The aim of Health-RI is to accelerate the development of personalized medicine and health solutions by connecting research data infrastructures. Studying and integrating highly diverse collections of longitudinal biomedical data, generated at different hospitals and research centers in the Netherlands, are required to empower researchers in developing more effective personalized health solutions. These data collections are often fragmented and hard to find. Therefore, Health-RI wants to unlock and interconnect the different biomedical sources available.
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About Health-RI
Health-RI is an innovative and integrated research infrastructure initiated by BBMRI-NL, ELIXIR-NL, EATRIS-NL, NFU, DTL, Lygature, and Health~Holland. This research infrastructure is initiated to connect the existing biomedical research infrastructures in the Netherlands. The ultimate aim of Health-RI is to function as a one-stop-shop for researchers in the personalized health domain and beyond. Health-RI will interconnect biobanks, medical imaging and data collections allowing for mining and linking, and will provide access to facilities and IT solutions. Besides sharing and connecting resources, Health-RI will support research projects with tools as ethical and legal services, methodologies, data management training, protocols and best practices. To ensure the quality and effectiveness of the infrastructure, all resources must be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). By creating the interconnected national Health-RI infrastructure, tools and resources will be at researchers’ fingertips to faster develop novel personalized medicine and health solutions. Visit the Health-RI website for more information about the project.
Connecting health research infrastructures
Lygature is one of the founding partners of the Health-RI project. With its extensive experience in managing complex health infrastructure projects (such as TraIT, PSI and BBMRI-NL) and its excellent program management skills, Lygature is responsible for strategy, program management and communication.
- Strategy. Together with the other founding partners, Lygature initiated Health-RI to interconnect the different research infrastructures and boost innovation in the field of personalized medicine and health. Together with the other partners Lygature is responsible for the strategy of Health-RI.
- Program management. Lygature handles strategic and day-to-day operations including administrative and financial roles. It is responsible for managing and monitoring the program on a day-to-day basis. This includes optimizing internal processes and looking for funding opportunities and collaborations.
- Communication. Lygature is responsible for the communication strategy, stakeholder management and communication tools supporting the Health-RI strategy.
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Project updates
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Welcome to Leone Flikweert, new member of Health-RI Management Board
We asked her to write a short introduction. Who is Leone and what are the skills with which she complements the Management Board?
“Hi I am Leone Flikweert (mr. drs. M.J Flikweert) 49, interim manager, with a focus on marketing, legal, and commercial aspects in a not-for-profit environment.
I am honored to be asked as the ‘kwartiermaker’ for Health-RI, at least till the end of 2019. -
Enabling FAIR data management
Many clinical professionals and biomedical researchers without a bioinformatics background are generating big ’-omics’ data, but do not always have the tools to manage, process or publicly share these data. Read about the joint BBMRI-NL effort on FAIR data management tooling in the new publication on MOLGENIS. Its title: “MOLGENIS Research: Advanced bioinformatics data software for non-bioinformaticians”.
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DTL Communities@Work Conference
On 2 October 2018, DTL will organize its Communities @ Work conference in Utrecht. The meeting will feature lectures, interactive workshops, poster presentations, stakeholder and sponsor booths, and offers ample network opportunities. Health-RI is co-organizer of several data science workshops.