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February 2018

Call for proposals for a Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant:
Blockchain and e-Health

Career-FIT

Career Development Fellowships in the National Technology Centre Programme

The Applied Research for Connected Health (A.R.C.H.) research centre invites applicants to the Enterprise Ireland Marie Sklodowska-Curie cofunded transnational programme that offers an opportunity for experienced researchers to develop their careers in market focused applied research in Ireland's Technology Centres, with an enterprise secondment (of 6-12 months in an Enterprise Ireland client company) during the Fellowship (of 36 months).

Career-FIT is a postdoctoral fellowship programme, part-funded by Horizon 2020 and part-funded by Enterprise Ireland. A key feature of Career-FIT is the opportunity for experienced researchers from outside Ireland to develop their careers in market focused applied research through 3-year fellowships with secondment into industry through Ireland's Technology Centres (https://www.arch.ie/about-us/careers/).

Indicative salaries per year: without family €55,000, with family €60,000.

For more details about ARCH and this position, please see below. More info: ARCH, Career-FIT.

Application Deadline April 30, 2018 (17:00 CET)

Blockchain and e-Health

Potential candidates interested in research on blockchain applications for e-health can be supported in the development of their proposal by all, or any, of these scholars:

• Gerardine Doyle 
  is Associate Professor at UCD College of Business and has served as Head of the Accountancy Subject Area. Gerardine is a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School (2017) exploring the concept of Value Measurement for Health Care. She is a Principal Investigator at ARCH.
  More info: http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/business/assoc%20professorgerardinedoyle/ 
  E-mail: gerardine.doyle@ucd.ie
   
• Gerhard Schwabe 
  is Professor and head of the Information Management Research Group in the Faculty of Business and Economics and Informatics of the University of Zurich (http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/imrg.html), which was recently awarded a grant to develop a Car Dossier to keep a reliable record of vehicles (https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/imrg/research/car-dossier.html). Several of these challenges are comparable to those emerging from designing and implementing patient records.
  More info: http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/imrg/people/schwabe.html 
  E-mail: schwabe@ifi.uzh.ch
   
• Gianluca Miscione
  is Assistant Professor and director of the UCD Centre for Innovation Technology and Organization. He is P.I. of Coding Value research project, which started on digital currencies and is now expanding into blockchain applications. He worked on design research for e-health in the global context between 2002 and 2009.
  More info: http://www.ucd.ie/cito/members/gianlucamiscione/ 
  E-mail: gianluca.miscione@ucd.ie

If you are interested in collaborating with UCD and the University of Zurich on these matters, you are encouraged to contact them to discuss support to develop your project proposal for the above Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship.

Applied Research for Connected Health (A.R.C.H.)

Applied Research for Connected Health (ARCH) is an Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland funded Technology Centre, which is led by University College Dublin in collaboration with the University of Limerick. ARCH is an industry-informed centre providing access to world class clinicians, academics and patient cohorts to explore and evaluate potential connected health solutions for the global market.

In its Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation (2006-2013), the Irish Government proposed the establishment of technology centres to address the 'key issue of building and reinforcing areas of strength within both industry and academic sphere and ensuring that these are highly networked with each other'.

Given Ireland's critical mass of medical device companies, pharmaceutical companies, clinical research organisation and ICT companies as well as the government's eHealth Strategy, Ireland is in a unique position to become a global centre of activity and excellence in connected health and ARCH is at the centre of this unparalleled connected health education and research infrastructure.