Key Contributors Update, 8 May 2020

This update is sent weekly on Friday afternoon and goes to ELIXIR key stakeholders. It contains requests for actions regarding operations and developments within ELIXIR. Contact joana.wingender@elixir-europe.org for any questions.

An ELIXIR HoNs shared folder including meeting materials from HoN meetings, reference documents, slides & graphics archive can be found on Google Drive.

For Action: New

AI for Genomics and Personalised Medicine call (DT-TDS-04-2020)

We have been approached by John Rowell, the Head of International Research Development Direction Recherche, Instuitute Gustave Roussy (IGR) (John.ROWELL@gustaveroussy.fr) to inform us that the Karolinska and IGR are creating an application for the AI for Genomics and Personalised Medicine call (DT-TDS-04-2020).

They would like to have ELIXIR Node participation to contribute to developing cross border infrastructure for sharing clinical genomics standards. Their proposal will work towards learning and validation of predictive cancer biomarkers in a multi-center federated framework.

If your Node is interested in joining this consortia, please contact John Hancock (john.hancock@elixir-europe.org) and please inform Juan Arenas (juan.arenas@elixir-europe.org).

For Information

The Programme for the virtual ELIXIR All Hands is now available on ELIXIR webpage.

Due to the re-organisation to a virtual All Hands meeting, the Heads of Nodes meeting, originally scheduled for 9 June, will be cancelled.

We would like to thank the participants of the ELIXIR Heads of Nodes Teleconference, which took place on Wednesday this week.

The agenda for the upcoming consultations with Heads of Nodes will be circulated next week.

Many thanks to those who submitted their evaluations for the third round of Selection of ELIXIR Core Data Resources and Deposition Databases.

The face-to-face review meeting, where the CDR selections will be made, is scheduled to take place 27 October 2020 at Schiphol Airport.

For questions, please contact Jerry (jerry.lanfear@elixir-europe.org).

Key Dates and Meetings

Consultations with Heads of Nodes

19 May 2020 | 10:00 - 11:00 (WEST) / 11:00 - 12:00 (CEST)
28 May 2020 | 11:00 - 12:00 (WEST) / 12:00 - 13:99 (CEST)

Heads of Nodes TC

10 September 2020 | 9:30-12:30 (WEST) / 10:30-13:30 (CEST)

ELIXIR CDR and EDD ranking meeting

27 October 2020 | Amsterdam

Heads of Nodes TC

3 December 2020