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Horizon Health: Virtual Human Twins for Clinical Decision Support

Funds €10–12M projects that make Virtual Human Twins useful for prevention, diagnosis and safer clinical decisions.

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Virtual Human Twins can combine a person’s data with biological and clinical models to help healthcare teams predict risk, diagnose disease and choose better interventions. The challenge is making these systems reliable, useful and safe in real care.

This topic funds integrated clinical decision-support approaches that connect data, models and digital tools for prevention and diagnosis. Projects

Developing and validating Virtual Human Twins for integrated clinical decision support in prevention and diagnosis. Projects should combine patient data, biological and clinical models, interoperable digital tools and relevant AI or simulation methods to support personalised risk assessment and care decisions. They must address validation, bias, privacy, explainability, interoperability and the path to clinical adoption.

CycleiHow often this grant runs — e.g. annually, on a rolling basis, or a one-off call.Annual
Next deadlineiThe next date applications are due. Rolling means you can apply any time.22 Sept 2027
Decision timeiTypical time from the deadline to the funder's decision.22 weeks
Project durationiHow long the funded work is expected to run.
Award typeiThe form of funding — grant, equity, loan, tax credit, etc.Grant
Match fundingiThe share of project costs you must cover yourself. 0% = fully funded.0%
Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.€39.3M

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Last verified: 25 Aug 2026Funder reference: HORIZON-HLTH-2027-03-TOOL-04Source: ec.europa.eu