WHO? | CIAO Project

More than 80 scientists from 50 institutions worldwide were collaborating in the CIAO project !

Watch their testimony in our video "Time to say CIAO to each other"

Disclaimer. The project was solely associated with individual scientist participation and their own expressions of interest and opinions, it does not represent the official position of any institutions.

The work within the project was organized among working groups and teams focusing on the different outcomes of the disease and on the different aspects of the project.

The collaboration of the CIAO crowd was governed by our Ground Rules, which can be downloaded here.

The CIAO co-ordination team provided steering to the project, manages activities, organises workshops, disseminates outputs.

Laure-Alix Clerbaux

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Clemens Wittwehr

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Penny Nymark

Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute

Sweden

Magdalini Sachana

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

(OECD) - France -

Brigitte Landesmann

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Sofia Batista Leite

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Eftychia Lekka

Biovista

Greece, Europe

Annamaria Carusi

Interchange Research

United Kingdom

Donna Macmillan

Human Society International (HSI)

United Kingdom

Laura Viviani

Human Society International

(HSI)

United States of America

Steve Edwards

RTI

United States of America

Vassilis Virvilis

Biovista

Greece, Europe

Kristie Sullivan

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM),

United States of America

Catharine Krebs

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM),

United States of America

Maria João Amorim

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Portugal

Julija Filipovska

Independent

North Macedonia

Jukka Sund

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Kate Willett

Human Society International

(HSI)

United States of America

Natalia Garcia-Reyero Vinas

ERDC

United States of America

The Hub-Lung AOP group focused on developing KEs common to multiple COVID-19 outcomes (e.g. coagulation, hyperinflammation) jointly with developing pulmonary AOPs.

Penny Nymark

Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute

Sweden

Maria João Amorim

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência

Portugal

Adrienne Layton

Independent,

United States of America

Anil Hormis

Sheffield Hallam University United Kingdom

Dania Movia

Trinity College Dublin

Irelan

Daniel Jacobson

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

United States of America

Dario Greco

Helsinki Institute for Life Sciences

Finland

Felicity Gavins

Brunel University London

United Kingdom - Europe

Gillina Bezemer

Impact Station - University of Utrecht

The Netherlands- Europe

Giusy del Giudice

Helsinki Institute for Life Sciences

Finland - Europe

Holly Mortensen

EPA

United States of America

Huynjoon Kong

University of Illinois

United States of America

Ian Choi

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Europe FmbH

Germany

Jennifer Waspe

Sheffield Hallam University United Kingdom

Jorid Sørli

The National Research Centre for the Working Environment

Danemark

Joshua Breidenbach

University of Toledo

United States of America

Jukka Sund

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Julija Filipovska

Independent

North Macedonia

Katherina Sewald

Fraunhofer ITEM

Germany

Katya Tsaioun

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg

United States of America

Laura Saarimaki

Helsinki Institute for Life Sciences

Finland

Laure-Alix Clerbaux

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Luigi Margiotta-Casaluci

Brunel University London

United Kingdom

Marvin Martens

Maatstricht University,

The Netherlands

Merlin Mei

EPA

United States of America

Rik de Swart

University of Wageningen

the Netherland

Sabina Hallapanavar

Health Canada

Canada

Sally Mayasich

US EPA

Unitesd States of America

Shihori Tanabe

National Institute of Health Sciences

Japan

Youngjun Kim

KIST Europe

Germany

The Neuro AOP group focused on developing AOPs and KEs linked to neuropathological conditions (anosmia, seizures, epilepsy, encephalitis, …) -

Magdalini Sachana

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

(OECD) - France

Helena Hogberg

Johns Hopkins University

United States of America

Alan Hargreaves

Nottingham Trent University

United Kingdom

Amalia Munoz-Pineiro

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Anna Price

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Francesca deBernardi

Ospedale Varese

Italy

Francesca Pistollato

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Laure-Alix Clerbaux

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Muhammad Ali Shahbaz

University of Eastern Finland

Finland

Natalia Garcia-Reyero Vinas

ERDC

United States of America

Sandra Coecke

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Surat Saravanan

HSI

India

The Multi-Organ group and Gut sub-group focused on developing AOPs specific to liver, kidney, heart and gut

