News & Events

The LUCIA Consortium recently visited the Los Carteros Primary Care Center in San José de la Rinconada, Seville. This center is one of the pivotal sites participating in the recruitment phase of the LUCIA prospective study in Andalucía. The study, which aims to recruit 4,000 patients across all participating clinical sites in Spain, Belgium and […]

The annual Understanding (risk factors & determinants) cluster meeting was held on the 15 of October 2024, in the IARC facilities, Lyon, France – hosted by DISCERN project. The LUCIA project was represented in person by Dr. Yoav Broza LUCIA’s Project Manager together with Silke Fiers, LUCIA’s legal representative. Laura Garcia Ibanez, the HaDEA Project […]

On 9 and 10 May 2024, Doctors Eunate Arana Arri and Mónica Saiz, researchers of the LUCIA EU Project, participated in the 1st Conference on Lung Cancer of the Basque Country. During the conference, various topics were discussed regarding advances in the treatment of early stages of non-metastatic lung cancer. Dr. Eunate Arana, head of […]

On 14 June 2024, the ONCOSCREEN project hosted the Second Annual Cluster meeting of the Cancer Prevention and Early Detection (Screening) cluster in Rhodes (Greece). Each project from the cluster, including LUCIA, presented their progress and discussed forthcoming tasks and recommendations. The clusters working groups also presented their advancements. Annual Cluster Meeting Press Release

On 5 June 2024, the first online Social Lab workshop with multistakeholder experts took place thanks to the work of LUCIA’s partner YAGHMA. During the workshop, we focused on the barriers of implementing LUCIA technologies in the future for different lung cancer screening scenarios. This workshop followed the brainstorming with LUCIA EU Project partners on […]

World Lung Cancer Day – EU4Health and Horizon Europe projects working on early detection – European Commission (europa.eu)

On 4th July 2024, the European Commission is hosting the first project cluster webinar exploring how to work together to make better use of project results in the area of understanding cancer. The LUCIA EU project is part of the cluster of the Understanding (risk factors & determinants) cluster with four other projects: Melcaya, Genial, […]

On 6 and 7 May 2024, the LUCIA EU Project met in Mannheim (Germany) for its consortium meeting! These two days encompassed insightful updates on the work achieved by partners since January 2023, discussions of the challenges ahead and of upcoming developments. On the second day, the project also had its first internal social lab […]

In December 2023, LUCIA’s partners from SAS-FISEVI released a first version of a dataset incuding prescriptions, diagnoses and procedures of 3000 synthetic lung cancer patients to speed up the development of the lung cancer risk factor AI-based model. In the frame of the task T2.1 “Data source identification, preparation & privacy enhancing ETL processes”, the […]

The cluster on Prevention and Early Detection (Screening) released its first newsletter in December 2023! In it, you can read all about the different projects, their solutions, achievements in 2023 and a little outlook for 2024! Read the newsletter here!