⚖️ Understanding the legal and ethical foundations of HEREDITARY! Elisabetta Biasin, legal researcher at KU Leuven and leader of WP7, explains how the project addresses topics such as privacy and data protection, data governance, AI regulation, and data security. 🎥👇

🎬 Exploring citizen engagement in HEREDITARY! In this episode, Chiara Lovati and Giuseppe Pellegrini from Observa Science and Society share their work in Work Package 6 (WP6) on Citizen Engagement and Citizen Science. 🎥👇

#DeCodingHEREDITARY 📚🛠️ Check out Deliverable 5.1: Visualization components for sequences, networks, text, and high- dimensional data. 🔬 It highlights the use of interactive data visualization and visual analytics to make sense of large, complex datasets.  📥 https://zenodo.org/records/14628086

🎬 Continuing our HEREDITARY interview series! In this episode, Tobias Schreck, WP5 leader and Professor at @tugraz.bsky.social, explains how Work Package 5 develop interactive visualizations to explore the large and complex multimodal datasets in HEREDITARY. 🎥👇

🎬 Work Package 4: Multimodal Analytics and Learning Platform. Henning Müller and Manfredo Atzori from HES-SO Valais explain how WP4 develops a platform to integrate heterogeneous and multimodal data, to support advanced analytics and decision-making.  🎥👇

🚀 Two cities. One week. From genomic data to brain health innovation. HEREDITARY made its mark at two major EU health events: X #RIES2025 Forum in Galicia, Spain, and the 5th edition of the #BIDays in Brussels, Belgium. 🔍 Read the full story: https://acortar.link/NjMQUc

✨ Big week ahead for the HEREDITARY project! 🧬 #RIES2025 in La Toja, Galicia on October 15-16 with Abeer Fadda (EGA) and an HEREDITARY stand in the exhibition area. 🧠 #BIDays2025 in Brussels, where HEREDITARY will host a World Café. 🔍 https://acortar.link/zlqN2H

🎬 Meet Daniele Dell’Aglio, WP3 leader at Aalborg University, who explains how HEREDITARY uses semantic data integration to connect hospitals and researchers across Europe. 🔒Securely and without exposing sensitive data. ▶️ Watch the full interview:

#DeCodingHEREDITARY 📚🛠️ Check out Deliverable 4.9: Evidence-based KBC. Initial results. 🔬 First year results of Task 4.6, developing methods for biomedical information extraction and Knowledge Graph construction. 📥 Download it here: https://zenodo.org/records/15848315

🎬 Work Package 2: Clinical Use Cases and Federated Networking Infrastructure. Today we’re launching a new series of interviews, starting with Umberto Manera, WP2 leader and neurologist at Università degli Studi di Torino. 🎯WP 2 Use Cases. ▶️ Watch the full interview 👇

🧠🧬 From Galicia to Brussels: HEREDITARY drives European dialogue on health and brain innovation. The HEREDITARY Project will be present at two major events on 15-16 October 2025: the RIES Forum in Galicia and the Brain Innovation Days in Brussels. 🔍 https://acortar.link/zlqN2H

Can AI models trained on personal data ever be anonymous? 🤔  At our 3rd Legal Workshop, KU Leuven & HEREDITARY partners discussed GDPR, the new AI Act, and data protection challenges.  🔍 https://hereditary-project.eu/hereditary-holds-3rd-legal-workshop-on-gdpr-and-data-protection-on-ai-models/

🚀 HEREDITARY shines at CLEF 2025! At this year’s event, held in Madrid (9–12 September 2025), our team delivered outstanding results in the GutBrainIE Challenge as part of the BioASQ Lab. 🏆 The team took home some GutBrainIE task awards. 🔗 https://acortar.link/LTZvz8

#HEREDITARYOpenScience 📄 Histopathobiome – integrating histopathology and microbiome data via multimodal deep learning. 👤 Agata Polejowska, Annemarie Boleij, Francesco Ciompi, from @radboudumc.bsky.social#HEREDITARYOpenScience 📅 October 2024. Journal of Machine Learning Research. 🔍 https://zenodo.org/records/14039967

🚀 The HEREDITARY project will participate on #RIES2025, organised by the Cluster Saúde de Galicia, taking place on 15–16 October in La Toja, (Spain). Abeer Fadda, from @crg.eu#RIES2025, will present insights from the HEREDITARY project in a round table on genomics. 🔗 https://forumries.com/programa/

At CNAG, we are proud to be partners in @hereditaryeu.bsky.social, advancing disease detection and treatment through the integration of clinical and genomic data 🆕 We have launched the HERO ontology & federated framework for ALS and MS, with contributions from Manuel Rueda

HEREDITARY successfully completes its first Official Review! 🎉 On August 28, the HEREDITARY project held its 1st Official Review Meeting, receiving very positive feedback. 🔍https://hereditary-project.eu/hereditary-had-its-first-official-review-delivering-positive-results-across-all-work-packages/

#DeCodingHEREDITARY 📚🛠️ Check out Deliverable 3.4: Medical terminology. 🔬 This report outlines a methodology combining conceptual and linguistic approaches to improve medical terminology, enhancing understanding, communication, and term accuracy. 📥 https://zenodo.org/records/14628022

