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ID: QLK2-CT-2000-00837
Start date: 2000-11-01, End date: 2003-10-31
To monitor definite transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (Tees) in Europe, diagnostic confirmation and up-to-date typing of all human Tees is done via network of neuropath logical laboratories. To identify unrecognised disease forms possibly including variant Creutzfeldt-...
Programme: FP5-LIFE QUALITY
Record Number: 55004
Last updated on: 2005-04-12
[PROJECT] ENNAH - European Network on Noise And Health
ID: 226442
Start date: 2009-09-01, End date: 2012-01-31
This proposal puts forward plans to establish a research network of experts on noise and health in Europe. This network will establish future research directions and policy needs in Europe. The network will review the existing literature on environmental noise exposure and he...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 92035
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] GRADIENT - Tackling the Gradient: Applying Public Health Policies to Effectively Reduce Health Inequalities amongst Families and Children
ID: 223252
Start date: 2009-04-01, End date: 2012-03-31
Health inequalities are currently regarded as one of the most important public health challenges in the EU. There is however not sufficient knowledge of what actions are effective to reduce the gradient in health inequalities. 'Tackling the Gradient' aims to address this, to ...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 91238
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] POPART - Strategy for the preservation of plastic artefacts in museum collections
ID: 212218
Start date: 2008-10-01, End date: 2012-03-31
During the twentieth century artists have used plastics and synthetics to create important pieces that are recognized nowadays as masterpieces. Unfortunately some plastics are degrading faster than had been expected and their preservation constitutes a challenge. Their is a l...
Programme: FP7-ENVIRONMENT
Record Number: 88882
Last updated on: 2017-06-21
[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] SHARCO - Sharka Containment
ID: 204429
Start date: 2008-03-01, End date: 2012-08-31
SharCo is aimed at helping the EU face the accession of Member States known as endemic of sharka disease by providing the EU with tools such as marker-assisted selection, PPV resistant plant materials, guidelines, warning systems, decision-support system. On that purpose, the...
Programme: FP7-KBBE
Record Number: 88445
Last updated on: 2017-06-05
[REPORT SUMMARY] Mid-Term Report Summary - ELENA (Electrochemical LEctin and glycan biochips integrated with NAnostructures)
The aim of the project is to develop novel ultrasensitive methods for analysis of complex sugars (glycans) with the aid of nanotechnology. Importance of glycansGlycans are present on the surface of 70-80% of all proteins in our body. Glycans can form much more complex...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 178721
Last updated on: 2016-04-28
[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Report Summary - PROMARK (Genetic prostate cancer variants as biomarkers of disease progression)
Executive Summary:
The greatest unmet clinical needs in prostate cancer is the development of predictive methods or markers that can help distinguish between early stage tumours that will remain confined to the prostate and those which will progress to an invasive, aggressi...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 57716
Last updated on: 2013-08-14
List retrieved on: 2017-08-02
