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[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] STOPENTERICS - Vaccination against Shigella and ETEC: novel antigens, novel approaches
ID: 261472
Start date: 2010-11-01, End date: 2017-12-31
To contribute to the development of vaccines against Shigella and ETEC for children of the developing world, STOPENTERICS will provide novel solutions by imposing a two-fold paradigm switch: (i) to break the dogma of serotype-specificity by inducing a cross-protective immunit...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 97173
Last updated on: 2017-07-02
[PROJECT] AMPHORA - Alcohol Measures for Public Health Research Alliance (AMPHORA)
ID: 223059
Start date: 2009-01-01, End date: 2012-12-31
AMPHORA is a Europe wide project involving researches and research institutions from 14 European countries, and counterparts and organizations from all 27 Member States, that will provide new scientific evidence for the best public health measures to reduce the harm done by a...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 92876
Last updated on: 2017-06-28
[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] HEMIBIO - HEPATIC MICROFLUIDIC BIOREACTOR
ID: 266777
Start date: 2011-01-01, End date: 2015-12-31
The goal of HeMiBio is to develop a hepatic microfluidic bioreactor from human iPSC-derived hepatocytes, hepatic sinusoidal endothelial cells (HSEC) and stellate cells (HSC), suitable for inclusion in a repeated dose toxicity testing strategy of pharmaceuticals/cosmetic ingre...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 105662
Last updated on: 2017-06-12
[PROJECT] NANOIMPACTNET - European Network on the Health and Environmental Impact of Nanomaterials
ID: 218539
Start date: 2008-04-01, End date: 2012-03-31
Recent technological advances allow the targeted production of objects and materials in the nanoscale (smaller than 100 nm). Nanomaterials have chemical, physical and bioactive characteristics, which are different from those of larger entities of the same materials. Nanoparti...
Programme: FP7-NMP
Record Number: 86639
Last updated on: 2017-05-30
[PROJECT] CHD PLATFORM - Establishment of a European parent- and patient-oriented information and communication platform on Congenital Heart Defects
ID: 201676
Start date: 2008-02-01, End date: 2010-01-31
With this support action we intend the establishment of a European parent- and patient-oriented, web-based information and communication platform that helps to build up a large European network on congenital heart defects (CHD PLATFORM). The aim of this platform is to vertica...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 87569
Last updated on: 2017-05-30
[PROJECT] INTEGRIS - “Improved methodology for data collection on accidents and disabilities – Integration of European Injury Statistics”
ID: 201524
Start date: 2008-05-01, End date: 2011-04-30
The implementation of a prevention-oriented injury surveillance in the EU is a major demand towards the Member States in the recent “EC Council Recommendations on the prevention of injury and the promotion of safety”. Needed in particular are valid and reliable indicators for...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 88187
Last updated on: 2017-05-30
[PROJECT] LUPA - Unravelling the molecular basis of common complex human disorders using the dog as a model system
ID: 201370
Start date: 2008-01-01, End date: 2012-06-30
Despite major efforts, identifying susceptibility genes for common human diseases - cancer, cardiovascular, inflammatory and neurological disorders - is difficult due to the complexity of the underlying causes. The dog population is composed of ~ 400 purebred breeds; each one...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 87971
Last updated on: 2017-05-30
[PROJECT] NANOTEST - Development of methodology for alternative testing strategies for the assessment of the toxicological profile of nanoparticles used in medical diagnostics
ID: 201335
Start date: 2008-04-01, End date: 2012-03-31
Nanoparticles (NP) have unique, potentially beneficial properties, but their possible impact on human health has not been adequately assessed. The main goal of this proposal is to develop alternative high-throughput testing strategies using in vitro and in silico methods to a...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 86691
Last updated on: 2017-05-30
List retrieved on: 2017-07-17
