The Netherlands eScience Center has awarded funding to four innovative research proposals related to the Covid-19 pandemic. The selected projects will run between 3 and 12 months and receive in-kind research engineering support. With these projects, the eScience Center will use its expertise in research software development to help address the current pandemic.
The projects span several domains and focus on monitoring and analysing public sentiment to government measures and announcements, the relation between COVID-19 and heart disease, the development of a tailored model to inform public health interventions for infection diseases in the Netherlands, and the refinement of a platform to enable the development and deployment of machine learning algorithms for the automated scoring of CT scans to detect and assess the severity of COVID-19.
Projects
- Real Time National Policy Adjustment and Evaluation on the Basis of a Computational Model for COVID-19 (Retina COVID19) Principal Investigator: Prof. Martin Bootsma (UMC Utrecht)
- FAIR Data for CAPACITY Principal Investigator: Andre Dekker (Maastricht University)
- COVID-19 Grand Challenge Principal Investigator: Dr James Meakin (Radboud UMC)
- Dutch Public Reaction on Governmental COVID-19 Measures and Announcements (PuReGoMe) Principal investigator: Shihan Wang (Utrecht University)
More information
The project summaries are available at the eScience Center website. The projects will kick-off as soon as possible. To stay informed on the latest results, please visit the eScience Center projects page.
