The HEREDITARY project consortium has carried out its third Plenary Meeting, the first in-person in 2025, which took place on the 5th and 6th of February in Barcelona (Spain). Representatives of partner institutions met there for two productive days of updating, planning, learning, and reviewing the next stages for the Project’s second year.
Day 1 of the meeting included an overview of the project state, the introduction of progress updates on each work package, along with internal workshops or activities to enhance the participants’ capacities. Each WP lead partner delivered a presentation to allow the consortium members to learn first-hand about the advancements made to date and future steps.
On Day 2, WPs’ presentations were completed early in the morning and, then, participants focused on data discussions on genomics, gut-brain interplay, parkinson’s disease in the eye and evidence-based knowledge base construction. They proceeded with the presentation of the Information Extraction CLEF 2025 challenge and closed the day with a short summing-up session.
Decoding 2024
The first year of work has laid the foundations on which the project will be built. One of our most noticiable achievement this year has been the delivery of 16 high-quality deliverables, all on time, demonstrating our efficiency and dedication to project development. These deliverables are available on our website, and we encourage anyone interested to consult those that are publicly accessible, on our zenodo profile.
Throughout 2024, several significant technical advancements have been made, including:
- The Review and Verification of Use-Cases (UNITO – D2.16 and D2.19), which include the decision on the proprietary and public data formats, structures, and sharing methods.
- A Computing Infrastructure Setup (SURF – D2.14) at medical centers and the test of a communication protocol.
- Ontology Development for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (UNIPD – D3.1), including the design of federated execution methods, as part of the Federated Learning Working Group.
- Medical Terminology Creation (UNL – D3.4), encompassing corpus construction, terminology extraction, and conceptual/lexical relations.
- The development of initial visualization components (TUGRAZ – D5.1 and D5.3) for sequences, networks, text, high-dimensional, spatial, image, and simulation data. Focusing on brain, gut microbiota, gut-brain, ALS, clustering and Droplets.
- The definition of Health Social Labs (OBSERVA – D6.1) and the implementation of the first ones.
- A preliminary overview of the legal and ethical requirements (KU LEUVEN – D7.1) for the HEREDITARY project.
- The launch of various communication channels (FEUGA – D8.1), aligned with the project’s communication strategy.
New year, new goals
This meeting serves as a launching pad for all that is yet to come during this exciting 2025. Some of them are:
- In 2025, we will have 25 new deliverables, the project maximum number of deliverables in one year.
- Several tasks will start during this year.
- Set up the federated learning and analytics infrastructure. Which must work in in testing environment, for which use cases 1 and 2 will be used. HEREDITARY must deliver concrete applications of federated infrastructure design.
- Develop the federated workflow execution engine on top of the federated data management infrastructure.
- The improvement in FAIRness, focusing on discoverability, for the participating data sources in HEREDITARY.
- We will also hold our first reporting to the European Commission in June 2025!
All this being said, 2025 is set to be a promising year in which together we will continue to make strides towards our goal to improve the way we approach healthcare.
Stay tuned for the latest news and updates!
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