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[REPORT SUMMARY] Final Report Summary - EUROCANPLATFORM (A European Platform for Translational Cancer Research)
The EurocanPlatform brought together 28 European cancer Institutions and organisations to work in partnership to structure translational research. The centres shared infrastructures, expertise and collaborated on projects to innovate in cancer research. The overarching aim of...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 201649
Last updated on: 2017-07-25
[REPORT SUMMARY] Periodic Report Summary 4 - RATHER (Rational Therapy for Breast Cancer: Individualized Treatment for Difficult-to-Treat Breast Cancer Subtypes)
Project Context and Objectives: 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 signalling components. The RATHER consortium are...
Programme: FP7-HEALTH
Record Number: 201776
Last updated on: 2017-07-25
Universal coverage of health care with quality content and continuity of care is essential for countries to meet the Sustainable Development Goals of ending preventable maternal and child deaths by 2030. Without seamless, sustainable, and secure data and information exchanges...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 201452
Last updated on: 2017-07-24
Severe birth asphyxia (BA) is a life-threatening condition of the newborn, with an annual death rate of a million neonates globally. It is typically caused by compromised umbilical/placental functions during complicated delivery which leads to a fall in the oxygen level and...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 201451
Last updated on: 2017-07-24
As a result of the rapidly growing human population, mankind faces the enormous challenge to increase agricultural productivity while decreasing our ecological footprint in a changing climate. Plants are continuously threatened by a multitude of pathogens and pests, resulting...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 201450
Last updated on: 2017-07-24
[REPORT SUMMARY] Periodic Report Summary 2 - GLYCOTREAT (Novel vaccine generation for the treatment of cancer. A glyco-nanomedial approach instructing T cells)
The Glycotreat project aims to develop new glycan based nanomedicines to target to DC for the induction of powerful T-cell responses to treat cancer. In this project we focus on two types of cancer: one induced by viruses, and the other with a focus on self-antigen melanoma...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 201447
Last updated on: 2017-07-24
Executive Summary The main objective of the OMVac project is to apply Synthetic Biology to create a new bacterial species, Vaccinobacter, devoted to the production of multivalent, highly effective vaccines against infectious diseases and cancer. The project is organized in...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 201444
Last updated on: 2017-07-24
[REPORT SUMMARY] Periodic Report Summary 2 - HIV LTR G-4 (G-quadruplexes in the HIV-1 genome: novel targets for the development of selective antiviral drugs)
Screening In the first 30 months of the project, we have found and developed four small molecules that display anti-HIV-1 activity: one G-quadruplex (G4) ligand that inhibits HIV-1 with effective concentration (EC50) in the low micromolar range. To improve selectivity we have...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 201441
Last updated on: 2017-07-24
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the molecule in charge to transport the chemical energy of the cell and maintain cellular metabolism. When a tissue is damaged, its cells release their intracellular content, and when ATP reaches high extracellular concentration, it signals to...
Programme: FP7-IDEAS-ERC
Record Number: 201432
Last updated on: 2017-07-24
[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
