European-funded health research will focus on three pillars
Biotechnology, generic tools and medical technologies for human health
- High-throughput research: enhancing data generation, standardisation, acquisition & analysis.
- Detection, diagnosis and monitoring: with emphasis on non-invasive or minimally invasive approaches.
- Prediction of suitability, safety and efficacy of therapies: develop and validate parameters, tools, methods and standards (mainly through the Innovative Medicines Initiative - IMI) and alternatives to animal testing.
- Innovative therapeutic approaches and interventions: gene and cell therapy, regenerative medicine, immunotherapy and vaccines.
Translating research for human health
- Integration of biological data and processes: large-scale data gathering, systems biology.
- Research on the brain and related diseases, human development and ageing.
- Research on infectious diseases (antimicrobial drug resistance, HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, emerging epidemics, neglected infectious diseases).
- Research on major diseases: cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes/obesity, rare diseases, other chronic diseases including rheumatoid diseases, arthritis and muscoskeletal diseases.
Optimising the delivery of healthcare to European citizens
- Translation of clinical outcome into clinical practice: patient safety, better use of medicines, benchmarking, pharmacovigilance .
- Quality, efficiency and solidarity of health care systems.
- Enhanced health promotion and disease prevention.
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Registration of Experts for FP7 Research Activities
The Health Directorate is currently seeking top industrial/scientific experts to support the selection of the best FP7 proposals. If you are a scientist working in Health industry (large or small company), you can enrol yourself as an independent expert evaluator for FP7 Research Activities.
FP7 proposals are selected through a peer review system, where top experts in the fields of the proposals being evaluated are involved in a fair and transparent assessment of the submitted proposals that follows the EC rules for evaluation, selection and award procedures.
Being an expert evaluator for Research Activities of FP7 is a useful experience to understand the EC evaluation system and it is generally considered very valuable. Compensation is foreseen both for time and expenses. Register here!
Last updated on: 2012-03-28
