Objective
The transplantation of cells, tissues & organs is a rapidly evolving field of scientific knowledge & medical practice worldwide. Clinical applications include haemopoietic malignancies, immuno-deficiencies & organ failure. Transplantation also holds strong therapeutic potential for many other chronic degenerative diseases. The extreme genetic diversity of the European populations (donors/recipients), the specificities of Europe's national Public Health systems, & the fact that the legal, ethical & societal issues posed by basic & clinical research/practice in this field vary throughout Europe, all confer unique characteristics to the practice of transplantation biology/medicine in Europe. Transplantation biology/medicine is a complex, integrated field, which requires a multidisciplinary approach to the genetics, & the molecular/cellular immune mechanisms controling graft acceptance & optimal longterm function.
A full understanding of the immunogenetics & histocompatibility governing alloreactivity is a prerequisite for optimal matching of donors & recipients. Haemopoietic & organ transplantation, as well as the fields of cancer, auto-immune & inflammatory diseases, & allergy will benefit from innovative immuno-intervention (tolerance induction, immune deviation & suppression, specific vaccination & immuno-modulation) solidly founded on basic concepts & experimental research. Despite excellent European basic research & transplant centres, to date no European forum for high-level training exists in this field. This proposal concerns the creation of a multidisciplinary forum for basic & clinical scientists working in the academic & industrial settings, at the junior & senior levels. It also intends to promote reflection, at the European level, on the ethical, legal, societal & public health questions, which are specific to transplantation in Europe. This project should catalyze trans-European scientific cooperation & increase the level of European excellence in this field. It should lead to safer selection & optimal matching of donor & recipient, & to the development & validation of new therapeutic perspectives able to impact on cancer immunotherapy & immuno-intervention in autoimmunity & allergy. It has already drawn the pledged support of pharmaceutical & biotechnological partners.
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.
- medical and health sciences health sciences public health
- medical and health sciences health sciences inflammatory diseases
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine allergology
- medical and health sciences basic medicine immunology immunotherapy
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine transplantation
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Coordinator
France
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