The Mobilise-D Consortium is incredibly proud that our own WP2 star academic leader, Professor Claudia Mazzà from the University of Sheffield, is a recipient of the Suffrage Science award, celebrating women in science for their scientific achievements and their ability to inspire others. The Suffrage Science scheme was founded by the Medical Research Council’s London Institute…
Mobility is often said to be a sixth vital sign, just as important as other vital signs such as blood pressure and heart rate, and the key to independence in our daily life. But what does mobility actually mean for people? And what happens when they experience mobility loss? We asked several people what the…
The gait of patients with Parkinson’s Disease is typically assessed in a laboratory but with current developments in sensor technology, their gait could be assessed in the home environment as well. But how comparable are these two? Researchers from University Hospital Erlangen studied this question. In a reliability analysis, they compared standardized and supervised sensor-based…
The Virtual Physiological Human Conference (VPH2020) was held online August 24-28 with several representatives from the Mobilise-D consortium. This year, the focus was on “When models, methods & experiments meet the clinic”. Prof. Claudia Mazzà from the University of Sheffield, Mobilise-D’s Academic Lead of WP2 – Algorithm development and technical validation, chaired the session “Monitoring &…