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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Major Investments in Netherlands X-Omics initiative
To realize an integrated X-omics research infrastructure across the Netherlands, globally renowned Dutch leaders in the field of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and data integration & analysis, join forces in the Netherlands X-Omics initiative.
Integrating quantitative data from different pools of biological molecules (omics) is key to developing novel personalized health solutions. On April 12th, 2018, the Netherlands X-Omics Initiative has been awarded a EUR 17 million infrastructure grant as part of the NWO call for Large Scale Research Infrastructures.
Coordinator of the initiative and Health-RI steering group member, Alain van Gool (Radboud UMC) puts major emphasis on enabling the integration of omics data, through the implementation of (quality) protocols and FAIR data standards, data integration, and modelling. This will ultimately allow analysis, complex and dynamic, of different data types from healthy and diseased subjects. The X-Omics initiative is a major building block in constructing Health-RI.
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Research infrastructure is key component in Dutch Research Roadmaps for health
Now is the moment to invest heavily in order to solve the major societal challenges related to health. That is the key message across the three Research Roadmaps that have been presented to Ingrid van Engelshoven, Minister of Education, Culture and Science, and Paul Blokhuis, State Secretary for Health, Welfare and Sport. Read more
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Health-RI highlighted in Health~Holland’s Year in Review 2017
The yearly magazine reflects on the developments from Top Sector Life Sciences & Health, and includes a selection of success stories and ground breaking innovations in the sector. The Health-RI business plan, which lays the foundations for personalised health in the Netherlands, is highlighted in the magazine. Read more