Kristie Sullivan

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM),

United States of America

Laure-Alix Clerbaux

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Maria Cristina Albertini

Universita degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo

Italy - Europe

Evangelos Daskalopoulos

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Julija Filipovska

Independent

North Macedonia

Daniel Jacobson

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

United States of America

Amalia Munoz-Pineiro

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Natalia Garcia-Reyero Vinas

ERDC

United States of America

Lucia Grenga

CEA, Paris

France

Mathieu Vinken

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Belgium

Mauro Petrillo

Seidor

Italy

The Modulating factors group focused on integrating modulating factors into KEs/KERs/AOP

Brigitte Landesmann

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Alberto Mantovani

Istituto Superiore di Sanita

Italy

Amalia Munoz-Pineiro

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Alicia Paini

EqsLab

Germany

Mauro Petrillo

Seidor

Italy

Anna Beronius

Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute

Sweden - Europe

Daniel Jacobson

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

United States of America

Elma Omeragic

University of Sarajevo

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Gillina Bezemer

Impact Station - University of Utrecht

The Netherlands- Europe

Giusy del Giudice

Helsinki Institute for Life Sciences

Finland - Europe

Helena Soares

Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Portugal

Kristie Sullivan

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM),

United States of America

Evangelos Daskalopoulos

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Laure-Alix Clerbaux

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Maria Cristina Albertini

Universita degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo

Italy - Europe

Mylene Huynh

TruPoint Health

United States of America

Nikolaos Parissis

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Nuria Amigo Grau

Biosfer Teslab

Spain

Sandra Coecke

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Laura Saarimaki

Helsinki Institute for Life Sciences

Finland - Europe

The literature review group explored how to apply systematic literature review to support AOP development (neuro pilot study)

Donna Macmillan

Human Society International (HSI)

United Kingdom

Alan Hargreaves

Nottingham Trent University

United Kingdom

Helena Hogberg

Johns Hopkins University

United States of America

Jennifer Waspe

Sheffield Hallam University United Kingdom - Europe

Elma Omeragic

University of Sarajevo

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Joshi Ojasi

University of Mumbai

India

Natalia Garcia-Reyero Vinas

ERDC

United States of America

Joshua Breidenbach

University of Toledo

United States of America

Julija Filipovska

Independent

North Macedonia - Europe

Katya Tsaioun

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg

United States of America

Rebecca Elmore

Sciome

United States of America

Rebecca Ram

Safer Medicines Trust

United Kingdom

Shannon Plant

University of Sussex

United Kingdom

Ishita Virmani

Johns Hopkins University

United States of America

The CIAO ontology team aimed to work on ontology harmonization of the CIAO AOPs to allow ideal network visualization

Christos Andronis

Biovista

Greece, Europe

Clemens Wittwehr

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Eftychia Lekka

Biovista

Greece, Europe

Steve Edwards

RTI

United States of America

Vassilis Virvilis

Biovista

Greece, Europe

Penny Nymark

Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute

Sweden - Europe

Merlin Mei

EPA

United States of America

Ian Choi

Korea Institute of Science and Technology Europe FmbH

Germany - Europe

Laure-Alix Clerbaux

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Marvin Martens

Maatstricht University,

The Netherlands, Europe

Ivana Campia

Joint Research Centre (JRC),

European Commission

Italy - EU

Laura Saarimaki

Helsinki Institute for Life Sciences

Finland - Europe

Julija Filipovska

Independent

North Macedonia - Europe

Andreas Persidis

Biovista

Greece, Europe

The multiscale impact group aimed to elucidate the multiscale factors of COVID-19 across levels and time and evolve the AOPs to address those multiscale aspects.