On the 11th and 12th January the first meeting of the PERFORM consortium took place, in London, hosted by Imperial College as the project’s coordinating institution.

All main partner representatives were in attendance, as well as both Project Officers from Brussels who were able to meet the partners and provide extremely useful overviews of what the European Commission will expect in the following 5 years.

The meeting schedule was quite ambitious, in order to be able to cover all the main scientific Work-Packages and, more importantly, to give partners the chance to discuss in detail the first steps to be taken with regards to the clinical recruitment which will be taking place in the first phase of the project, along with all the initial stage approvals that will be needed from the different recruitment sites.

The first steps in the search for a test to screen between bacterial and viral infections have, in this way, been taken.