EUMEDCONNECT2 Supports e-Health Projects

 EUMEDCONNECT2 and the interconnection to its European counterpart GÉANT2 enable medical professionals across the Mediterranean to participate - on an equal footing with their peers in Europe and in other parts of the globe - in world-class research aimed at combating killer diseases, such as malaria, and at identifying effective treatment for medical disorders particularly common in the Mediterranean basin. 

Find out more about how EUMEDCONNECT2 supports health professionals in the case studies listed below.

EUMEDCONNECT2 contributes to better healthcare provision across the Mediterranean by: enhancing multi-party dialogue, supporting scientific workgroup meetings with video-conferencing encouraging the sharing of best practice, particularly with regard to clinical protocols facilitating practical tele-medicine such as remote consulting providing direct access to medical databases and libraries fostering innovative drug design via fast ‘in silico’ screening of millions of chemical compounds allowing clinical trials to be conducted across various research sites enabling time-saving, cost-effective remote training and ongoing professional development of medical practitioners

Case Studies (click on the title of the study to download the pdf)

 

ITHANET: e-infrastructures revolutionising thalassaemia treatment
Case study describing EUMEDCONNECT2’s support for innovative drug development to cure thalassaemia, a blood-related disease particularly common in the Mediterranean basin, and to reduce dependency on expensive and frequently unsafe blood transfusion.

WISDOM: e-infrastructures speed up the hunt for new malaria drugs  
Case study describing how EUMEDCONNECT2 and its predecessor network enable an ever-widening group of Mediterranean countries to participate in world-class research aimed at identifying new drugs to treat malaria and other emergent diseases such as avian flu by contributing computational resources to massive biomedical data challenges.

EuMed Cancer-GeMed Network: supporting medical e-learning in the Mediterranean region  
Case study describing EUMEDCONNECT's support for a pioneering e-learning training programme in genetics.