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To apply for a research degree, please make sure you fulfill the entry requirements and then complete the online research degree application form and upload your supporting documents.
You should have a good honours degree (2:1 or above) or masters degree or equivalent in the relevant subject area.
International applicants should be aware of our research degree English language requirements
The musculoskeletal apparatus is probably the organ system in which the need for the integrative approach advocated by the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) initiative is most pronounced. Neuromotor control involves the entire body, whereas the processes involved in muscle twitching, bones and muscle adaptation, musculoskeletal aging, and in most musculoskeletal diseases take place at the molecular level.
It is becoming increasingly evident that the way out is the development of new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) that makes personalised, predictive and integrative musculoskeletal medicine possible. Worldwide, the two largest research projects focused on this are the Osteoporotic Virtual Physiological Human (VPHOP) integrated project funded by the European Commission, and the Center for Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures (SIMBIOS) based at Stanford University and funded by the USA National Institute of Health. Both projects are targeting the same strategic objective, but each project breaks it into research goals that are overlapping in a few cases and complementary in all the others.
This unique condition creates an extremely interesting opportunity for international collaboration, which drastically increases the international impact of the work being done by the VPHOP project, and produces the conditions for global cooperation on this grand challenge of biomedical research. Via the NMS Physiome project, the SIMBIOS and VPHOP consortia intend to establish a more organic cooperation, structured around three objectives: integrate the projects’ communities, integrate the projects’ tools, and work collaboratively on grand challenges.
The role of CCGV in NMS Physiome is to provide specific input during the integration of the software systems, some of which were originally created within CCGV.
