Objective "Aim of the CAFFEIN network is to provide 10 early stage researchers (ESRs) and 2 exprerienced researchers (ERs) with excellent training in an industry relevant area of cancer research, complementary skills required for pharmaceutical industry, and knowledge in setting up biomedical start-up companies. To this end, the network comprises two full industrial partners: the established pharmaceutical company Medimmune, a global leader in immunopharmaceuticals, and the small biotech company Gimmune, which used breakthrough results in nanotechnology to establish a new enterprise.The research focus of CAFFEIN, which stands for Cancer Associated Fibroblasts (CAF) Function in Tumor Expansion and Invasion, is to understand the mechanisms, how fibroblastoid cells support tumor progression and metastasis formation. CAF biology is therefore rather complex, but the research groups of the CAFFEIN network cover many different aspects of it, thus having a critical mass to provide relevant training in this area.Training in complementary skills important for work in the pharmaceutical industry is provided by the industrial partner MedImmune, where communication with management, industrial project planning, IPR, etc. will be taught.Entrepreneurial skills, business plans, funding by venture capitalists, and patentability of research findings are highlights of the training provided by the industrial partner Gimmune. All this training is transmitted to the ESRs/ERs by networkwide events, secondments and tight research collaboration.Taken together, the CAFFEIN research training network combines the acquisition of excellent scientific knowledge in an area highly attractive for pharmaceutical industry with special education in relevant complementary skills that increase employment chances of the trained researchers in industry and that encourage them to translate their scientific results into products, thus improving health and economic welfare of European citizens." Fields of science social scienceseducational sciencesspecial educationmedical and health sciencesbasic medicinepharmacology and pharmacypharmaceutical drugsengineering and technologynanotechnologymedical and health sciencesclinical medicineoncologysocial scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN - Marie-Curie Action: "Initial Training Networks" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-2012-ITN See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-ITN - Networks for Initial Training (ITN) Coordinator KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET Address Norregade 10 1165 Kobenhavn Denmark See on map Region Danmark Hovedstaden Byen København Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Tine Mathiesen (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 612 571,60 Participants (10) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all MEDIMMUNE LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 497 460,47 Address Milstein building granta park CB21 6GH Cambridge See on map Region East of England East Anglia Cambridgeshire CC Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Bruno Calo Fernández (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET Sweden EU contribution € 263 225,16 Address Nobels vag 5 17177 Stockholm See on map Region Östra Sverige Stockholm Stockholms län Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Maria Von Witting (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window CENTRO DE NEUROCIENCIAS E BIOLOGIACELULAR ASSOCIACAO Portugal EU contribution € 209 781,00 Address Universidade de coimbra largo marques de pombal 3004 517 Coimbra See on map Region Continente Centro (PT) Região de Coimbra Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Silvia Sousa (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITETET I BERGEN Norway EU contribution € 282 471,40 Address Museplassen 1 5020 Bergen See on map Region Norge Vestlandet Vestland Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Liv-Grethe Gudmundsen (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN Participation ended Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Theodor w adorno platz 1 60323 Frankfurt am main See on map Region Hessen Darmstadt Frankfurt am Main, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Mareike Schmitt (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window OULUN YLIOPISTO Finland EU contribution € 264 497,62 Address Pentti kaiteran katu 1 90014 Oulu See on map Region Manner-Suomi Pohjois- ja Itä-Suomi Pohjois-Pohjanmaa Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Arto Eljander (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITEIT GENT Belgium EU contribution € 233 640,00 Address Sint pietersnieuwstraat 25 9000 Gent See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen Arr. Gent Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Nathalie Vandepitte (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window TURUN YLIOPISTO Finland EU contribution € 264 497,62 Address Yliopistonmaki 20014 Turku See on map Region Manner-Suomi Etelä-Suomi Varsinais-Suomi Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Mari Riipinen (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE Belgium EU contribution € 233 640,00 Address Place du 20 aout 7 4000 Liege See on map Region Région wallonne Prov. Liège Arr. Liège Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Isabelle Halleux (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Germany EU contribution € 450 737,75 Address Schlossplatz 2 48149 Muenster See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Münster Münster, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Ingo Niendorf (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window
