Life sciences

The area focuses on research and development activities in the fields of bioinformatics, systems, biology, and sensors for cancer and neurodegenerative disorders, biological data modeling, biomarkers and drug targets discovery, and biological image analysis.

Specific research topics in this area are:

  1. Bioinformatics, biological and molecular imaging
  2. Biological system modeling and simulation
  3. High-throughput data mining for biomedical applications, classification, and clustering
  4. Computational tools for the exploration of genomic and proteomic data
  5. Health care systems

ERC sectors

  • LS2_12 Bioinformatics
  • LS2_13 Computational biology
  • LS2_14 Biostatistics
  • LS2_15 Systems biology
  • LS5_4 Sensation and perception
  • LS5_6 Neural bases of behaviour
  • LS5_7 Neurological disorders

Keywords

  • Network biology
  • Systems biology
  • Neurodegenerative disorders
  • Personalized medicine