BioMedBridges will enhance the excellence of the individual biomedical sciences infrastructures and will ensure good coordination across the different domains by building concrete e-bridges linking them and thus providing a complex knowledge environment comprising standards, ontologies, data and services.
Empowerment of world-class research in Europe in biology and medicine
- New discoveries that would not be possible without these bridges
- Tackling of more challenging problems with a higher level of complexity
- More efficient research provided by easier access to current knowledge
- Improved interdisciplinarity, merging of heterogeneous data
- Access to cutting-edge e-technology platforms for academia and industry
- Improved data security and regulation, by having defined common standards and defined protocols for data access and sharing
Better translation between basic biology and clinical research and practice
- Improved drug target discovery
- Improved drug target validation
- Improved design of new (better and safer) therapeutics
Better communication and integration between different communities
- Basic biologists & clinical researchers
- BMS and ICT communities
- Creating an unprecedented and unique momentum for life sciences in Europe
Increase Europe’s competitiveness
- Empower European Research and Innovation - interaction and communication are key actions identified to consolidate the European Research Area and are at the heart of BioMedBridges
Financial efficiencies
- Add value to existing national investments and exploit economies of scale
- Better exploitation of data – leveraging past investments
- Sharing costs of standards developments
- Sharing of technologies and expertise, preventing reinvention and duplication
- Sharing of computing infrastructures, reducing wasteful duplication
Tools for improved translation to industry
- enhance commercial exploitation of data, boosting European bio-industries
- Encourage the world’s best scientists to work in Europe (reduce the brain drain and enhance the brain gain)
- Promote technology transfer, as well as new enterprises and “technology parks”, to support growth in the regions.
Strengthening the European Research Area
- By coordinating and linking the nodes of these distributed infrastructures
- By spreading expertise amongst member states
Improving international research competitiveness
- By strengthening Europe’s voice in international consortia
- By combining expertise across national boundaries and scientific domains
- By assembling a critical mass of experts, with a common goal
- By working at the interface of biology and medicine, which is the area most likely to achieve major advances in the next decade.