Objective
The aim of this project is to ensure that tissues and fluid samples of known BSE disease status and quality are available to European scientists for research purposes. Specifically this Concerted Action will underpin for three years the research programme proposed by the Commission to Council and Parliament and published as a call for proposals in the Official Journal of 17 December 1996. The project has eight specific objectives:
1. To identify the requirements for BSE samples originating from
(a) natural (field) cases of BSE and
(b) from experimental inoculations.
2. To plan and implement a programme of sample production and collection to meet any shortfall.
3. To plan and implement a programme of sample standardisation where appropriate (eg titration of infectivity by bioassay).
4. To develop and agree protocols for the collection and storage of samples;
5. To develop and maintain a computerised database of all archived samples.
6. To develop and agree protocols and rules covering the supply of samples to partners. This will ensure:
(a) appropriate health and safety requirements in receiving laboratories;
(b) agreement by all receiving laboratories to use the samples only for the purpose for which they have been requested.
7. To carry out a programme of short training courses and exchange of personnel to improve scientific cohesion between partners and to exchange expertise between stronger and weaker groups in the whole process of sample collection and preparation.
8. To identify whether there is requirement for further concertation to ensure the availability of materials for research on other tses (most notably scrapie). The concerted action will achieve these objectives through the network of European research workers which will form the partnership. A database of all archived material will be made available to all partners and where any shortfall in quantity or quality is identified, this concerted action will provide for any necessary supplementary sample collection or preparation.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
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Topic(s)
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Coordinator
KT15 3NB New Ham, Surrey
United Kingdom
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