Go to main content | Go to main menu | Go to search

FG8 Data

About group Group members

The Alliance4Life Research Data Focus Group brings together experts from member institutions to advance the management, sharing, and use of research data in life sciences. Members collaborate to exchange best practices, develop innovative strategies, and strengthen their collective expertise in promoting open science and data integrity. Together, they benchmark data management standards, design strategic frameworks, and implement joint initiatives to enhance data accessibility, reproducibility, and compliance with evolving policies.

learn more

The group provides peer training and invites external experts to build skills in areas such as data stewardship, FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), and secure data storage. Members also identify funding opportunities to address shared challenges, such as implementing data governance policies or improving infrastructure for data sharing. Acting as an advisory body, the Research Data Focus Group offers guidance to work package and task leaders, ensuring that data management practices align with international standards and effectively support high-quality, impactful research.

General Contact:
A4Ldata@ceitec.muni.cz

Focus group members

Focus group chair

Witold Kozakiewicz

University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila"

e‑mail:

Focus group co-chair

Tina Triglav

University of Ljubljana

e‑mail:

Members of the Focus Group​

Vojtěch Bystrý

Central European Institute of Technology

e‑mail:

He is the Head of the Bioinformatics Core Facility at CEITEC and a specialist in developing tools for analyzing large-scale biological data, particularly focusing on building national and European genomic data infrastructures and applying artificial intelligence to sequencing datasets.

Witold Kozakiewicz

Medical University of Lodz

e‑mail:

Petra Dědičová

The International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne´s University Hospital

e‑mail:

Ondřej Uher

The International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne´s University Hospital

e‑mail:

Petra Weselá

The International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne´s University Hospital

e‑mail:

Vendula Kocandová

The International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne´s University Hospital

e‑mail:

Miloslav Karhanek

Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

e‑mail:

Miroslav Sabo

Biomedical Research Center of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

e‑mail:

Ivan Padjen

University of Zagreb School of Medicine

e‑mail:

Ivan Padjen is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Zagreb, and a consultant in Rheumatology at the UHC Zagreb. He teaches Internal Medicine, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology. He is also involved in research projects focusing on the clinical epidemiology of systemic lupus erythematosus and establishing a hospital-based database of SLE patients.

Priit Piir

University of Tartu

e‑mail:

Austė Kanapeckaitė

Vilnius University

e‑mail:

A leading expert in bio/chem-informatics and ML/AI for drug discovery, with a strong track record in therapeutic innovation and successful clinical programs at top-tier pharma. Her work pioneered adaptive learning in clinical pharmacology and transfer learning in R&D. She collaborates with pharma, VC firms, and academic institutions to drive translational solutions.

Martins Kuzmanis

Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis

e‑mail:

An IT specialist in Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis. He has more than 10 years experience of managing IT systems and user data, and has experience in software testing, as well as programming in Microsoft .NET. At the LIOS he works to maintain and improve user IT experience, as well as keep data secure and accessible.

Tina Triglav

University of Ljubljana

e‑mail:

Sergej Pirkmajer

University of Ljubljana

e‑mail:

Head of the Laboratory for Molecular Neurobiology and Associate Professor of Pathophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana. His research focuses on regulation of energy metabolism and ion transport in skeletal muscle cells.

Renáta Papp

Semmelweis University

e‑mail:
social and academic networks:

Director of the Center of Science & Innovations and Vice-Rector for Business Development at SU, with a focus on clinical and space pharmacology. She holds an MD and PhD in cardiovascular prevention and has over 15 years of experience in primary healthcare management. Additionally, she has worked in the pharma industry and served as Secretary General of the European Union of General Practitioners.

Zsolt Bagyura

Semmelweis University

e‑mail:

Dimitar Dobrinov Charakchiev

Medical University - Sofia

e‑mail:

Elena Poenaru

University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila"

e‑mail:

Octavian Andronic

University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila"

e‑mail:
social and academic networks:

An Assistant Professor of General Surgery at the University Emergency Hospital of Bucharest and Coordinator of the Big Data, AI, and eHealth Department at the Center for Innovation and eHealth. He is committed to advancing medical education, healthcare innovation, and fostering collaboration in scientific publishing as Chair of the Regional Chapters Committee of the European Association of Science Editors.

You are running an old browser version. We recommend updating your browser to its latest version.

More info