Winners of the ORCHESTRA Science Challenge

20.12.2023 The ORCHESTRA science challenge allows external scientists to research their COVID-19 related questions with ORCHESTRA data using federated learning. After looking carefully at the applications, we are happy to now announce the two winners of the challenge:

 

Martin Brizuela (Hospital Vélez Sarsfield, Buenos Aires, Argentina) will examine the data of patients under 18 years with and without risk factors such as HIV. In this group he will analyse predictors of Long COVID/multisystemic inflammatory disease, predictors of severity and mortality of SARS-COV-2 infections, and lower respiratory infections during and after acute COVID-19 infections.

 

The EuCARE-POSTCOVID Project (Milan, Italy) will assess persisting COVID-19 symptoms within 1 year after acute infection in outpatients/patients with mild/moderate disease treated with a 3-day course of Remdesivir or Ritonavir compared to patients with other or no drugs administered.

 

We look forward to collaborate with both winners and are happy to support their research into COVID-19.

 

More information about the challenge is available here: https://orchestra-cohort.eu/science-challenge-2023/