Project description
A multidisciplinary global training network is focusing on new treatments for eye disease
Visual information helps us to perform daily tasks, stay out of harm's way and recognise the face of an old friend in a crowd. The posterior segment of the eye is the region responsible for turning impinging light into electrical signals and is also the site of debilitating diseases like macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. ORBITAL has formed a consortium of 22 academic, clinical and industrial partners to train a new cohort of scientists in cross-disciplinary fields ranging from materials science to drug discovery. Cross-fertilisation should plant the seeds for advanced treatments of posterior segment ocular disease that accounts for more than half of the ocular conditions.
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MSCA-ITN-ETN - European Training NetworksCoordinator
X91 K0EK Waterford
Ireland
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Participants (10)
15782 Santiago De Compostela
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BT7 1NN Belfast
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1049 001 Lisboa
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101 Reykjavik
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B15 2TT Birmingham
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28040 Madrid
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70211 Kuopio
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10144 Torino
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4 Dublin
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28002 Madrid
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Partners (11)
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Lisboa
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D02 Dublin
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Kilkenny
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08062 Mullica Hill
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43100 Parma
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N2L 3G1 Waterloo
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32611 5500 Gainesville
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08028-1700 Glassboro
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15782 Santiago De Compostela
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B15 2SQ Birmingham
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