Committees

Programme Committee (by alphabetic order) Martin Hofmann-Apitius (chair) Fraunhofer SCAI, St. Augustin, Germany Howard Bilofsky - University of Pennsylvania, USA Ignacio Blanquer - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain Vincent Breton - CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France Ian Foster - University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, United States Alejandro Frangi - UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain Tamas Hauer - Geneva, Swizzerland Vicente Hernandez Garcia - Valencia, Spain Samuel Keuchkerian - HealthGrid, France Mary Kratz - University of Michigan Medical School, Michigan, USA Yannick Legré - Maat-G, Spain David Manset - Maat G knowledge, Madrid, Spain Fernando Martin-Sanchez - IMIA, Spain Richard McClatchey - Bristol, UK Henning Müller - University and University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Swizerland Otto Rienhoff - Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Ulrich Sax - Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Sebastian C. Semler - TMF, Berlin, Germany Tony Solomonides - UWE, Bristol/Healthgrid, Bristol, UK

Scientific Review Committee (by alphabetic order) Tony Solomonides (chair) UWE, Bristol/Healthgrid, Bristol, UK Antonio Arbona - Grid Systems, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Robert Beck - Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, USA Johannes Bernarding - Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germay Howard Bilofsky - University of Pennsylvania, USA Ignacio Blanquer - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain Vincent Breton - CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France Joan Dzenowagis - CDC/WHO, Geneva, Swizzerland Hadas Lewy - Maccabi Institute for Health Services Research, Israel Alejandro Frangi - UPF (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Barcelona, Spain Jörg Freund - Siemens AG, Erlangen, Germany Jochen Hampe - Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany Tamas Hauer - Geneva, Swizzerland Vicente Hernandez Garcia - Valencia, Spain Martin Hofmann-Apitius - Fraunhofer SCAI, St. Augustin, Germany Rod Hose - Sheffield, UK Tobias Knoch - DKFZ, Heidelberg/Rotterdam, Germany/Netherlands Mary Kratz - University of Michigan Medical School, Michigan, USA Dagmar Krefting - Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Institute of Medical Informatics, Berlin, Germany Yannick Legré - Maat-G, Spain Ulf Leser - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany Guy Lonsdale - NEC Laboratories Europe, St. Augustin, Germany David Manset - Maat G knowledge, Madrid, Spain Fernando Martin-Sanchez - IMIA, Spain Richard McClatchey - Bristol, UK Luciano Milanesi - CNR-ITB, Italy Henning Müller - University and University Hospitals of Geneva, Geneva, Swizzerland Andreas Reuter - European Media Laboratory (EML) Gesellschaft mbH, Heidelberg, Germany Peter Rice - EBI - European Bioinformatics Institute, USA Ulrich Sax - Universität Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany Sebastian C. Semler - TMF, Berlin, Germany Jonathan Silverstein - Michigan, USA Anette Weisbecker - Fraunhofer, Stuttgart, Germany Max Wilkinson - NCRI, London, UK

Local Organisers

Sebastian C. Semler Scientific CEO	Mathias Freudigmann Coordination and Sponsor Contacts	Josefine Wagner Organisation Support
Verena Dorst Organisation Support	Martin Hofmann-Apitius	Yannick Legré President of HealthGrid Association

Contact

TMF Office
Neustädtische Kirchstraße 6
D-10117 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 31011954

TMF Web Site

TMF is an umbrella organization for medical research communities in Germany. Most of TMF?s members are multicentre or virtual institutions, each of them bringing together experts from all over Germany who seek for support in solving technical, organizational an legal issues which are typical for networked medical research. Thus, TMF produces expert opinions, studies, concepts, requirements specifications, services and tools regarding

• legal and ethical frameworks for networked medical research
• development of specific IT infrastructure needed for networked medical research
• quality management activities for investigator initiated trials
• intermeshing of medical research and medical care

TMF also regularly invites expert groups to meet in order to develop ideas and concepts to further improve networked medical research in Germany.

One of these groups is the Grid Forum, a national cooperation forum for Grid technology in biomedical research. The German Grid projects in the fields of medicine, medical research and life sciences collaborate in the TMF Grid Forum. Together, the projects in this forum serve to enhance national cooperation with D-Grid as well as international cooperation with HealthGrid at European level and caBIG in the US.

The Grid Forum was established in January 2008 as part of a joint workshop involving TMF and the biomedical Grid projects (MediGrid, Services@MediGrid, MedInfoGrid) together with representatives from caBIG (US) and D-Grid.

Please visit www.medigrid.de and www.tmf-ev.de/EnglishSite/WorkingGroups/Gridforum.aspx to learn more on TMF?s involvement in Grid technology.