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Projects led by Isabel Fortier and Bartha Knoppers will share human data to advance the understanding of cancer and chronic disease

July 5, 2019

Source: MedE-News. Two members of the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) are among the recipients recently announced for several European funding programs in which the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research are partners. Isabel Fortier, PhD, and Bartha Knoppers, PhD, each had projects funded in the amount of $800,000 under the Canada-EU Commission Flagship Collaboration in the domain of storage, integration and sharing of human data. 

Isabel Fortier’s project is titled “A federated FAIR platform enabling large-scale analysis of high-value cohort data connecting Europe and Canada in personalized health (EUCAN-Connect),” and Bartha Knoppers will study “An EU-Canada joint infrastructure for next-generation multi-Study Heart research (euCanSHare).” Both researchers are members of the Child Health and Human Development Program at the RI-MUHC. Read more here.

Isabel Fortier, PhD (left), and Bartha Knoppers, PhD, are members of the Child Health and Human Development Program at the Research Institute of the MUHC