🚀🤝 The 5th #HEREDITARY Plenary Meeting is currently taking place on 5th and 6th February 2026 at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, in Lisbon, Portugal. 🎯 Consortium partners discussed the project status, updates on Work Packages progress, and next steps. 📸 Catch a glimpse from the event!

💻 HEREDITARY Hackathon | Federated Learning Workshop 6.   Yesterday, the HEREDITARY project consortium members joined the Federated Learning Workshop 6, organized by SURF, as part of the Federated Learning and Infrastructure Working Group.   📸 Here are some snapshots!

🎥 #DeCodingHEREDITARY: Discover the project through its WP Leaders. #HEREDITARY has released a series of 10 video interviews with project partners, providing an inside look at Work Packages, their challenges, and the activities they carry out.   🔍 https://acortar.link/W3e4od

#HEREDITARYconnects 🚀 Introducing the Harnessing Health Data Cluster!   Discover our collaboration with EU projects focused on multimodal health data integration, neurodegenerative disorders, and the gut-brain axis, through the new website space.   🌐 https://hereditary-project.eu/liasons/

🚀 DETECH 2026 has its challenge open! 📊 Ttraining data is now available on GitHub, for everyone interested in automatic term extraction, definition generation, biomedical NLP, and medical terminology. 🔍 https://hereditary-project.eu/detech-2026-pushing-the-boundaries-of-medical-terminology/

📊🤖 European Health Data Space (EHDS) and AI Act in the European context. In this video, Lotte Cools, shares key insights on the #EHDS and the #AIAct, and how these European frameworks are shaping health research and the use of AI on HEREDITARY. 🎥👇

#HEREDITARYOpenScience The paper “A Cost-Effective Framework to Evaluate LLM-Generated Relevance Judgements” has been published in the Proceedings of the 34th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2025). 🔍 https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3746252.3761200

#HEREDITARYOpenScience The paper, “Provenance-Driven Nanopublications: Representing Source Lineage and Trust Networks for Multi-Source Assertions” has been published in the International Journal of Digital Libraries (IJDL). 🔍 Take a look: https://zenodo.org/records/18256289

🚀✨ We’ve entered Month 24, marking the halfway point of our four-year journey.   #HEREDITARY is demonstrating strong scientific and technical progress, having successfully passed its first periodic review (at M18) and submitted 14 deliverables in December.   🔍 https://acortar.link/k9vXPN

🎄 As we approach the end of the year, we would like to thank all our partners and everyone involved in HEREDITARY for their dedication, collaboration and shared commitment to advancing personalized healthcare. Wishing you Happy Holidays! 🎁🌟

🎉 HEREDITARY XMAS Giveaway – Winners Announcement! 🎉   Thank you all for participating in our HEREDITARY Christmas Giveaway. 🧠   Now, the moment you’ve been waiting for…🏆   🥇 1st Prize Winner 👉 Matteo Lissandrini   🥈 2nd Prize Winner 👉 Lina Gómez   👏 Congrats!

📢 New HEREDITARY web section: Citizen Participation! This space brings together all resources related to citizen science and public engagement in the HEREDITARY project, building stronger connections between scientific research and civil society 🧠🖥️ 🔍 https://acortar.link/lB3ubk

⏰ HEREDITARY #XMAS Giveaway is still open! Have you already joined our Christmas holiday giveaway? There’s still time to win exclusive HEREDITARY project materials, perfect for your lab, desk, or next conference. Good luck, and happy holidays! ❄️🎁

📊🔍 How can visualization help make sense of complex biomedical data? In this video, Tobias Schreck (@tugraz.bsky.social) explains the key visualization techniques developed in HEREDITARY, covering imaging data, time-dependent measurements, and network data. 🎥👇

🧬 HEREDITARY #XMAS Giveaway! ✨ To thank you all for your support throughout the year, the HEREDITARY project is celebrating the holiday season with a special giveaway of exclusive project materials! Good luck to all, and happy holidays! ❄️🎁

🔬 The Science Behind Self-Supervised Learning. In this video, Manfredo Atzori, scientific coordinator of the HEREDITARY project, explains how Self-Supervised Learning enables models to learn from large amounts of raw data and detect similarities. 🎥 https://youtu.be/rVuiOvsEdtY

🌍 Connecting science, technology & citizen participation across Europe! HEREDITARY is launching the GutBrainIE Task #6 of the BioASQ as part of #CLEF2026, to be held from SEP 21–24, 2026, at @uni-jena.de#CLEF2026, 🔍 https://hereditary-project.eu/hereditary-joins-clef-2026-with-a-new-gutbrainie-challenge/

⚙️ The core engine behind HEREDITARY! In this episode, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Associate Professor at the @unipd.bsky.social and leader of Work Package 1, shared insights into the crucial role that WP1 plays in the overall coordination of the project. 🎥👇

⚙️ The core engine behind HEREDITARY! In this episode, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Associate Professor at the @unipd.bsky.social and leader of Work Package 1, shared insights into the crucial role that WP1 plays in the overall coordination of the project. 🎥👇

💡 Yesterday, the HEREDITARY project held a new Health Social Lab event in Padua, Italy, making it the second to happen in the region. Experts and patients discussed key challenges in technology, communication, and ethics in healthcare. 🔍 https://zenodo.org/records/14034534

#DeCodingHEREDITARY 📚🛠️ Deliverable 5.3: Visualization components for spatial, image, and simulation data. 🔬 Highlights the interactive tools forming the basis for upcoming applications that will support advanced data exploration and user guidance. 📥

⚖️ 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