BioMedBridges

Lead by European Molecular Biology Laboratory: BioMedBridges (Building data bridges and services between biological and medical infrastructures in Europe) will form a cluster of the emerging biomedical sciences research infrastructures (BMS RIs) and construct the data and service bridges needed to connect them.

The BMS RIs are on the ESFRI (European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure) roadmap. The missions of the BMS RIs stretch from structural biology of specific biomolecules to clinical trials involving thousands of human patients. Most serve a specific part of the vast biological and medical research community, estimated to be at least two million scientists in Europe across more than 1,000 institutions from more than 36 ESFRI Member States and Associated Countries. Each of them brings together its own large community of users to build a coordinated infrastructure.

This process has already had a major impact on coordination of national infrastructures within each member state. Essentially all BMS RIs are distributed infrastructures, with nodes in many European member states.

List of Participants

European Molecular Biology Laboratory/ELIXIR, University of Oxford, Karolinska Institutet, Science and Technology Facilites Council, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Leibnitz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Technische Universität München, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohm, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, Technologie- und Methodenplattform für die vernetzte medizinische Forschung e.V, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Medizinische Universität Graz, Stichting VU-VUmc, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, University of Copenhagen, University of Helsinki/Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, European Grid Infrastructure, CSC-IT Center for Science Ltd., University Medical Center Groningen, Consorzio Interuniversitario di Risonanze Magnetiche di Metalloproteine, Delivery of Advanced Network Technology to Europe