AEGLE's Partners

Exodus (coordinator)

Exodus, S.A.

EXODUS S.A. (brand name EXUS) is a software house with offices in Athens and London, with strong background in delivering complex systems and solutions in various countries over the world. Our purpose is to improve the business of those we serve, simplifying complexity to enable intelligent action. EXODUS’ main expertise exists with developing cutting edge products for the Banking Sector and Internet and Mobile Technologies.

Both products and bespoke solutions built by EXUS, serve demanding and critical business applications and domains, covering all types of diverse sectors. From consumer banking applications, smartphones-based payment and transaction systems, augmented-reality mobile applications, large-scale and complex portals, extranets, Electronic Data Interchanges to secure cloud services, EXUS covers a wide spread of activities by leveraging the expertise of its 130 people strong technology units that are led by expert project managers and senior consultants.

We have a strong portfolio of major customers in sectors such as Banking, Telecoms, Utilities, Business Consultancies, Media, Real Estate and Hospitality. Our solutions cover a very wide range of demanding Web and Mobile applications, including transaction heavy intranets and extranets, e-learn and e-payment, as well as customized applications pertaining to enterprise needs. In the past four years, we have expanded our scope to incorporate Mobile Applications in smart phones and tablets, covering the iOS, Android and Windows Mobile platforms.

Furthermore, the company operates its internal Innovation department which is responsible for a large number of research activities. Our Innovation Attractor manages a portfolio of initiatives that aim to pave the way for the introduction and take up of emerging technologies. Leveraging the results of strategic research activities allows us to harness untapped niches in our market sectors of interest. We excel in driving innovation in software engineering and data management to foster advances in key sectors such as: security, health, creativity and lifelong learning.

EXUS has been awarded with the EFQM “Recognized for Excellence” award and over the years EXUS has been included among the 20 best places to work in Greece (within the “Great Places to Work®” annual competition). EXUS is certified with ISO:9001 for quality assurance. Our project managers are certified according to the Project Management Institute as Project Management Professionals. Finally, EXUS is a Gold Microsoft and Oracle Partner for development and Integration works.

EXUS has extensive experience in software design and development and provides solutions and services in the areas of web based complex application, eHealth, eLearning, Business Process Management, Professional Services, BI, Debt Collection and Recovery, Financial services, mobile applications. EXUS develops applications following the latest trends in software development: using web services, SOAs, J2EE and adopts the relevant standards”

ICCS

Institute of Communication and Computer Systems

ICCS has a long track record in developing design- and run-time techniques for the optimization of embedded systems based on digital systems design of multicore/many-core and reconfigurable systems. More specifically, ICCS group has more than 12 years of experience on development middleware services, design space exploration for static and dynamic memory management, data access scheduling, data type refinement in terms of performance, power consumption, memory footprint and reliability design criteria. In the area of embedded systems design

KINGSTON

Kingston University Higher Education Corporation

Kingston University London is an innovative modern research led University which has four campuses and five faculties catering for over 23,000 students. The largest of these Faculties in terms of staff and student numbers is the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing (SEC) which isa recent amalgamation of three former Faculties. The SEC Faculty has eight schools:
Pharmacy and Chemistry, Computing Information Sciences, Mathematics, Life Science, Geology, Geography and Environment, Civil Engineering, Mechanical and Automotive Engineering and Aerospace and Aircraft Engineering. SEC is strategically focussed on inter-disciplinary research and researchers in SEC collaborate widely, within the Faculty, across Faculties as well as with a wide range of national and international partners, academic and industrial.

Kingston University has affiliation with a large teaching hospital (St George’s Hospital) and excellent strategic partnerships with healthcare providers across London and the UK which has enabled collaborative links with large databases. This complements the development within Kingston University of strategic links between the Medical Information and Network Technologies (MINT) Research Centre and the Interdisciplinary Hub for the Study of Health and Age related Conditions (IhSHA). MINT has received a number of prestigious grants totalling over £2 million and IhSHA receives support from the EU, leading charities and research councils, which has exceeded £1million in the last two years. The interdisciplinary partnerships across the Research Centres have resulted in successful research teams with complementary skills in areas of mobile healthcare and telemedicine.

