Dear members of EASYM and other interested readers,
 
EASYM (European Association of Systems Medicine) was founded in September 2015 and therefore celebrated its 5th birthday last year.

Many things have happened in these past five years.
Systems Medicine approaches have been broadly incorporated in the academic arena and its principles are progressively embedded into ongoing translational research programs. They have led to a better understanding of disease mechanisms, as well as to better capture the nature of disease interactions, paving the way for new therapies.
Moreover, Systems Medicine is contributing to define novel strategies aiming at optimizing health value generation. 

For Systems Medicine to be able to radically change health care still large steps have to be taken. This is why EASYM thinks it is important to bring together all stakeholders in the field (biologists, computational scientists, clinical researchers, practicing clinicians and managers) to discuss and work together on methodology, interpretation of data and implementation of results in clinical care.

To be able to bring these stakeholders together, EASYM considers pivotal to organize a 2-yearly networking event with a strong program to inspire and to give people the opportunity to discuss and brainstorm together.

Furthermore, EASYM wants to play a role in training scientists working in the field of Systems Medicine and educating clinicians to promote clinical practicalities of the approach.

Finally, EASYM wants to include young scientists in these efforts and has therefore installed a junior board to advise the board what they need to be successful in the field.

Because it was not possible to organize a face-to-face meeting in 2020 we decided to postpone the 3rd EASYM conference, on "Systems Medicine Approaches to Global Challenges", to 10-12 November 2021.
However, because the course of the pandemic is still not predictable and travel might still be difficult later this year the board has decided to organize this year's meeting as a virtual event. The plans for the event are developing rapidly and we will present the program in the coming weeks.
 
To get most out of this virtual program we consider important to have participants from all stakeholder groups and to provide enough opportunities for the audience to participate in discussions. Please inform all your colleagues about the event.
 
Systems Medicine is a must for a healthy future (as we have seen in the recent pandemic), and EASYM can help moving the field forward. For that reason, we ask you to join forces.
Together we can make a difference! 
 
Prof. Dr. Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee

Systems Medicine represents a pathway towards personalised medicine of multi-factorial diseases (such as metabolic, inflammatory, respiratory, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers). Systems medicine applies novel approaches of data integration and computational analysis, including the analysis of metabolic, transcriptional factors and other networks.  
The 3rd EASyM conference will cover novel visions of  the  21^stcentury medicine.  Current examples of Systems Medicine and how they will shape the future of medical care will be presented at the conference
– please follow  www.easym.eu for details.

Bored by the classic congresses where peer-to-peer exchange and participation are limited? SYSMED CAMPs are the answer!

Bottom-up interdisciplinary UNCONFERENCES, where all participants are speakers and managers of the conference!

The goal is to network and build trans-disciplinary knowledge and co-operations.

Only the general title of the meeting is decided beforehand.
During the meeting, each participant will propose the subject of her/his short talk to extensively interact with others in highly-generative parallel sessions. The conclusions of each session will then be discussed in a plenary session. 

At the moment, SYSMED CAMPs will be online and the total duration of a camp is around 90 minutes.

We encourage a wide participation of academic and non-academic professionals from different areas of the Systems medicine pillars, including the ambitious younger scientists in early phases of their careers: in addition to experimental scientists, bioinformaticians, and IT colleges, also physicians, nurses, patients, healthcare experts, and industry.

Why not starting from now? Let’s begin by choosing together the title of the meetings…. Click below to discover the possible titles and vote the poll

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Journals

Networks and Systems Medicine (The Official Journal of EASYM) - Current Issue
Open access, peer-reviewed journal focused on interdisciplinary approaches to exploiting the power of big data by applying systems biology and network medicine. 

Books

Systems Medicine. Integrative, Qualitative and Computational Approaches,
O. Wolkenauer ed, 
Elsevier, 2020
 
Complex Systems and Population Health - A Primer
Apostolopoulos Y, Hasmiller Lych K, Lemke MK
Oxford University Press, 2020

Articles

An Early Stage Researcher's Primer on Systems Medicine Terminology
Zanin M et al.  (2021) | Network and Systems Medicine, 4: 2-50.

COVID-19 and Beyond: A Call for Action and Audacious Solidarity to All the Citizens and Nations, It Is Humanity’s Fight
Auffray, C et al. (2020) | Available at SSRN

CovMulNet19, Integrating Proteins, Diseases, Drugs, and Symptoms: A Network Medicine Approach to COVID-19
Verstraete N et al.  (2020) | Network and Systems Medicine, 130-141.

Network and Systems Medicine: Position Paper of the European Collaboration on Science and Technology Action on Open Multiscale Systems Medicine
Comte B et al. (2020) | Network and Systems Medicine, 67-90.
 
Recent Advances in Systems and Network Medicine: Meeting Report from the First International Conference in Systems and Network Medicine. 
Syst Med (New Rochelle). 2020 Feb 26;3(1):22-35. doi: 10.1089/sysm.2020.0001. eCollection 2020.Syst Med (New Rochelle). 2020.PMID: 32226924
 
Series of articles: 
 
BMC Systems Biology– a thematic series on Systems Medicine 2019, guest Editor Dimiter Dimitrov,  MD, PhD: Springer Nature, https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/sysmed