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Nordic Centres of Excellence (NCoE) is NordForsk’s most important funding instrument. The aim is to promote cooperation between outstanding research ers in the Nordic countries.
The Nordic Information for Action eScience Center (NIASC)
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Joakim Dillner is a professor of infectious epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, and the director of the NIASC. The centre comprises 16 partners from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Poland and Sweden
There is a need to develop computer-based tools to manage and analyse data from the health registries and biobanks. Such eScience tools would enhance the ability to calculate disease risk and provide a basis for customising health care services while increasing the efficiency and precision of both diagnostics and treatment. The objective of the Nordic Information for Action eScience Centre is to develop computer-based tools that allow easier tracking of Nordic biobank samples and data and enhance the capability to use data from national health registries and biobanks in the health care sector. The new tools are to be put into practice via a pilot project for improved, more cost-effective cancer screening programmes. The centre emphasises the importance of ethical aspects of these tools and will engage in widespread dissemination to the public in order to increase the transparency of research that draws upon biobanks and registries.
Three new Nordic Centres of Excellence NordForsk has appointed three new Nordic Centres of Excellence within eScience, focusing on Climate and Health research.
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