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[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
ID: IC18970215
Start date: 1997-12-01, End date: 2001-11-30
* To describe and interpret the practices and popular representations in connection with health and the illness in West Africa, and their interactions with the practices and representations of the health workers.
* To use thus collected socio-anthropological knowledge to impr...
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 40176
Last updated on: 2001-12-07
ID: IC18980382
Start date: 1998-10-01, End date: 2002-03-31
Programme: FP4-INCO
Record Number: 46499
Last updated on: 1999-03-11
[PROJECT] MITIN - INTEGRATION OF THE SYSTEM MODELS OF INSULIN SIGNALLING AND OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTION AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE STUDY OF COMPLEX DISEASES
ID: 223450
Start date: 2008-11-01, End date: 2011-10-31
A common trait to disorders such as type 2 diabetes or obesity is the development of insulin resistance. There is evidence indicating the existence of a bidirectional cross-talk between insulin signalling and mitochondrial function that may be relevant for the pathogenesis of...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 88487
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
ID: 200923
Start date: 2008-04-01, End date: 2011-09-30
The TNF Receptor Associated Syndrome (TRAPS) is a rare disease of innate immunity, caused by mutations in TNFR1. It is characterised by recurrent bouts of fever and pain and mainly affects patients of European ancestry. The development of renal amyloidosis in up to 20% of cas...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 88157
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] OPTIMUNISE - Optimising the impact and cost-effectiveness of child health intervention programmes of vaccines and micronutrients in low-income countries
ID: 261375
Start date: 2011-03-01, End date: 2016-08-31
International child health programmes in low-income countries are justified in term of their impact on child survival. However, the effect estimates are usually calculated from performance indicators and assumptions about efficacy based on small-scale target-specific studies....
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 98247
Last updated on: 2017-05-26
[PROJECT] E3 - E3 - Extreme Event Ecology
ID: 282250
Start date: 2012-01-01, End date: 2016-12-31
"With anthropogenic warming, extreme events have already increased in magnitude and frequency and are likely to continue to do so in the near future. These extreme events play decisive roles in climate change impacts. Natural and managed systems, such as agriculture and fores...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 101237
Last updated on: 2015-03-10
[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Report Summary - E3 (E3 - Extreme Event Ecology)
With global warming, extreme events are very likely to change in intensity and/or frequency and location. The successfully answered leading question of E3 (Extreme Event Ecology) was how (physical) extreme events translate into (biological) extreme impacts. The assessed...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 199917
Last updated on: 2017-06-20
[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
[REPORT SUMMARY] Periodic Report Summary 2 - RELATIVISM (The Emergence of Relativism -- Historical, Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives)
Summary of the major achievements since the start of the project To begin with some numbers, since its start 2,5 years ago, members of the project have written about 30 papers or book chapters (of which mor than a dozen have already appeared in print); they have participated...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 201415
Last updated on: 2017-07-24
List retrieved on: 2017-08-02