#DeCodingHEREDITARY 🧠📊 Check out Deliverable 3.1: Ontology and federated execution methods. 🔬 This deliverable presents the HERO ontology and a federated execution framework for integrating clinical and genomic data related to ALS and MS. 📥 https://zenodo.org/records/14627940

#HEREDITARYOpenScience 📄 An extensible and unifying approach to retrospective clinical data modeling: the BrainTeaser Ontology. 👤 Authors from @unipd.bsky.social#HEREDITARYOpenScience Universidade de Lisboa & IRCCS Foundation. 📅 August 2024 at Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 🔍 https://zenodo.org/records/14049328

#DeCodingHEREDITARY 🔒🧬 Check out Deliverable 2.21: @unipd.bsky.social clinical studies documentation. 🔬 This deliverable presents the ethical, legal and data protection, using pseudonymised retrospective data from over 6,000 patients. 📥 Download it here: https://zenodo.org/records/15848262

#HEREDITARYOpenScience 📄 Exploring Publicly Accessible Optical Coherence Tomography Datasets A Comprehensive Overview. 👤 Authors from HES-SO Valais Wallis, Stadspital Zürich, @unipd.bsky.social and the Miller School of Medicine, UMiami. 📅 08/24 at Diagnostic. 🔍 https://zenodo.org/records/15648713

#DeCodingHEREDITARY 🔒🧬 Check out Deliverable 2.20: RUMC clinical studies documentation. 🔬 This deliverable outlines the regulatory, ethical, and legal approvals for @radboudumc.bsky.social clinical studies. It focuses on data protection and FAIR principles. 📥 https://zenodo.org/records/15848061

#HEREDITARYOpenScience 📄 BIDSAlign: a library for automatic merging and preprocessing of multiple EEG repositories. 👤 Andrea Zanola, Federico Del Pup, Camillo Porcaro, and Manfredo Atzori, from @unipd.bsky.social#HEREDITARYOpenScience 📅 August 2024 at Neural Engineering. 📥 https://zenodo.org/records/14039134

#DeCodingHEREDITARY 🤖🔒 Check out Deliverable 2.11: Federated infrastructure design. 🔬 This deliverable outlines the design and testing of a secure, flexible, deployable and reproducible Federated Learning infrastructure, linked to Milestone 6. 📥 https://zenodo.org/records/15847728

🧠 Today on #WorldBrainDay 2025, we’re joining the global call to make brain health a priority at every age. Taking this opportunity, HEREDITARY announces the next World Café at the Brain Innovation Days this October. 🔍 https://hereditary-project.eu/world-brain-day-2025-brain-health-for-all-ages/

#HEREDITARYOpenScience 📄 A Novel Approach to Semic Analysis: Extraction of Atoms of Meaning to Study Polysemy and Polyreferentiality. 👤 Vanessa Bonato, Giorgio María Di Nunzio, Federica Vezzani,(@unipd.bsky.social). 📅 March 2024 at @mdpiopenaccess.bsky.social#HEREDITARYOpenScience 🔍 https://zenodo.org/records/1564815

📄💡 HEREDITARY is participating at #SIGIR2025, the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, currently taking place in Padua, Italy (July 13-17, 2025).  Looking forward to exchanging ideas and showcasing our progress!

#DeCodingHEREDITARY  🧠 👁 Check out Deliverable 2.8: Parkinson's disease in the eye, first approach.  🔬 This study investigates using retinal images to detect Parkinson’s, certifying that age proves to be a major confounding factor. 📥 https://zenodo.org/records/15847669

HEREDITARY is featured in the latest episode of the Brain Talks podcast! We dive into how trustworthy AI can transform brain research, with insights from Elisabetta Biasin (@citip.bsky.social) and Helena Ledmyr (@incforg.bsky.social) 🎧 https://www.braininnovationdays.eu/brain-talks-podcast/

📹New video! Discover the @hereditaryeu.bsky.social‬ project like never before 🎯We aim to transform disease detection, treatment response, through data-driven innovation ➡️At CNAG, we'll create a framework to enable semantic interoperability of clinical data 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD_D...

#HEREDITARYOpenScience  📄 MetaTron: advancing biomedical annotation empowering relation annotation and collaboration. 👤 Stefano Marchesin, Gianmaria Silvello and Ornella Irrera, all from @unipd.bsky.social#HEREDITARYOpenScience  📅 March 2024 at BMC Bioinformatics.    🔍 https://zenodo.org/records/14039792

#WorldMicrobiomeDay 🦠🌍 Every year on June 27, the APC Microbiome Ireland and the MicrobiomeSupport Association shine a light on the microbiomes, communities of bacteria, fungi, viruses and other microbes that live in and around us. Check out HEREDITARY contribution 🎥 👇

#DeCodingHEREDITARY 🔒🧬 Check out Deliverable 2.19: UNITO clinical studies documentation. 🔬 This deliverable provides comprehensive documentation on the regulatory, ethical, and legal approvals required for the clinical studies conducted by UNITO. 📥 https://zenodo.org/records/14034480

