Call for Candidatures – Closed
December 2019 During the review of the SPHN initiative over the last 9 months, several gaps were identified in the SPHN infrastructure landscape with ...
Read More New online course: SPHN Data Privacy & IT Security
October 2019 Within the Swiss Personalized Health Network and related national initiatives, researchers use patient data (i.e. confidential human data) in their research projects. ...
Read More SPHN at a glance: new fact-sheet 2019
The new SPHN fact-sheet 2019 aligns all stakeholders on the vision, the mandate, the national governance, and the implementation of SPHN. This large-scale, national ...
Read More Defining principles in close dialogue with research – the work of the expert working groups
To ensure nationwide interoperability of biomedical data, a variety of technical and semantic challenges need to be addressed, ranging from the agreement on common ...
Read More BioMedIT: Progress towards achieving interoperability of scientific computing facilities
Progress towards achieving interoperability of scientific computing facilities, orchestrated by the Swiss Personalized Health Network Data Coordination Centre. The key objective of the SPHN ...
Read More Common templates to facilitate data and material exchange
SPHN and Swiss Biobanking Platform (SBP) have worked in close collaboration to deliver Data Transfer and Use Agreement and Material Transfer Agreement templates to ...
Read More Welcome to Katrin Crameri and Kristin Gnodtke
Following Prof. Torsten Schwede’s appointment as Vice President for Research at the University of Basel, we are very happy to announce that Dr. Katrin Crameri succeeds him as ...
Read More Onboarding the project teams of the 2nd SPHN Call for Proposals
The Personalized Health Informatics group (PHI) together with the SPHN Management Office (MO) hosted the representatives of the newly funded projects during the 2nd ...
Read More Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) named a 2019 GA4GH Driver Project
Personalized health research is essential to the development of our knowledge about the treatment and prevention of diseases. For this, it is necessary to ...
Read More BioMedIT project management: a warm welcome to Martin Fox
In December, Martin Fox has joined our team as a BioMedIT Project Manager and he is a perfect fit for a number of reasons. With over ...
Read More Results of the call for proposals 2018 coordinated with PHRT
During this second call for proposals, a total of 38 applications were received: 20 applications for Infrastructure development projects and 18 applications for Driver ...
Read More First SPHN training on Data Privacy and IT Security
Access to patient data for research has great potential for making biomedical discoveries. At the same time, protecting individuals’ privacy is a critical obligation ...
Read More Collaboration with the Swiss Data Science Centre
The SIB Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics and the SDSC are teaming up on developing software platforms, services and best practices for privacy-conscious, data-driven science in the context ...
Read More Second call for proposals
SPHN is launching its second call for proposals with a submission deadline on 30 June 2018. More information
Read More A strong signal from the University Hospitals
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 ...
Read More Results of the call for proposals 2017 coordinated with PHRT
During this first call for proposals, a total of 38 applications were received by 15 September 2017: 16 applications for Infrastructure Development projects and ...
Read More First call for proposals
SPHN is launching its first call for proposals aimed at the development of a national interoperable research infrastructure ecosystem for competitive personalized health research. ...
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