Oslo, June 30 – July 2, 2001

POST-WORKSHOP INFORMATION

On behalf of the EU-US Task Force on Biotechnology Research, the organizing committee of this workshop invited leading scientists in the Neurosciences and Information Technology domains in the United States and Europe, to initiate a broad discussion of issues related to brain databasing. The meeting brought together 30 speakers and chairs, and 35 selected participants. The meeting took place at the Conference Center of the Norwegian Medical Association, Oslo, Norway, June 30 – July 2, 2001.

REPORT AND CONCLUSIONS

PARTICIPANTS

Supported by:

• EU-US Task Force on Biotechnology Research

• National Institute of Mental Health, NIH (www.nimh.nih.gov/neuroinformatics)

• European Commission, DG Research (europa.eu.int/comm/research)

• EU Thematic network on Neuroinformatics (www.neuroinf.org)

• Merck & Co, Inc. (www.merck.com, www.msd.no)

• University of Oslo (www.uio.no)

• The Research Council of Norway (www.forskningsradet.no/english)

Organizing committee:

• Jan G. Bjaalie (Oslo)

• Stephen H. Koslow (National Institute of Mental Health)

• Line Matthiessen (European Commission)

• Rolf Kotter (Düsseldorf)

• Jaap van Pelt (Amsterdam)

• Shankar Subramaniam (San Diego)

• Arthur W. Toga (Los Angeles)

Secretariat:

• Oslo: Kirsten Haga (k.s.haga@basalmed.uio.no) and
  Vigdis Ekeberg (vigdis.ekeberg@basalmed.uio.no)

• USA: Kathryn Bognovitz (kathyb@helix.nih.gov)

• EU: Stéphanie Caro (Stephanie.Caro@cec.eu.int)
  

 
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