Objective
Blood transfusion is universally practised in all European countries. Blood is a biologic material that has the potential to transmit diseases (e.g. HIV and, perhaps, vCJD). European citizens are becoming increasingly concerned about blood safety, despite improved screening and processing. Such concerns are making people reluctant to donate blood or receive it through transfusions. Safe, effective and commercially viable blood substitutes will overcome this problem.
The EuroBloodSubstitutes Project brings together a multi-disciplinary, mixed gender team of experienced academic scientists, clinicians, industrialists and transfusion specialists to develop an integrated technological platform for generating blood substitutes for critical blood components, in particular oxygen carriers (novel prototype haem proteins), that will, longer-term, benefit all European citizens. The Project has a fundamental focus on novel, genomic-based approaches, involving the use of cell factories, for developing and optimising strategies for the efficient generation, modification, purification, biochemical and biophysical characterisation and physiological evaluation of prototype native, modified and variant haemoglobins for improved formulations of blood substitutes to replace some blood uses.
The project will be informed by consultation and dialogue with lay (i.e. the public, patient groups), professional (clinical preservers and providers) and commercial (especially SME) stakeholders. The EuroBloodSubstitutes Project is directly relevant to the LifeSciHealth Thematic Priority of the 6th Framework Programme because it provides a baseline for integrating post-genomic research into biomedicaland biotechnological areas (generating prototype critical blood substitute components) that aims to stengthen European commerce (through blood substitute manufacture) and improve the future quality of life (through blood substitute use) for European people.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- medical and health sciences health sciences infectious diseases RNA viruses HIV
- social sciences economics and business business and management commerce
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Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
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Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Call for proposal
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Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
FP6-2002-LIFESCIHEALTH
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Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Coordinator
NOTTINGHAM
United Kingdom
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