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[PROJECT] EUROCANPLATFORM - A European Platform for Translational Cancer Research
ID: 260791
Start date: 2011-01-01, End date: 2016-12-31
Europe has a number of advantages as regards developing translational cancer research, yet there is no clear European strategy to meet the increasing burden posed by cancer. The FP6 Eurocan+Plus project analysed the barriers underlying the increasing fragmentation of cancer r...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 97701
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] RATHER - Rational Therapy for Breast Cancer: Individualized Treatment for Difficult-to-Treat Breast Cancer Subtypes
ID: 258967
Start date: 2011-01-01, End date: 2018-06-30
Cancer genotyping has identified a number of correlations between mutations in specific genes and responses to targeted anti-cancer drugs, with many mutations occurring in kinases or downstream signaling components. While there are several ongoing large-scale genome re-sequen...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 97660
Last updated on: 2017-07-16
[PROJECT] ASFRISK - Evaluating and controlling the risk of African swine fever in the EU
ID: 211691
Start date: 2008-04-01, End date: 2011-09-30
African swine fever (ASF) in EU member states is currently confined to Italy (Sardinia), it was recently introduced to Caucasian regions and it is highly prevalent in sub-Saharan African countries. In both the EC and Africa changes in the epidemiology of the disease have rece...
Programme: FP7-KBBE
Record Number: 88394
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] METOXIA - Metastatic tumours facilitated by hypoxic tumour micro-environments
ID: 222741
Start date: 2009-02-01, End date: 2014-07-31
Recent research suggests that the hypoxic micro-environment of tumours is one of the major drivers of metastatic spread of cancer. Furthermore, hypoxic tumour micro-environments may result in treatment resistance of cancer cells, therefore causing a double effect of reducing ...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 91061
Last updated on: 2017-07-12
[PROJECT] ENS@T-CANCER - European Network for the Study of Adrenal Tumours - Structuring clinical research on adrenal cancers in adults
ID: 259735
Start date: 2011-01-01, End date: 2016-06-30
Among patients with adrenal masses Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) and malignant pheochromocytomas (MPH) are found with a low incidence but very unfavorable prognosis. Due to this poor clinical outcome, concomitant hormone dysregulation and limited treatment options the two ca...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 97662
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] DECIDE - Developing and Evaluating Communication strategies to support Informed Decisions and practice based on Evidence
ID: 258583
Start date: 2011-01-01, End date: 2015-12-31
Objective: To improve the dissemination of evidence-based recommendations by building on the work of the GRADE Working Group to develop and evaluate methods that address the targeted dissemination of guidelines. Background: Healthcare decision makers face challenges in unders...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 97693
Last updated on: 2017-06-26
[PROJECT] MM4TB - More Medicines for Tuberculosis
ID: 260872
Start date: 2011-02-01, End date: 2016-07-31
The More Medicines for Tuberculosis (MM4TB) consortium evolved from the highly successful FP6 project, New Medicines for TB (NM4TB), that delivered a candidate drug for clinical development two years ahead of schedule. Building on these firm foundations and exploiting its pro...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 98754
Last updated on: 2017-05-26
[PROJECT] EUROTARGET - European collaborative project on Targeted therapy in renal cell cancer: genetic and tumor-related biomarkers for response and toxicity
ID: 259939
Start date: 2011-03-01, End date: 2016-08-31
Each year more than 63,000 new cases of kidney cancer are diagnosed in the European Union. Approx. 50% of all patients have metastasized renal cell cancer (mRCC) at presentation or develop metastases during follow-up. 5-year relative survival of mRCC has been extremely poor: ...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 98406
Last updated on: 2017-05-26
[PROJECT] PANACREAS - Integrating chemical approaches to treat pancreatic cancer: making new leads for a cure
ID: 256986
Start date: 2011-03-01, End date: 2016-02-29
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) causes 34000 deaths in the EU every year. Conventional cancer treatments have close to no impact on this disease. As a result, almost all patients diagnosed with PDAC develop metastases and eventually die. Given this poor outlook, the s...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 98369
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] FIT FOR HEALTH - Promoting participation of high-tech research-intensive SMEs in Health
ID: 260748
Start date: 2010-10-01, End date: 2013-09-30
Fit for Health aims to sustainably enhance the participation of European small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Calls for the FP7 Health Theme. Focusing on research-intensive, high technology SMEs, the project offers targeted support measures, covering the entire innovat...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 96688
Last updated on: 2017-05-26
List retrieved on: 2017-08-02
