CANDLE is a three-year EU-funded project (2025 – 2028) supporting Member States and Associated Countries in setting up National Cancer Data Nodes. These NCDNs will boost the reuse of cancer data for research, innovation and policy making, in order to improve diagnostics and treatment for cancer patients, as well as prevention and early detection for citizens not yet affected by the disease. Kickstarted by the implementation of the European Health Data Space, and building on national collaborative networks, NCDNs will provide researchers improved and cross border access to larger data sets of better quality.
CANDLE works in the context of two high level political initiatives that guide the European perspective on cancer research and health data:
The ability to reuse patient-level clinical, genomic, radiology, and digital pathology data at scale is necessary to accelerate cancer prevention, early detection, and treatment innovation. The data-integration platforms cBioPortal has been an integral effort in making this vision tangible for clinicians and researchers alike. The cBioPortal Symposium will be held on November 11th, 09:00 – [...]
The latest edition of the EU Cancer Mission Implementation Newsletter is now available. Among the mission updates, you can find CANDLE as one of the featured projects! CANDLE is highlighted in the newsletter as one of the initiatives helping Europe unlock the power of cancer data, alongside our partner projects EU-CIP and UNCAN-Connect. The newsletter [...]
The CANDLE Project was represented in the 15th meeting of the 1+MG group by our project coordinator, Lifang Liu. During the 15th meeting of the group, held on September 10th in Copenhagen, CANDLE was introduced at the 1+MG meeting by CANDLE co-coordinator Lifang Liu in a special 30-minute slot. The CANDLE project introduction was followed [...]
