The talk is held at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Oxford on Wednesday the 23rd of May 2018.
CompBioMed and the Spanish Network of Excellence, The Virtual Heart (VHeart) are holding a Joint Workshop that takes place on the 28th of March. This will involve a mix of speakers from VHeart and CompBioMed.
CompBioMed is a High Performance Centre of Research Excellence in Computational Biomedicine. This Centre of Excellence (CoE) aims at promoting the role of computationally based modelling and simulation in biomedicine. Three related user communities lie at the heart of the CoE: academic, industrial and clinical researchers who all wish to build, develop and extend such capabilities in line with the increasing power of high performance computers. Three distinct exemplar research areas will be pursued: cardiovascular, molecularly-based and neuro-musculoskeletal medicine.
VHeart is a Spanish Network of Excellence aimed at sharing tools and software with members of the network to improve the overall knowledge and capacity to develop a personalised virtual heart. It is made of 9 universities and research centres throughout Spain.
The workshop is to bring together these two project and to share the combined knowledge of the participants in the fields of Cardiac modelling, fluid-solid interactions and biomedical flows.
The Multiscale modelling in electrophysiology: from atoms to organs workshop is taking place on March 26, 2018 to March 28, 2018, at CECAM-Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland.
This workshop brings together chemists, physicists, engineers and biologists working in different aspects of ion channels with the aim of establishing links and foster collaboration between basic science researchers and those in bioengineering and medicine. Progress in this area will be realized with the availability of suitable computational techniques, and new developments will be covered.
Elisa Passini is giving a talk entitled "In silico human-based methodologies for evaluation of drug cardiac safety and efficacy" under the session "Showcasing NC3Rs funded research: 3Rs model development in cardiovascular sciences".
The National Centre for the 3Rs (NC3Rs) – an organisation dedicated to replacing, refining and reducing the use of animals in research and testing – has awarded its top prize for a research paper by the Computational Cardiovascular Science team, at the University of Oxford.
The International 3Rs prize was awarded for research which developed original software that predicts the clinical risk of drug-induced side effects for the heart with higher accuracy than animal experiments. The software is based on human data, rather than animal data: this improves how test results translate to humans and reduces the need for animal experimentation. Rather than a one-model-fits-all, this software uses a population-based approach, which is an important step towards personalised medicine.
Several companies in the pharmaceutical industry are already using the Virtual Assay software with promising results, and collaboration with industry is ongoing.
The 3Rs prize, sponsored by GSK, was presented for the research paper by Dr Elisa Passini and colleagues from the Computational Cardiovascular Science team and Janssen Pharmaceutical at a ceremony on 12 March.
The winning research builds on work by the same team, awarded the 3Rs Prize in 2014. Dr Oliver Britton and colleagues then established a computer model that incorporated variations in ‘normal’ heart electrophysiological properties based on existing data from rabbit Purkinje fibres (cardiac cells).
Virtual Assay is now available for download in the Oxford University Innovation Store and you can find the prize-winning research paper here.
The Comprehensive in-vitro Proarrhythmia Assay (CiPA) in-silico Working Group is holding a meeting on 9th November in Toronto alongside the Cardiac Physiome Workshop (7-8th November). The meeting will discuss the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) modelling group's work on the mathematical modelling aspects of the initative, gather feedback, hear new ideas and stimulate further collaborations.
CiPA is an international initiative, launched in 2013 by the US Food and Drug Administration, other drug regulatory agencies, industry and academic collaborators, to develop and validate a new mechanistic, in vitro and in silico paradigm for evaluating the proarrhythmic risk of new drugs. CiPA studies include ion channel effects in cell lines combined with mathematical action potential modelling to predict the effect of multiple ion channel block and associated pro-arrhythmic risk, and to check the integrated effect with stem-cell derived cardiomyocyte measurements. The CiPA project website is http://cipaproject.org/
Elisa Passini received the Technological Innovation Award at the Safety Pharmacology Society Meeting 2017 for “Virtual Assay: a User-Friendly Framework for In Silico Drug Trials in Populations of Human Cardiomyocyte Models” (Elisa Passini, Oliver Britton, Alfonso Bueno-Orovio, Blanca Rodriguez.)
The Computational Cardiovascular Science team at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, in collaboration with Oxford Computer Consultants and supported by a EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award has developed this a user-friendly software for In Silico drug trials, using populations of human cardiac cellular models based on well-understood human cardiac physiology. The human cell populations are calibrated against experimental data and used to predict the effects of different pharmaceutical agents on human cellular response at the population level. Several major companies in the pharmaceutical industry are already using the software with promising results.
This award is a recognition to the importance of In Silico models in Safety Pharmacology.
The Safety Pharmacology Society Annual Meeting is held in Berlin, 24-27 September 2017.
The 2017 Scientific Program of the Safety Pharmacology Society Annual Meeting features a diverse range of scientific sessions organized into two themed tracks and covering issues such as Addressing Safety in Oncology, Translational Safety Pharmacology, Suicidality, New Modalities and New Biological Entities, Disease Models/Personalized Medicine, Microphysiological Systems - New Technologies, In Silico Modeling, Right Species-Right Time, Changing Regulatory Environment among others.
This meeting is a great opportunity to push together towards in silico human cardiac models drug safety and efficacy.
Virtual Assay: a User-Friendly Framework for In Silico Drug Trials in Populations of Human Cardiomyocyte Models has been selected as a finalist for the SPS 2017 Technological Innovation Award.
The winner will be announced at the SPS Annual Meeting Meeting in Berlin on Wednesday, September 27 at 08:30.
The EHRA EUROPACE – CARDIOSTIM 2017 programme is designed to provide attendees with the latest in science and education in the field of cardiac rhythm disorders and therapies. During this four days congress, highly acclaimed scientific sessions will cover all aspects of pacing and electrophysiology. Delegates will also have the chance to discover new research, learn from world renowned experts and exchange with colleagues and peers.
Blanca Rodriguez is an invited speaker on the EHRA EUROPACE-CARDIOSTIM Congress and she is delivering a talk on: “Computational prediction of acquired Long QT and drug-induced Torsades de Pointes.” on the session “the power of electronic health records and computational technologies”.
This project "In Silico human-based methodologies for evaluation of drug safety and efficacy" has received funding from The National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research
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