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Named RESCOP, scientists from Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas are assessing the potential relationship between the influence of pandemic progression and the presence of material particles in the air. Prof. Domingo, director of TecnATox, is part of the Advisory Board.

Dr. Vikas Kumar, director of Systems Toxicology area of TecnATox, has been invited by ISGlobal to do a virtual seminar.

 

Big Data is a broad term for large data sets arriving from multiple sources with typological and structural complexities that presents integrational, analytical, and visualization challenges to extract meaningful information. In the human health risk assessment, the amount of data is exploding from HTS to biosensors, large scale biomonitoring to multigenerational individual and population-based studies. Scientists can use it to develop targeted treatments for old and emerging medical conditions. Governments are asset rich with massive data fields with the opportunity to design better policies and governance. However, Big data often touted as the new oil, can face the same fate as the oil curse? The scattered and massive “Big Data” captures the opportunities as well as challenges in accessing, integrating, managing, analyzing, and finally, finding meaningful information.  In this talk, I will present the current perspective and challenges of Big Data research in the transdisciplinary field of human health risk assessment with some examples of the current pandemic of COVID-19 as well.

Where? https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/814958517

Our research team of the "Neuropsychology Area and Emotions" Area of TecnATox has designed a questionnaire aimed at evaluating the impact of the confinement caused by COVID-19 at neuropsychological, psychological and emotional level, considering the proximity to the chemical and petrochemical complex of Tarragona (study approved by the Ethical Committee CEim-IISPV, num. 084/2020).