Parkinsonism and parkinson's disease: interactions between environmental exposures and genetic factors

Project Information

GEOPARKINSON

Grant agreement ID: QLK4-CT-1999-01133

Project closed

Start date 1 February 2000

End date 30 November 2004

Funded under

• Specific Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Quality of life and management of living resources", 1998-2002

Total cost € 1 429 449,00

EU contribution € 1 429 449,00

Coordinated by

University of Aberdeen
United Kingdom

Objective

Parkinsonism (PD) is a major cause of disability in Europe. Evidence suggests that environmental factors, particularly exposure to commonly used chemicals, acting on susceptible individuals increase the risk of this disease.

Fields of science

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• medical and health sciences › basic medicine › neurology › parkinson

Programme(s)

• FP5-LIFE QUALITY - Specific Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Quality of life and management of living resources", 1998-2002

Topic(s)

• 1.1.1.-4. - Key action Environment and Health

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

University of Aberdeen

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Fraser Noble Building King's College ; AB9 2UE Aberdeen ; United Kingdom
• Total cost: No data

Participants (4)

LINKOEPING UNIVERSITY

Sweden

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Valla-Omradet, Hus Orgo ; 581 85 LINKOEPING
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PARMA

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: VIA UNIVERSITA 12 ; 43100 PARMA
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL COLENTINA OF BUCHAREST

Romania

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Sos Stefan Cel Mare Nr. 21 ; 7202 BUCHAREST
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITY OF MALTA

Malta

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Room 221, European Unit, University of Malta, Tal- ; MSD06 MSIDA
• Total cost: No data