify the consideration of what will be the precise role of NGS in diagnosis, risk assessment, response prediction, and treatment monitoring, today and tomorrow. In this context, Nemhesys will develop an innovative, demand driven Master class, whose aim is to provide qualified biomedical personnel with the essential bioinformatics skills and knowledge necessary to begin to analyse next generation sequencing data and carry out some of the most common types of analysis. The Master class will consist of 5 modules, one per HEI based on their specialisation and will be taught simultaneously via an online platform. At the end of each session private companies run a workshops on technological topics adapted to the health sector to improve the use of NGS.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 829290 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• CHARITE – UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN BERLIN
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES SL
• SCIC MNEMOTIX
• IDIMAS GESTION SL
• THE QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST
• HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
• MASARYKOVA UNIVERZITA