News & Events

In December, the LUCIA project released its fourth newsletter. This newsletter provides an update of the project activities over the previous months. In this edition, we talked about the social lab workshop, our past consortium meetings, healthcare personalization, lung cancer screening risk calculators and even some cluster updates! You can read it all here  

On 27 and 28 November, the LUCIA partners gathered in Seville, Spain, for another consortium meeting. During this meeting, an important focus was on the clinical side and patient recruitment. The November meeting was also the occasion for partners to display the role of the Virtual Research Environment and the advancements of the LUCIA technologies! […]

On 28 November 2024, at the LUCIA consortium meeting, the YAGHMA team organized a Value Realization workshop to address key challenges and identify solutions for the LUCIA project. Prior to the workshop, the team conducted a thematic analysis to categorize potential challenges into four key themes. These challenges were gathered from interviews with LUCIA clinical […]

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, […]