🚨 Exciting News! The HEREDITARY project animated overview video is now live on our YouTube channel! 🎥 Discover how the EU-funded HEREDITARY project is changing the way we approach healthcare 🧠🔬 Watch it here 👇 

#WorldALSDay Tomorrow, June 21, marks World ALS Awareness Day. 🔬 HEREDITARY advances ALS research through secure data sharing and innovation. 🤝 On June 16, #EUpALS held its Annual General Meeting at #ENCALS2025 in Turin, featuring #HEREDITARY & @real4reg.bsky.social#WorldALSDay#EUpALS🔍 https://acortar.link/lK33Bm

#HEREDITARYOpenScience 📄 Spirochetosis detection in colon histopathology images via fine-tuning and boosting techniques using foundation models. 👤 Five researchers from the @radboudumc.bsky.social team. 📅 Medical Imaging with Deep Learning 2024. 🔍 https://zenodo.org/records/14039920

🔔🧠 Join the @LETHE Project Final Event! HEREDITARY stands alongside the #LETHEProject, as they conclude 5 years of groundbreaking research into dementia risk reduction. 📅 24 June, 2025 🕤 09:30 – 11:00 CEST 📍 Techhub K67, Düsseldorf & ONLINE 🔍 https://acortar.link/RqSEa5

🚀 From March to June 2025, HEREDITARY launched a 4 month Hackathon led by HES-SO as part of WP4, bringing together six PhD students from @unipd.bsky.social to explore how machine learning can tackle real-world challenges in genomics and transcriptomics. 🔍 https://acortar.link/TvRCez

#DataKnowledge 🔬🧬 HEREDITARY 1st workshop on privacy-preserving synthetic data generation. Daniele Dell'Aglio and Frederik Trudslev (@aau.dk#DataKnowledge hosted a session about #SyntheticData and #DataPrivacy. 🔍 https://hereditary-project.eu/synthetic-data-unlocking-innovation-without-compromising-privacy/

🤝 On May 28th, the HEREDITARY consortium held its online Plenary Meeting to review 18 months of progress! ✅ WP updates 🧠 Live demos 📊 Use Case highlights The meeting served as a rehearsal for the upcoming first official review in late August. 🔍 https://acortar.link/s4pnTE

🌞 Save the Date! Summer School on Computational Tools for Prediction: From Idea to Clinic, driven by the #WisdomProject. 📅 September 8–11, 2025 📍 Lake Maggiore, Italy 💶 Cost: 350 EUR 📣 Open to all junior scientists! More info: https://wisdomhorizon.eu/

📢 The HEREDITARY infographic for Use Case 1 on Neurodegenerative Diseases Phenotyping & Prognosis Evaluation is now live! 🎯 Developed under WP2, Use Cases will demonstrate the broad applicability and effectiveness of the HEREDITARY framework. 🔍 https://acortar.link/CIEWFW

🚀 Excited to share highlights from our recent webinar on bridging the #HEREDITARY project through federated learning! We explored how HEREDITARY's privacy-preserving infrastructure and multimodal semantic integration are enhancing the AI models developed in #BRAINTEASER.

#HEREDITARYOpenScience 📄 Efficient and Reliable Estimation of Knowledge Graph Accuracy 👤 Stefano Marchesin and Gianmaria Silvello, both from @unipd.bsky.social#HEREDITARYOpenScience📅 1 May 2024 on Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 👉 https://zenodo.org/records/14039745

#DeCodingHEREDITARY 🧪 Check out Deliverable 2.16: Design of neurodegenerative use cases. 🔬 HEREDITARY aims to improve understanding and classification of neurodegenerative diseases by integrating multimodal data to ultimately improve early detection.  📥 https://zenodo.org/records/14034445

📢 HEREDITARY joins EU webinar on Federated Learning! 📌 Federated Learning for Neurodegenerative Disease Research: A New Path to Risk Reduction and Better Care 🤝 LETHE & BRAINTEASER 📅 Date: Friday, 16 May 🕥 Time: 10:30 – 11:30 CEST (ONLINE) 🔗 Full details on our website: https://acortar.link/TTWEJA

🤝 Exciting news! HEREDITARY joins forces with the EU-funded project @datagems_eosc to revolutionize health data discovery, integration and exploration. 🔍 https://hereditary-project.eu/strategic-synergies-to-advance-health-data-innovation-collaboration-agreement-with-datagems/

#HEREDITARYOpenScience 📄 SelfEEG: A Python library for Self-Supervised Learning in Electroencephalography. 👤 Del Pup, F., Zanola, A., Tshimanga, L. F., Mazzon, P. E., & Atzori, M., from @unipd.bsky.social  📅 17 MAR 2024 on The Journal of Open Source Software. 👉 https://zenodo.org/records/14039642

#DeCodingHEREDITARY 🌐🧠 Check out Deliverable 2.14: Computing infrastructures. 🔬 Outlines progress in setting up computing and storage infrastructures to support federated learning, securing communication between centres while preserving privacy. 📥 https://zenodo.org/records/14034331