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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 Physiome Project is a “grass roots” effort to provide a technological, scientific and organisational framework to facilitate the understanding of the integrative function of cells, organs and organisms that is being undertaken via loosely coupled actions of a number of individual laboratories worldwide.
Although described as a project, it is really a vision – a collection of individual projects that, it is hoped, will eventually fuse into a complete picture. The aim is ultimately to create an exhaustive multiscale in silico model of the human physiology.
A group of European scientists including members of CCGV developed, in 2005, a preliminary consensus around a related concept: that of Virtual Physiological Human (VPH). While VPH is strongly inspired by the vision of a unified physiome, it has a greater emphasis on the medium-term clinical and industrial impact, and a strong European identity.
STEP was designed to provide coherence to European VPH-related activities by creating an integrated framework, the EuroPhysiome, which, while remaining true to the overall Physiome concept, tried to accelerate the progress of the European teams by avoiding redundancy, enhancing compatibility, identifying deliverables and time scales, etc.
By forming the individual actions into a collective European response, it also enabled issues such as common objectives, overall effectiveness and impact, dissemination, availability of resources and long-term sustainability to be addressed, for the first time, at a European level.
STEP recognised that tackling the whole physiome was too ambitious for a relatively small Coordination Action and, therefore, excluded consideration of the brain and perceptual/cognitive aspects and focused on those sub-domains in which physics-based modelling is predominant, taking particular advantage of the excellence of established European work in these areas.
Subject to this constraint, and with the assistance of the coordinators of the IUPS Physiome Project, STEP gathered the existing European projects that were working under the Physiome umbrella into the consortium. STEP had an inclusive philosophy and was always happy to include new projects, or existing projects somehow overlooked, into its activities.
These consisted of two conferences and several focused discussions, for which Internet-based media were widely used. STEP had an Advisory Board containing, amongst others, eminent figures from the Physiome Project and representatives of industrial organisations and professional societies and an Expert Panel with over a hundred eminent scientists to ensure that all shades of opinion are aired within the debates.
The outcome was a Roadmap reflecting a coherent vision for the future EuroPhysiome, published in March 2007 and available at www.europhysiome.org/roadmap
