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On 27 May 2025, the LUCIA project held a hybrid scientific evening titled “Lung Cancer can’t wait – Prevent it, Detect it early, Save Lives” in Bilbao, Spain. Aligning with the objectives of the Cancer Mission to ensure that early detection initiatives lead to meaningful health improvements, the event featured participation from leading experts, physicians, […]

The LUCIA project aims to develop prediction models for early diagnosis of lung cancer (LC) based on the identification of risk factors and a deeper cellular understanding, by the register of real-world data. These models will allow the implementation of new clinical pathways and diagnosis workflow to ensure early diagnosis and confirmation, including subtypes of […]

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In March 2025, the Prevention & Early Detection (Screening) cluster released its third newsletter!   In this edition, all the cluster projects (LUCIA, DIOPTRA, MammoScreen, ONCOSCREEN, PANCAID and SANGUINE) each present one of their key elements!   Read the newsletter here!   If you want to know more about the projects, follow our social media […]

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 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!

On 6 March 2023, the LUCIA EU Project held the kick-off meeting of the “Understanding” Cancer Cluster within the EU Cancer Mission. This cluster gather five Horizon Europe projects: LUCIA – Understanding Lung Cancer related risk factors and their Impact Assessment MELCAYA – Novel health care strategies for melanoma in children, adolescents and young adults […]

On 1 and 2 February 2023, the LUCIA Consortium met for the first time in Technion University, in Haifa (Israel). Nearly 50 people among the project’s partners gathered for the kick-off meeting. Partners exchanged ideas, discussed workflows and shared their motivation and enthusiasm to be part of this interdisciplinary and diverse consortium.