The University invests heavily in research infrastructure in the sciences and computing and has recently completed construction of a major laboratory for interdisciplinary research between the biological, pharmaceutical and computer sciences. The facility has state of the art instrumentation for proteomic and genomic analyses, a tissue culture laboratory and computing suite which houses high spec computers for complex analytical work. A range of other laboratories that support life sciences and pharmaceutical research accommodate extensive modern suites for pathogen research, molecular microbiology/GM, natural products analysis, cell signalling, histology, immunology, and microscopy/image analysis. Major new equipment includes 400 and 600 MHz NMR Bruker spectrometers, mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS, ICP-AES, 3x LC-MS/MS, 2 x GC-MS) laser infrared microscope, laser Raman spectrophotometer, X-ray diffractometer, high-resolution microscopes (SEM,  TEM,  CLSM),  flow cytometers/FACS, BodPod, and Ion-Torrent sequencer for genomic analysis..

CERTH

Centre for Research and Technology Hellas

The Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) was founded in 2000 and is the largest research centre in Northern Greece with the mission to carry out basic and  applied  research  with  special  emphasis  on  exploiting  research  results  and developing new products and services with industrial, economic and social impact. In 2012,  CERTH  ranked  first  among  all  research  centres  in  Greece  regarding  theabsorbed  funding  from  the  FP7-ICT  Programme  during  the  period  2007-2011.  The Institute  of  Applied  Biosciences  (INAB)  at  CERTH,  which  resulted  from  the  merger  of  the  Institutes  of Agrobiotechnology  (INA)  and  Biomedical  and  Biomolecular  Research  (IBBR),  and  specifically  the  Division  of Biomedical and Biomolecular Research will participate in AEGLE.

INAB has experience in conducting research in the areas of biomedical informatics, molecular medicine, and the development and evaluation of eHealth / telemonitoring applications.

INAB research activities in Biomedicine, funded by competitive programs (from both the EU and the Greek state) and  industrial  support,  mainly  aim  at  (i)  the  identification  and  validation  of  novel  biomarkers  enabling  better classification  of  human  cancers  and  improved  diagnosis  and  prognosis  assessment;  and,  (ii)  the  development  of innovative preventive and therapeutic strategies based on a fundamental understanding of disease pathogenesis and evolution towards the implementation of personalized medicine approaches.

MAXELER

MAXELER Technologies

Maxeler provides complete platforms for High Performance Computing using dataflow supercomputing. By enabling applications to offload computation to dedicated Dataflow Engines (DFEs), Maxeler’s dataflow computers deliver 20-30x  improvement  in  performance/W  and  performance/space  with  respect to  conventional  systems  for  particular  applications.  Dataflow  Engines  are optimized for “Big data” applications, with pipelined hardware architectures optimized for applying repetitive computation to massive datasets with full in-memory processing. For example, a rack of Maxeler MPC-X nodes provides over 15TB of memory.

Maxeler provides complete application platforms, which consist of:

 Application: Maxeler teams consist of scientists and engineers who work on applications across a wide set of domains,  ranging  from  life  sciences  to  oil  exploration.  Maxeler  provides  complete  applications  as  well  as application  libraries  which  allow  domain  experts  to  easily  create  new  applications  which  exploit the performance of dataflow systems.

 Compilers and management software: MaxelerOS manages resources, scheduling and data movement within a heterogeneous  HPC  environment.  MaxCompiler  provides  a  Java-based  programming  infrastructure  for dataflow programming. 

 Hardware:  Maxeler  hardware  systems  integrate  dataflow  engines,  custom  1U  nodes  and  conventional  CPU nodes  with  networking  and  local  storage.  Balancing  hardware  resources  in  the  data  center  based  on application requirements removes bottlenecks and significantly improves cost of computing.

 Operating from its headquarters and main R&D facilities in London, Maxeler has a strong record of research and development  of  state-of-the-art  science  and  technology.  Through  its  university  program,  the  company  also  has research relationships with well over 100 universities around the world.

Uppsala University

UU

Uppsala  University  (UU)  is  one  of  the  largest  universities  in  Scandinavia  with  a  long-standing international  track  record  in  cancer,  in  particular  regarding translational  research  of hematological  malignancies.  The  Department  of  Immunology,  Genetics  and  Pathology  is  the largest department within the Medical Faculty with a focus on cancer and molecular diagnostics.

