Objective
Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementia are irreversible, degenerative disorders of the brain characterised by progressive cognitive decline, the loss of personality and finally death. Because of the impact on individuals and due to the enormous costs for health care and thus for society, these disorders present a major health problem to the EU. Treatment that can prevent, arrest and reverse degeneration and death of neurons is therefore urgently required. Prerequisite is the development of diagnostic tools that identify patients at an early pre-symptomatic stage. A consortium of 21 of the most experienced AD laboratories from Europe and beyond will carry out a research project integrating data from studies with tissue cultures and genetically modified animals into a clinical investigation of demented patients. A broad array of bio-technological methods will be used. Results of these studies will lead to diagnostic screening strategies combining genetic, path physiological and biomarker information.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
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Call for proposal
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80336 MUENCHEN
Germany