by Admin | Jul 8, 2025 | Hereditary
The HEREDITARY project is featured in the latest episode of Brain Talks, the podcast series by Brain Innovation Days, which brings together leading voices in brain research and innovation. Each episode provides a window into the latest developments in brain science, from research breakthroughs and technological advances to regulatory topics and patient engagement. In this recently released episode, HEREDITARY takes center stage to explore the role of trustworthy AI in transforming brain science.
HEREDITARY on Air
In episode 8 of the fourth season, HEREDITARY is featured in a compelling discussion on the key areas of the project, such as AI, advanced analytics, multimodal health data, data privacy and security. Hosted by Sam Pauly, the episode features Elisabetta Biasin, Researcher in the HEREDITARY Project at KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP) and Helena Ledmyr, Director at International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF).
In the episode, they reflect on HEREDITARY’s ambition to harness AI and multimodal health data in an innovative, responsible and transparent way. The conversation explains the legal and ethical dimensions of data use, the importance of earning public trust, and how projects like HEREDITARY can help position Europe as a leader in citizen-centered brain research. They discuss the technical, legal and behavioral challenges that come with using sensitive health data, supporting the role of emerging European frameworks such as the European Health Data Space, which seeks to promote secure and ethical data sharing across the EU.
Listen to the full episode HERE!
HEREDITARY at the Brain Innovation Days 2025: Join Us at Our World Café
The podcast episode is a preview of HEREDITARY’s wider participation in the Brain Innovation Days 2025, where the project will host an interactive World Café session. This engaging format will allow attendees to explore HEREDITARY’s approach to responsible AI, discuss ethical and legal considerations in data-driven neuroscience, and connect with project partners from across Europe.
Join us in Brussels this October to discover how HEREDITARY is shaping the future of brain research through responsible innovation.
The Brain Innovation Days 2025
The Brain Innovation Days is an annual event organized by the European Brain Council, designed to address some of the most pressing challenges in brain health. With neurological and mental disorders affecting more than one billion people globally (and innovation in the field often underfunded) the Brain Innovation Days aims to foster dialogue, collaboration, and investment among researchers, policymakers, industry leaders and patients.
The next edition of the event will take place on 15–16 October 2025 at La Tricoterie in Brussels, serving as a dynamic platform for bringing the brain ecosystem together to exchange knowledge and accelerate investment in research and innovation.
Check the programme HERE.
If you are interested in taking part in this event, GET YOUR TICKETS HERE.
by Admin | Dec 5, 2024 | Hereditary
We are delighted to introduce our latest video series, made by our partner Observa in the framework of the HEREDITARY project. Guided by Stephen McNamara, a research instructor at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, we delve into the potential of AI for early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases and ways of communicating with patients and the public.
Each video offers a closer look at the research group’s objectives, methodology, and layers, helping you to understand the impact of this pioneering work on healthcare and data research.
This video series is part of the HEREDITARY voices series.
Episode 1. Clinical tools for diagnosis
In this first episode, Stephen McNamara explains how they are trying to find ocular biomarkers that are able to connect imaging in the eye to broader systemic diseases, such as Parkinson. By looking at images and scans from the back of the eye, they can ultimately determine whether someone has a neurodegenerative disease now or in a near future. In that way, invasive imaging or testing can be avoided, eliminating the uncertainties surrounding these diagnoses.
Episode 2. The Eye: The mirror of the body
The research group is making diagnoses and establishing connections between the whole body from a detailed analysis of the eye. By doing so, it increases certainty about different diseases, improves predictions and helps patients receive specific therapies and treatments.
Episode 3. Information, AI and Decision Making
Information is key, not only to train models to make better disease predictions, but also to ensure that patients are aware of these new scientific treatments and how it can affect their lives. Transparency becomes increasingly relevant in a world where AI is a new and evolving feature.
by Admin | Nov 13, 2024 | Hereditary
We are delighted to introduce our latest video series, made by our partner Observa, where we delve into the research of the HEREDITARY project, guided by our esteemed coordinator, Gianmaria Silvello from the University of Padua (UNIPD). Gianmaria Silvello is a computer science engineer researcher at Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua. His research spans knowledge management, intelligent information systems, information access, algorithmic fairness, digital libraries and data provenance and citation. Each video offers a closer look at the project’s objectives, methodology, and layers, helping you to understand the impact of this pioneering work on healthcare and data research. This video series is part of the HEREDITARY voices series.
Episode 1. The project approach
In this first episode, Gianmaria explains the focus of the project, the interaction between the gut and the brain, and its main challenge: integrating multilingual and multimodal data distributed across several centres. To meet this challenge, the project will rely on federated learning and federated analytics techniques.
Episode 2. Federated learning
Federated learning is a machine learning technique that aims to train a model under the principles of collaboration between multiple entities to ensure that information remains decentralized, reinforcing privacy and security.
Episode 3. Semantic data integration
Hereditary aims to simplify the way we interact with data in order to achieve a better understanding of it. One of the project main goals is to make data accessible to everyone through a common, accessible language. Therefore, we’ll be able to treat multiple neurological diseases in a unified way, using the same terms or ideas and getting answers that everyone understands.
Episode 4. Expected results
Gianmaria talks about Hereditary’s approach to achieving its main holistic goal around gut-brain interplay. Connections between different data from many different perspectives are processed and combined with previously obtained patient information and literature knowledge to illuminate specific aspects of the diseases we didn’t know about before. This will provide a better picture to ultimately find new treatments and better diagnoses.
Episode 5. Artificial Intelligence
AI has a central role in the Hereditary project. Deep learning algorithms are being used to process, classify and establish relations between the different elements. Generative AI is also taken into account to extract information from texts, but also to generate new ones. AI is used in many different ways and at different levels, without forgetting that the previous data management and processing is fundamental for the AI to work properly.
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