UU  has  lately  been  reinforced  by  two  novel  infrastructures,  U-CAN  (www.u-can.uu.,se), encompassing  systematic  and  longitudinal  sampling  of  tumors  including  hematological malignancies,  and  associated  clinico-biological  data,  and  Science  for  Life  Laboratory  Uppsala (www.scilifelab.uu.se), aiming to explore the molecular basis of complex disorders including cancer by applying new technologies such as next-generation sequencing.

UNISR

University Vita-Salute San Raffaele

The  Vita-Salute  San  Raffaele  University  (USR)  is the top-rated School of Medicine in Italy  and  it  provides  a  US  recognized  MD  degree  in  English  as well  as  international Ph.D.  programs  in  Molecular  Medicine.  USR  has  a  specific  mission  for  the  education and training of physician scientists with the vision of translational research based on the concept that only continuous research can provide a better medicine for the patients.

USR  is  located  in  a  Biomedical  Research  Campus  that  includes:  1)  the  affiliated  Hospital  San  Raffaele,  a  top-quality  private,  non-profit  hospital  (1300  beds)  covering  all  main  medical  and  surgical  specialties;  2)    The  San Raffaele  Scientific  Institute,  appointed  as  a  Center  of  Excellence  for  Research  and  Medical  Care  by  the  Italian Ministry  of  Health  that  yearly  provides  dedicated  funding  for  biomedical  research  with  the  aim  of  transferring basic research findings into new diagnostic and therapeutic tools. 

The  Campus  comprises  the  Departments  of  Biology  and  Technology  Research,  a  12.000  m2  building  (DIBIT-1) recently  expanded  by  an  additional  24.000  m2  of  brand  new facilities  (DIBIT-2)  and  providing  laboratory  space for  ~500  scientists  from  disciplines  as  diverse  as  neuroscience,  gene  therapy,  clinical  sciences,  genetics  and, related to the task of AEGLE, cancer with a tight interaction between basic and clinical research units. 

Time.Lex

TML

time.lex  is  a  boutique  law  firm  based  in  Brussels,  specialised  in  information  and  technology law in the broadest sense, including privacy protection, data and information management, e-business,  intellectual  property  and  telecommunications.  Its  activities  cover  all  legal  issues encountered  in  the  creation,  management  and  exploitation  of  information  and  technology,  in all of its diverse forms. While time.lex itself is still young, having been founded in July 2007 by prof.  Jos  Dumortier,  Geert  Somers  and  Hans  Graux,  the  team  behind  it  already  has  an established track record in its field of expertise. Collectively, the founders represent well over 35  years  of  experience  in  information  and  technology  law,  from  an  academic,  business  and  policy  perspective, spanning every aspect of this discipline.

The  time.lex  team  has  extensive  experience  in  most  aspects  of  information  and  technology  law,  both  from  a pragmatic  perspective  as  lawyers  at  the  bar  of  Brussels,  and  from  a  scientific  perspective  as  academics  at  the Interdisciplinary  Centre  for  Law  and  ICT  of  the  University  of  Leuven  (K.U.Leuven).  The  time.lex  team  is specifically  known  for  its  European  policy  studies  in  a  variety  of  subjects,  including  data  protection,  electronic signatures, electronic identity management, e-business and e-government, in which they can rely on an extensive network of IT law experts covering all European countries. From a business perspective, time.lex frequently assists companies  in  establishing suitable  policies  and  legal  frameworks  in  their  data  management  activities,  including with  regard  to  the  cross  border  transfer  and  processing  of  personal  data,  data  security  and  liability  management issues. Its clients include private companies and public sector bodies in the IT sector, financial services, e-health, marketing  and  e-commerce.  Specifically  in  the  area  of  eHealth  a  time.lex  team  headed  by  Jos  Dumortier  has authored  the  2009  European  report  on  “Legally  interoperable  eHealth  in  Europe”  (see:

http://www.ehealthnews.eu/download/publications/1755-study-on-the-legal-framework-for-interoperable-ehealth-in-europe). The same team is currently charged in the EAHC study “Overview of the national laws on electronic health records in the EU Member States” (http://ec.europa.eu/eahc/health/tenders_H06_2013.html