Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

Collaborations with Major European Organizations

• Partner 1: Computational Biology Group, Department of Computer Science, Oxford University (United Kingdom).

• Our work with the computational biology group concerns the development of multi-scale models of the drugs and their effect on the electrical activity of the heart. The main goal is to assess the drug−induced effects on the electrocardiogram, using a computational model describing the physiology from ion channel to body surface potentials.

• Partner 2: BCAM (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics), Bilbao (Spain).

• We collaborate with L. Gerardo Giorda, research fellow at the BCAM on: the development of our new sopftware CEPS, the design and study of new domain decomposition methods suited to our cardiac electrophysiology models, the evaluation of some sensitivity analysis issues in cardiac electrophysiology.

• Partner 3: Department of Experimental Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam (Netherland).

• With the groups of Pr J. de Bakker and of Dr R. Coronel, we work on the arythmias related to degradations of the tissues (due to aging or cardiomyopathies), combined with diseases of the ionic channels, qsuch as the Brugada syndrome.