RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences and FutureNeuro are co-leading, with University College Dublin, the Irish constituent of a caller EU task to enactment the integration of genomics into healthcare and beforehand caller treatments for patients.
Jointly funded by the European Commission, nether the Digital Europe Programme, and the Health Research Board (HRB), Genomic Data Infrastructure (GDI) Ireland is portion of a consortium of 20 EU Member States with the extremity of enabling entree to genomics and corresponding objective information crossed Europe by creating unafraid information infrastructure. The task volition facilitate a cross-border federated web of nationalist genome collections for biomedical probe and personalized medicine solutions.
GDI Ireland nationalist co-lead, Gianpiero Cavalleri, prof of Human Genetics astatine RCSI and lawman manager of the SFI FutureNeuro Research Centre said: “By realizing this federated investigation strategy we volition alteration Irish genomes to beryllium safely and securely analyzed alongside akin datasets from different European countries. Such infrastructure tin accelerate the find of familial causes of illness and pass the improvement of overmuch needed treatments for conditions specified arsenic crab that tin person a devastating interaction connected our lives.”
Irish familial data
The Irish GDI hub volition found champion signifier to negociate the Irish familial data, protecting the information of the idiosyncratic information contributed by individuals. Work volition beryllium informed by the acquisition and exertion developed by European partners.
The GDI task positions Ireland to enactment successful the Europe wide ‘1+ Million Genomes’ initiative, which is driving the development, deployment, and cognition of sustainable data-access infrastructures wrong each participating country.
Mairead O’Driscoll, main enforcement of the Health Research Board, said: “The GDI task brings unneurotic nationalist agencies, probe organizations, exertion providers and diligent organizations successful 20 countries. The overarching extremity is to design, make and operationalise a cross-border federated web of nationalist genome collections and different applicable information to beforehand data-driven personalized medicine for the payment of European citizens.
“Ireland’s information successful this task volition spot our researchers, clinicians, diligent representatives, experts successful information governance, information analysts and others collaborating connected a roadmap for information infrastructure successful Ireland and conducting proof-of-concept enactment utilizing synthetic data.”
Cavalleri and Denis Shields, (University College Dublin), are co-directors of the GDI Ireland project, with Aedin Culhane (University Limerick) and Markus Helfert (Maynooth University and SFI Empower SPOKE director) arsenic co-applicants. The squad volition beryllium supported by the SFI Centre for Research Training successful Genomics Data Science, the Irish Platform for Patient Organisations and Industry (IPPOSI) and Health Research Charities Ireland (HRCI).
Serena Scollen, the European GDI Coordinator besides emphasized the value of having an infrastructure for genomic information and said: “Countries volition beryllium capable to deploy infrastructure to facilitate unafraid cross-border information access. Ultimately the payment volition beryllium for the citizens of Europe and done shared learnings and improved healthcare, citizens globally.”
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