DMCM2025

The 9th Disease Maps Community Meeting is organised by the Biomechanics Research Unit, KU Leuven and University of Liège and hosted at the KU Leuven, Leuven - Belgium.

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Key dates

Registration starts: 31 October 2024
Abstract submission starts: 31 October 2024
Abstract submission deadline: ~~31 January 2025~~ 14 February 2025 - Extended deadline -> Submissions closed
Registration deadline: 21 March 2025

Abstract submission

Submissions closed.

Registration

Registration is free of charge but mandatory for all attendees. Please register by 21st March 2025 using this form. You will recieve an email with confirmation.

Programme

The detailed programme can be found HERE.

We are excited to announce our keynote speakers:

	Livia Perfetto, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Toward PatientProfiler, a network-based approach to support personalized medicine \| Abstract
	Joaquín Dopazo, Fundacion Progreso y Salud, Spain Therapeutic target discovery and drug repurposing with causal modeling of disease maps and artificial intelligence \| Abstract
	Lisa Mathews, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhanced Biocuration and User Interaction in Reactome: A Pathway Towards Community-Driven Knowledge Enrichment \| Abstract
	Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Strategies to unlock disease information using clinical NLP for different languages: diseases, symptoms, medications, procedures, species, and social determinants of health \| Abstract

Venue

KU Leuven - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Ghb - Onderwijs en Navorsing 2
ON2 Herestraat 49
3000 Leuven - Belgium
Building number: 402-18

Sister Meetings

byteMAL’25 - Monday 14th April 2025

HARMONY 2025 - Simultaneously from 15th to 17th April 2025 at the same venue.

More information can be found here

Travel

From Brussels-Zaventem Airport (BRU) you can take a train at the airport station to Leuven Central Station and then a bus at the bus station in front of the train station. The R90 should take around 14min to arrive at the Leuven Gasthuisberg Campus stop, just in front of the venue.

From Brussels South-Charleroi Airport (CRL) you can take a bus, taxi or shuttle to Charleroi Central train station and take a train to Leuven from there. Shuttles to Midi (Zuid) station in Brussels and then a train to Leuven from there is also an option.

Leuven is a very cyclable city. If you come by train or car you can bring your bike and enjoy the beautiful city!

Accomodations

Hotel Mille Colonnes
Martelarenplein 5, 3000 Leuven, Belgium In front of the train station, easy access to the bus station. Distance to the conference venue: 14 min by bus, 14 min by bike, 45 min walking.

ibis Leuven Centrum
Brusselsestraat 52, 3000 Leuven, Belgium At the core of the city center, easy access to bus stops. Distance to the conference venue: 13 min by bus. 9 min by bike. 28 min walking.

Other accommodations options can be found on Booking.com and Airbnb (specially if you want to stay closer to the venue).

Organisers

Liesbet Geris
Luiz Ladeira
Bernard Staumont
Marek Ostaszewski
Ahmed Hemedan
Marcio Luis Acencio
Alexander Mazein
Anna Niarakis
Laurence Calzone
Emmanuel Barillot
Martina Summer-Kutmon

	Livia Perfetto, Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy Toward PatientProfiler, a network-based approach to support personalized medicine \| Abstract
	Joaquín Dopazo, Fundacion Progreso y Salud, Spain Therapeutic target discovery and drug repurposing with causal modeling of disease maps and artificial intelligence \| Abstract
	Lisa Mathews, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, USA Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhanced Biocuration and User Interaction in Reactome: A Pathway Towards Community-Driven Knowledge Enrichment \| Abstract
	Martin Krallinger, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Strategies to unlock disease information using clinical NLP for different languages: diseases, symptoms, medications, procedures, species, and social determinants of health \| Abstract