STOA delegation virtual visit to the Joint Research Centre
Scientific and technological advances lie at the heart of economic growth, and will be key to the economic recovery post-coronavirus. In line with their mission to support technological innovation, the legislators on the European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) recently took part in a virtual visit to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) site at Ispra, Italy – Europe’s leading research campus with a wide range of laboratories and unique research infrastructures. The JRC’s operations at Ispra are geared to providing science-based responses to policy challenges with scientific, technological and socio-economic dimensions, with a number of their key research areas being of particular relevance and interest to STOA, including their research on the economics of climate change, on energy efficiency and transport, and on knowledge for growth.
While Europe mulls multiple praiseworthy schemes to limit the damage inflicted by cancer, one of the most promising avenues is being neglected – and many Europeans are dying unnecessarily as a consequence. Lung cancer, the biggest cancer killer, is still on the loose, largely unchecked, and the most effective method for combating it – screening […]
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03 February 2021
by eub2 last modified 03 February 2021
The European Commission presented on 3 February Europe s Beating Cancer Plan, a new EU approach to cancer prevention, treatment and care.
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EAPM: Europe Beating Cancer Plan takes disease in hand, but lung cancer screening must be stressed more
Published 2 months ago
Good morning health colleagues, and welcome to the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) update. Naturally, there is much focus in these troubled times on the coronavirus pandemic that is sweeping the world, but EAPM is still very much also focused on the pandemic of cancer, particularly ahead of the formal launch of the Europe Beating Cancer Plan on 3 February. Read on for more information,
writes EAPM Executive Director Dr. Denis Horgan.
EAPM round table
Registration is open for the European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) ‘virtual’ event, held online next week, on 3 February, 9h30 – 11h CET. The round table is entitled