October 2024

We are pleased to inform you that the Disc4All Project has a new Doctor!

We congratulate Dr. SAI NATARAJAN THRISSUR RANGANATHAN, who defended his dissertation on October 29th and obtained the grade of Excellent.

As well, we congratulate his thesis supervisors Dr. Miguel Ángel González Ballester and Dr. Ludovic Humbert (3D Shaper Medical S.L.)

Thesis title: High resolution 3D modelling of lumbar spine from MRI using deep learning Committee: President: Dr. Simo Saarakkala (University of Oulu, Finland)

Secretary: Dr. Federico Sukno (UPF)

Member: Dr. Peter Seevinck (Utrecht University MRIGuidance)

Good luck, Sai! Disc4All Consortium

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At the end of September, Prof. Jérôme Noailly had the great pleasure to present the experience and outcomes of Disc4All EU Project, in a talk about International Collaborations, at the Career Development Session "Establishing International Research Collaborations - Building Connections", of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) 2024 Annual Meeting, in Toronto, Canada.

During the last four years, 15 PhD Candidates from 10 different nationalities have spread over 17 institutions and companies of eight different countries, to focus on translational intervertebral disc research and transversal training.

Thanks to the joint scientific work developed in these entities, including: Universitat Pompeu Fabra; University of Oulu; 3D-Shaper Medical; University of Bern; Protavio Ltd; Sheffield Hallam University; The University of Sheffield; University of Liège; KU Leuven; King's College London; Hospital del Mar Research Institute; Barcelona Supercomputing Center; InSilicoTrials; Agència de Qualitat i Avaluació Sanitàries de Catalunya (AQuAS); Rochester Institute of Technology; The University of Hong Kong; Tampere University,

along with a strong international mobility of our researchers, we have achieved great things:

- Building tools for phenotype-based intervertebral disc modelling: Terence McSweeney, Narasimharao Kowlagi, Sai Natarajan, Estefano Muñoz-Moya

- Building hybrid experimental-computational approaches, for integrative biology-based modelling of intervertebral disc cell regulation: Paola Bermudez Lekerika, Andrea Nüesch, Katherine Crump, Exarchos Kanelis, sofia tseranidou, Ahmad Alminnawi

- Building tools for multiscale integration of intervertebral disc biology, omics and disease phenotypes: Roger Compte Boixader, Francesco Gualdi, sofia tseranidou, Estefano Muñoz-Moya, Ahmad Alminnawi, Dimitrios Lialios

- Buiding computational platform for data and hashtag#modelling and simulation tool integrations, in intervertebral disc research: Maria Paola Ferri, Francis Chemorion

- Exploiting phenotypes, hybrid data and multiscale modelling tools for radiology - and biology - based stratification of intervertebral disc degeneration in low back pain: Narasimharao Kowlagi, Estefano Muñoz-Moya

More information about scientific production here: https://lnkd.in/di_68n9j

Model repository: https://spineview.upf.edu/

More to come about the platform!

We hope that our experience can be inspiring for future research; many thanks to Nilsson Holguin & Sabashini Ramchand for the invitation to share at the ASBMR Meeting!

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