The video conference of the Presidency of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA2020.hr): The impact of the MSCA and future challenges will be held virtually in Zagreb (Croatia) on 19 June 2020, under the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Judit Chamorro, a member of the PhySense Research Group at the UPF Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) is leading the European project COLONINFO, coordinated by UPF.  “The Conference has chosen her CV and the video of her project as one of three finalists in category III: for the impact of intersectoral and interdisciplinary mobility and transfer of knowledge”, the organizers of the prize stated.

An international, interdisciplinary scientific track record

Judit Chamorro holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics (UAB) and two master’s degrees from the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse (France) and the from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. She received her doctorate from the Carlos III University of Madrid and did her postdoctoral training at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute-UoA (New Zealand) and at UoB, Inria & IHU-Liryc in Bordeaux (France).

During her scientific career, she has received six grants, including two international periods at the Technical University of Denmark and at the University of British Columbia (Canada). Concerning her collaborations with international centres Chamorro states that she has “found new angles for research and worked on various biomedical applications (optical, tomography, cardiology and electromagnetism); all related to the modelling, optimization and reconstruction of signal/image issues”. As a teacher, she has taught on the bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

COLONINFO, a project at the innovation and knowledge transfer stage

The project has provided preliminary software that allows detecting the angular position of abnormal tissue within an intracorporeal tract

COLONINFO, in an interdisciplinary way, has provided a model to study the possibility of ascertaining the degree of malignancy of abnormal tissue (quantification of cancer), and a microwave image reconstruction software to provide a new clinical use pre-prototype. Or, in other words, a model to study the possibility or not of quantification, and an initial software that allows detecting the angular position of abnormal tissue within an intracorporeal tract. The results could easily be transferred and extended to cover new medical needs of society.

The MSCA impact and future challenges Conference aims to bring together the scientific community, experts and evaluators, representatives from the non-academic sector, representatives from the European Commission, Horizon 2020 National Contact Points and Programme Committee members, Member State policy makers, officials and stakeholders from across Europe to hold high-level discussions on the impact of the MSCA on brain circulation and the transformational landscape of research.

Reference project:

COLONINFO 794.370: Improving COLOrectal cancer screening: Novel INverse and FOrward algorithms for a new real-time microwave endoscopy (2018-2020), coordinated by Judit Chamorro of UPF.