UNCAN.eu: Toward a European Federated Cancer Research Data Hub

Michael Boutros; Michael Baumann; Anna Bigas; Linda Chaabane; Julien Guérin; Jens K Habermann; Aurélien Jobard; Pier Giuseppe Pelicci; Oliver Stegle; Giovanni Tonon; Alfonso Valencia; Eva C Winkler; Patricia Blanc; Ruggero De Maria; Rene H Medema; Peter Nagy; Josep Tabernero; Eric Solary

doi:10.1158/2159-8290.CD-23-1111

UNCAN.eu: Toward a European Federated Cancer Research Data Hub

Cancer Discov. 2024 Jan 12;14(1):30-35. doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-23-1111.

Authors

Michael Boutros¹, Michael Baumann², Anna Bigas³, Linda Chaabane⁴, Julien Guérin⁵, Jens K Habermann⁶, Aurélien Jobard⁷, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci⁸, Oliver Stegle^{9

10}, Giovanni Tonon¹¹, Alfonso Valencia¹², Eva C Winkler¹³, Patricia Blanc¹⁴, Ruggero De Maria¹⁵, Rene H Medema¹⁶, Peter Nagy¹⁷, Josep Tabernero^{9

18}, Eric Solary¹⁹

Affiliations

¹ German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Division of Signaling and Functional Genomics and Heidelberg University, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Institute for Human Genetics, Heidelberg, Germany.
² DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany.
³ Centro de Investigación Biomedica en Red-Oncología (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
⁴ Euro-BioImaging ERIC, Med-Hub, National Research Council of Italy (CNR), Turin, Italy.
⁵ IT Department, Curie Hospital, Paris, France.
⁶ Interdisciplinary Center for Biobanking-Lübeck (ICB-L), University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany.
⁷ Institut National du Cancer (INCa), Boulogne Billancourt, France.
⁸ Department of Experimental Oncology, IEO European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, Milano, Italy.
⁹ DKFZ, Division of Computational Genomics and Systems Genetics, Heidelberg, Germany.
¹⁰ Genome Biology Unit, European Molecular Biology, Heidelberg, Germany.
¹¹ Center for Omics Sciences, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
¹² Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.
¹³ National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Heidelberg University, Section Translational Medical Ethics, Heidelberg, Germany.
¹⁴ Imagine for Margo, Paris, France.
¹⁵ Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy.
¹⁶ Oncode Institute and The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
¹⁷ National Institute of Oncology and the National Tumor Biology Laboratory, Budapest, Department of Anatomy and Histology, HUN-REN-UVMB Laboratory of Redox Biology Research Group, University of Veterinary Medicine, and Chemistry Institute, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
¹⁸ Vall d'Hebron Hospital Campus & Institute of Oncology (VHIO), Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁹ Université Paris-Saclay and INSERM, Gustave Roussy Cancer Center, Villejuif, France.

Abstract

To enable a collective effort that generates a new level of UNderstanding CANcer (UNCAN.eu) [Cancer Discov (2022) 12 (11): OF1], the European Union supports the creation of a sustainable platform that connects cancer research across Member States. A workshop hosted in Heidelberg gathered European cancer experts to identify ongoing initiatives that may contribute to building this platform and discuss the governance and long-term evolution of a European Federated Cancer Data Hub.

MeSH terms

European Union
Humans
Neoplasms*
Research