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Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Manuel Pastor

Principal Investigator

Scientific responsible for Multivariate Infometric Analysis Srl in Perugia (Italy), developing scientific software for the pharmaceutical industry (e.g., GOLPE, ALMOND, Greater, SHOP, Pentacle). Since 2000, associate professor at the UPF and head of the PharmacoInformatics group (PhI) of the GRIB. His current research is focused on computational toxicology and the development of predictive modelling software. Participant in a large number of EU-funded initiatives such as FP7 OpenPHACTS, H2020 EU-ToxRisk Project, H2030 RISKHUNT3R and IMI projects iPIE, eTOX and eTRANSAFE. Author of more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters.

Angela Leis

Psychologist with a Ph.D. in Biomedicine and a Master in Health and Quality of Life (Psy.M.). Postdoctoral researcher at the Hospital del Mar Research Institute. Associate Professor and coordinator of the Evidence-Based Medicine subject at the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Her research is focused on different topics, such as the study of mental disorders, suicide, and cancer in Electronic Health Records (EHR) and in Social Media through Big Data Analytics, collaborating in several European projects such as HONEUR, EHDEN, and DARWIN EU.

Juan Manuel Ramírez-Anguita

Senior data scientist in the Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics of the Hospital del Mar Research Institute and the Department of Medicine and Life Sciences at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Ph.D. in Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. His research is centered on the integrative biomedicine field and the implementation of several clinical and drug data platforms. His current research is focused on the RWD & RWE fields, involved in several international initiatives and projects on observational research in healthcare, such as HONEUR, EHDEN and DARWIN, as an expert in vocabularies and standards, and in the implementation of OMOP CDM.

Ferran Sanz

Professor of Biostatistics and Biomedical Informatics at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF, Barcelona) and coordinator of the joint Research Programme on Biomedical Informatics of the UPF. He is also affiliated to the Hospital del Mar Research Institute (IMIM). His research lines are dedicated to the application of information technologies and computational methods in biomedical research, with a particular focus on integrative biomedical informatics, computational toxicology and pharmaceutical R&D. Author of 200+ peer-reviewed publications, coordinator of 10 EU-funded initiatives and a STOA report for the European Parliament, and participant in many other international projects. Co-author of the DisGeNET knowledge base on disease genomics (www.disgenet.org, 50000+ users/year, 4000+ citations) and founder of MedBioInformatics Solutions SL (https://www.medbioinformatics.com/). Chair of the Board of the ELIXIR international bioinformatics infrastructure. He has been president of the European Federation for Medicinal Chemistry (EFMC) and vice-rector for scientific policies of the UPF. He has also been visiting professor at the Federico II (Naples), Düsseldorf and Vienna universities, and served as evaluator of scientific projects for the European Commission and other organisations.

The PERMANENS project is supported by Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) and by the European Union NextGenerationEU, Mecanismo para la Recuperación y la Resiliencia (AC22/00006; AC22/00045), the Swedish Innovation Agency (no. 2022-00549), the Research Council of Norway (project no. 342386) and the Health Research Board Ireland (ERAPERMED2022) under the frame of ERA PerMed.