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[PROJECT] EPICE - Effective Perinatal Intensive Care in Europe: translating knowledge into evidence based practice
ID: 259882
Start date: 2011-01-01, End date: 2015-12-31
Context: Very preterm infants face high risks of mortality and long-term neuro-developmental impairment. Rates of mortality and morbidity vary by a factor greater than two between European regions. This project’s overriding aim is to improve these infants’ survival and long-t...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 97698
Last updated on: 2017-06-12
[PROJECT] BURULIVAC - Identification and development of vaccine candidates for Buruli Ulcer Disease
ID: 241500
Start date: 2010-03-01, End date: 2013-05-31
Buruli ulcer disease (BUD), caused by Mycobacterium ulcerans, is a neglected bacterial infection of the poor in remote rural areas, mostly affecting children. BUD, the third most common mycobacterial disease in immunocompetent humans after tuberculosis and leprosy, is most en...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 94059
Last updated on: 2017-06-12
[PROJECT] CHIBCHA - Genetic study of Common Hereditary Bowel Cancers in Hispania and the Americas
ID: 223678
Start date: 2009-06-01, End date: 2013-05-31
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is common in both sexes, has relatively poor outcome and has no major avoidable risk factor. Recent studies have shown that common inherited single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) can increase cancer risk. We have shown CRC risk to be associated with S...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 91245
Last updated on: 2017-06-05
[PROJECT] O-PTM-BIOMARKERS - Discovery of novel cancer serum biomarkers based on aberrant post translational modifications of O-glycoproteins (O-PTM-Biomarkers) and their application to early detection of cancer
ID: 201381
Start date: 2008-01-01, End date: 2011-03-31
Early detection accomplished through an efficient screening programme remains the most promising approach to improve the long-term survival of cancer patients. Therefore there is a pressing need for the development of biomarkers, which detect the early changes for cancers whe...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 88179
Last updated on: 2017-05-30
[PROJECT] NAD - NANOPARTICLES FOR THERAPY AND DIAGNOSIS OF ALZHEIMER DISEASE
ID: 212043
Start date: 2008-09-01, End date: 2013-08-31
The search for effective therapies and early detection strategies for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), the major cause of dementia in Europe, is imperative. It is known that β-amyloid (Aβ) peptide plays a central role in neurodegeneration. In AD brain, Aβ is released in a soluble fo...
Programme: FP7-NMP
Record Number: 89306
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] E-RARE-2 - ERA-Net on Rare Diseases
ID: 266608
Start date: 2010-10-01, End date: 2014-11-30
Rare diseases represent an important public-health issue, affecting 26-30 million persons across Europe, and a major challenge for research. The fragmentation of resources and knowledge for the 6000-8000 rare diseases and the lack of treatment for the majority of them necessi...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 97885
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] ODHIN - Optimizing delivery of health care interventions
ID: 259268
Start date: 2011-01-01, End date: 2014-12-31
ODHIN is a Europe wide project involving research institutions from nine European countries that will help to optimize the delivery of health care interventions by understanding how better to translate the results of clinical research into every day practice. ODHIN will use t...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 97618
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] INTELLI-SHM - INTELLIGENT STRESS HEALTH MONITORING
ID: 255816
Start date: 2009-12-01, End date: 2011-05-31
The project IntelliSHM will address the following topics: Design of an integrated SHM system, with reduced number of sensors, embedded solutions, Optimum location of sensors, Sensor fault detection by multi-scale methods, Improved diagnostic and prognostic tools. Also this pr...
Programme: FP7-JTI
Record Number: 98035
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] HIVERA - Harmonizing, Integrating and Vitalizing European Research on hiv/Aids
ID: 249697
Start date: 2010-05-01, End date: 2015-04-30
HIV infection is a major worldwide epidemic threatening public health in all affected countries. Although a wide range of financial support has been successfully dedicated to HIV through national and/or EC-funded programmes, there is still little cooperation between national ...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 95954
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
[PROJECT] FOODRISC - Food Risk Communication. Perceptions and communication of food risks/benefits across Europe: development of effective communication strategies
ID: 245124
Start date: 2010-06-01, End date: 2013-10-31
FoodRisC will characterise key configurations of food risk/benefit relationships and the consequent implications for risk communicators, make recommendations about the unique potential of new social media (e.g. social networks and blogging) and provide a systematic understand...
Programme: FP7-KBBE
Record Number: 94554
Last updated on: 2017-05-29
List retrieved on: 2017-07-17
