The Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) will join an international group of 22 leading genomic data initiatives working together to enable sharing of genomic and health-related data for research. The Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) has selected SPHN among its 2019 Driver Projects that aim to develop and pilot standards for sharing genomic and health-related data.
In December, Martin Fox has joined our team as a BioMedIT Project Manager. He will be working very closely with the experienced and knowledgeable IT and security specialists involved in BioMedIT, defining and managing implementation milestones within each project workstream, as well as monitoring the progress to ensure that the milestones are achieved.
During this second call for proposals, a total of 38 applications were received: 20 applications for Infrastructure development projects and 18 applications for Driver projects, including 6 applications that requested co-funding (SPHN and PHRT). The total budget requested for all project applications was CHF 31.8 million.
ETH Zürich: Heinz Stockinger (SIB) and Diana Coman Schmid (SIS) presented the first SPHN training course on Data Privacy and IT Security. Mandated and supported by the SPHN Data Coordination Centre (DCC), this training elaborates on what should be done in practice to protect the patient privacy when performing biomedical research.
The SIB and the SDSC are teaming up on developing software platforms, services and best practices for privacy-conscious data-driven science in the context of SPHN. In one of our BioMedIT Interoperability working group’s projects, the joint team will assess the domain-specific requirements for personalized health research in Switzerland.
SPHN is launching its second call for proposals with a submission deadline on 30 June 2018. More information
SPHN is a national initiative that contributes to the development, implementation and validation of a coordinated data infrastructure in order to make health-relevant data usable in Switzerland for research. At the end of 2017, collaboration agreements were concluded with all five University Hospitals. More information
During this first call for proposals, a total of 38 applications were received by 15 September 2017: 16 applications for Infrastructure Development projects and 22 applications for Driver projects, including 11 applications that requested co-funding (PHRT and SPHN). The total budget requested for all project applications was CHF 58.6 million.
SPHN is launching its first call for proposals aimed at the development of a national interoperable research infrastructure ecosystem for competitive personalized health research. More information