Breadcrumb

null New international platform for sharing cardiovascular data

Bartha Maria Knoppers to co-lead work package on ethics and interoperability

Bartha Maria Knoppers is a member of the Child Health and Human Development Program at the Research Institute of the MUHC
Bartha Maria Knoppers is a member of the Child Health and Human Development Program at the Research Institute of the MUHC

Source: Health E-News. Bartha Maria Knoppers, Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University and an investigator at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), will co-lead the work package on ethics and interoperability as part of the first international platform for sharing cardiovascular data. The platform was recently launched by euCanSHare, a joint European Union-Canada project based at the University of Barcelona.

The project brings together information on more than one million individuals from 35 cardiovascular cohorts in the EU, Canada and beyond. It aims to accelerate research in personalised medicine for cardiovascular disease and to promote the responsible exchange of data while reducing cultural, behavioural and technological barriers to Open Science. Read more.

April 6, 2021