University of Barcelona: Call for cardiovascular scientists to contribute data to multinational platform.
ENPNewswire-April 7, 2021--University of Barcelona: Call for cardiovascular scientists to contribute data to multinational platform
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Release date- 06042021 - University of Barcelona: The project euCanSHare, funded by the European Union and Canada, has launched the first international platform for sharing cardiovascular data.
Implemented by seventeen partners and led by the University of Barcelona and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the project will enable researchers on cardiology to use the platform for data browsing, deposit and analysis.
The platform brings together information on more than one million individuals from thirty-five 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.
Project coordinator Karim Lekadir, Ramon y Cajal postdoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona, says that 'euCanSHare is an unprecedented effort to create a long-awaited international data platform for more responsible sharing and more efficient exploitation of large-scale cardiovascular research studies across institutions. The platform will facilitate access to information on available cardiovascular datasets, while increasing trust through well-established and highly secure data management mechanisms.'
'euCanSHare provides the privacy and governance mechanisms for the secondary use of data,' says Bartha Maria Knoppers, from McGill University (Canada), who together with Pascal Borry, from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), leads the work package on ethics and interoperability.
The platform, which is hosted on the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre's (BSC's) cloud, holds metadata on social and demographic factors such as omics (DNA,RNA,proteins), as well as cardiac imaging, lifestyle behaviours, and clinical data including outcomes.
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide: ischaemic heart disease and stroke were responsible for the most deaths globally in 2019. The majority of heart attacks and strokes can be prevented with healthy lifestyles including physical activity and a nutritious diet, controlling body weight, and not smoking. Management is most effective when conditions are diagnosed early, and treatments are tailored to individual patients.
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