On 13 and 14 September the COST action in Open Multiscale Systems Medicine (OpenMultiMed), E-COST CA15120 held its meeting at the University of Malta Valletta Campus.
The meeting consisted of plenary sessions, working group sessions and a management committee meeting (MCM). Ongoing research in the field was presented during the plenary sessions as well as during the working group sessions, and these stimulated a lot of interesting discussion and concrete actions for future collaborative work. The MCM was very structured and showed that considerable progress has been achieved for a number of objectives. The meeting was followed by a joint session at the European Association for Predictive, Preventive & Personalized Medicine (EPMA) Congress on Friday, 15 September.
This COST action is made up of a transdisciplinary team of international researchers from the medical, mathematics and informatics fields with the aim of developing a framework for multiscale systems medicine, consisting of novel concepts, methodologies and technologies. An open-science approach will provide accessible scientific research data in multiscale systems medicine for more effective health promotion, disease prevention and therapy.
The action is divided into four working groups: Systems Medicine, Multiscale Modelling, Multiscale Computing and Multiscale Data Science. The action has its own open-access scientific journal: (Co-Editors-in-Chief: H. Schmidt & J. Baumbach;), and several position and research papers are in the pipeline.
