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Dr Maria del Mar Mañú-Pereira is the head of rare anemia disorders research laboratory in translation research group on cancer and blood disorders in children at Vall d'Hebrón Research Intitute - University hospital Vall d'Hebrón in Barcelona (Spain). She is also the Scientific Coordinator of the European Reference Network on Rare Hematological Disorders ERN-EuroBloodNet, in charge of the definition and implementation of the network scientific strategy and the relations with the European structures for data sharing and the EC-Joint Research Centre, and the coordinator of its European platform of patients' registries on rare hematological disorders, ENROL, and of Rare Anaemia Disorders European Platform, RADeep. She also leads Work Package 3 on patient centered research in the European Rare Disease Research Coordination and Support Action consortium, ERICA. Dr Maria del Mar Mañú-Pereira graduated in Biomedical sciences and specialised in Human Genetics. She obtained her PhD in 2009, with a thesis on epidemiological and molecular genetics studies in the newborn population for rare anemia disorders. In the field of translational research, Dr Mañú-Pereira is focused on development of innovative methodologies; X-omics, red blood cell rheology and mechanical properties characterization, microfluidics and organ-on-chip for integrative diagnosis and personalize medicine. In this context, she is principal investigator of European Commission funded projects EVIDENCE, Erythrocytes Properties And Viability In Dependence Of Flow And Extra-Cellular Environment, GENOMED4ALL, Genomics and Personalized Medicine for all though Artificial Intelligence in Haematological Diseases through a European federated learning platform and SYNTHEMA, Synthetic generation of hematological data over federated computing frameworks to further enhance diagnostic capacity, assess treatment options and predict outcomes in rare hematological diseases.
Federico Álvarez is Telecom Engineer with honours (2003) and Ph. D. (2009), both by the "Universidad Politécnica de Madrid". He is working as a Full Professor in UPM, in the area of media communications and applied AI. He is the head of the Visual Telecommunications Applications group (GATV) in UPM. He funded 3 startups in the last 10 years in the area of media technologies and AI for health. He was visiting researcher in the Institut für Rundfunktechnik (Munich) in 2006. Prof. Álvarez has a long track record in the EU research, especially in the areas of AI applied to media and health sectors. He is nowadays the coordinator in the EU programme Horizon 2020 of GenoMED4ALL (AI for Genomics and personalized medicine), RESCUER (AI for situation awareness of first responders), EU4Child (AI for Childhood Cancer research) and TeNDER (AI oriented to cognitive diseases care). He has been in the last 10 years also leading the UPM participation in more than 20 EU funded projects in such areas. He worked as expert for different national research funding agencies worldwide including the European Commission, and for the European Institute for Prospective Technological Studies. He had taken part in standardisation bodies such as DVB-ETSI or CENELEC. He is author and co-author of (110+) papers in journals, congresses and books in the field of ICT and AI technologies. He is serving in the Programme Committee of several congresses and as reviewer of scientific journals.
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