"We heard from so many people who wanted to submit professional papers to the HealthGrid Conference but couldn't meet our original deadline", stated Jonathan Silverstein, M.D., President, HealthGrid.US, and Associate Director, Computation Institute, Argonne/University of Chicago. "So our programme committee decided to give them another week."

The HealthGrid conference, "Global HealthGrid: eScience Meets Biomedical Informatics", will be held in Chicago. It is the premier conference on the transformation of biomedical research, education and medical care through the application of Grid technologies.

Research papers - up to 5000 words - with applications that demonstrate Grid-based resources are encouraged. Best papers will be selected for oral presentation at the annual conference. Criteria for presentation will be based on the content of the submitted papers, the originality of the contribution, technical quality, style and clarity of presentation, and importance to the field of advancing biomedical informatics and eScience.

On-line submission for papers is available at http://papers.healthgrid.org/