The Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas – Institute of Computer Science achieved again great distinctions at the Healthcare Business Awards 2024
The Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas – Institute of Computer Science achieved again great distinctions at the Healthcare Business Awards 2024, the institution that highlights and awards best practices and innovative actions across the spectrum of Healthcare. For its overall performance, the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas – Institute of Computer Science received the “Top Research Center” prize.
In addition to the above grand prize, the Institute of Computer Science of FORTH won a total of six Awards, one of which for the ProCance-I project:
- The GOLD award and the PLATINUM award in the category “Research Centers” were received by the Laboratory of Computational Biomedicine (CBML) of FORTH-ICS, for the Medical Imaging Data Integration Infrastructures for the Development of Artificial Intelligence Models in Cancer. Through the ProCAncer I project, FORTH has already created an infrastructure that integrates data and imaging models supporting over 10,000 accurate prostate cancer care image collections. This infrastructure has already been integrated into EUCAIM’s pan-European digital infrastructure, which focuses on cancer in general and brings together 76 partners from across Europe.
The Healthcare Business Awards 2024 ceremony took place on Monday, November 25, at a central hotel in Athens, where more than 400 representatives of the pharmaceutical market, the academic and scientific community, health institutions, non-profit organizations and patient associations participated, and applauded the quality of the awarded candidacies of healthcare companies, universities, NGOs, companies and institutions that invest in innovative actions across the health spectrum.
The award ceremony was attended by the Director of the Institute of Computer Science of FORTH Prof. Dimitrios Plexousakis, the Head of the Center for eHealth Applications and Services (CeHA) Mr. Dimitrios Katehakis, as well as a number of executives of the Institute of Computer Science from Heraklion, Athens and Thessaloniki.
