The first face-to-face meeting of the project since 2020 was held in Barcelona in June 2022, featuring the First Edition of the eTRANSAFE Awards
Adrián Rodrigo, Enric Bousoño, Fabián Avilés, Antonio Pérez, Miguel Ferreira (GMV), Nicolas Bosc (EMBL-EBI), Frank Bringezu (Merck) – Winners of the 1st eTRANSAFE Awards.
The eTRANSAFE partners gathered for the 15th Consortium Meeting in Barcelona on Thursday and Friday 9-10 of June 2022.
eTRANSAFE focuses on translational safety evaluation and aims to provide in silico solutions for identifying when and by how much the preclinical toxicological observations can predict clinical adverse drug reactions. In the close to five years of project duration to date, the consortium has been building a series of IT modules as a response to these challenges, with a central platform called ToxHub.
The main aim of this first face-to-face meeting since 2020 was to showcase the latest advances of the platform and foster interaction between the developing team and end-users. This was accomplished through a series of interactive use cases and workshops, which the meeting participants followed from their laptops.
Synapse was in charge of the event organization and coordination, also leading plenary sessions on project management and sustainability aspects.
Inari Soininen, Senior Project Manager at Synapse, says: “As the first face-to-face meeting in over two years, the 15th CM was an important milestone for the progress of the project activities, allowing to foster meaningful exchanges between consortium members. Our role as organizers was to provide an adequate setting and technical and organizational framework to support these interactions. We are happy to have contributed to what has been evaluated as a very productive and successful event by the participants.”
One of the meeting highlights was the eTRANSAFE Awards ceremony. In this first Edition, three awards were granted to consortium members who had made outstanding contributions to the project in three categories: Outstanding Individual Academic Contribution (Nicolas Bosc, EMBL-EBI), Outstanding Individual Industry Contribution (Frank Bringezu, Merck) and Outstanding Team Contribution (GMV). The awardees collected their gifts and diplomas on stage, to the sound of applause from the consortium members.
We congratulate the Award winners and thank all the meeting participants for making the 15th CM a successful event. Looking forward to seeing everyone again for the next edition in October!
• Senior communications/PR professional who has built and led regional corporate communications teams at major global companies in the healthcare, financial services, food & beverage, and packaging sectors.
• University degree in Advertising and Public Relationships, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
• University degree in Industrial Engineering, Universidad Tecnológica Nacional.
• Master in Corporate Communication, Protocol and Events, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
• BSc in Biology by the University of Barcelona, complemented by a Master degree in “Basic fundamentals of oncogenesis” by the University of Paris VI and Master in Business and Administration by the ESG (Paris).
• Ph.D. Medical Informatics.
• University degree in Political and Administration Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Communication from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and in Journalism from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
• University degree in Political Science and International Relations, Universidad Nacional de Rosario.
• PhD in Psychology, University of Edinburgh.
• University degree in Nursing, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
• University double degree in Law & Political Sciences, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
• University degree in Telecommunication Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
• University degree in Business Administration, University of Barcelona.
• Ph.D. in Molecular Toxicology, University of Colorado Boulder.
• B.A. in Economics with Honors and Distinction from Stanford University.
• University degree in Tourism, Universitat de Barcelona.
• Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• University degree in Psychology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
• University degree in Social Sciences, Universidad de Vigo.
• University degree in Economy and Business Administration (Extraordinary Award), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.