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Microbubble driven multimodal imaging and theranostics for gliomas (THERAGLIO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Microbubbles (MBs) are used as contrast agent in ultrasound (US) imaging for a variety of tumours while little has been done for glioblastomas, a rare cancer. Intraoperative Contrast-Enhanced US-imaging (CEUS) using lipidic MBs hold promises in increasing extent of resection of such tumors. Furthermore, MBs gained recently interest as a delivery system for drugs. We will develop a new generation o ...
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Development and Epilepsy - Strategies for Innovative Research to improve diagnosis, prevention and treatment in children with difficult to treat Epilepsy (DESIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

DESIRE will focus on epileptogenic developmental disorders EDD, i.e. early onset epilepsies whose origin is closely related to developmental brain processes. A major cause of EDD are malformations of cortical development (MCD), either macroscopic or subtle. EDD are often manifested as epileptic encephalopathies (EE), i.e. conditions in which epileptic activity itself may contribute to severe cogni ...
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Development of an integrated SPECT/MRI system for enhanced stratification of brain tumour patients prior to patient-specific radio-chemo therapy and early assessment of treatment efficacy (INSERT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

"The purpose of the project INSERT is to provide clinically relevant stratification and improved personalized radio-chemo therapy for brain tumour patients using a specifically developed multi-modality imaging tool. The system will also be used for early assessment of treatment efficacy. The initial focus will be on patients with glioma but there is future potential to target a range of tumours in ...
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PROBING THE ROLE OF SODIUM CHANNELS IN PAINFUL NEUROPATHIES (PROPANE STUDY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Neuropathic pain is a frequent feature of peripheral neuropathy adversely impacting patients’ quality of life and increasing health care costs. Not all individuals with neuropathy develop pain and it is not possible to predict who is more or less susceptible among those with similar risk exposure. Inability to identify high-risk individuals and drug-responder patients and lack of drugs acting on t ...
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Implant Disposable Antibacterial Coating (I.D.A.C.): a Novel Approach to Implant-Related Infections in Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (I.D.A.C.)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

With a share of 38%, orthopaedic and traumatology (O&T) are the worldwide leading markets of implanted biomaterials, involving millions of new patients each year at an increasing trend. Infection related to implanted medical devices is directly related to bacterial capability to establish multilayered, highly structured biofilms on artificial surfaces. Bacterial infections due to implanted biomate ...
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NeuGRID for you: expansion of NeuGRID services and outreach to new user communities (N4U)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

Unprecedented growth in the accessibility of imaging data of persons with brain diseases has led to the development of computational infrastructures offering scientists access to image databases and e-Science services. FP7 neuGRID is the leading e-Infrastructure where neuroscientists can find core services and resources for brain image analysis. "neuGRID for Users" (N4U) will provide an e-Science ...
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Active Constraints Technologies for Ill-defined or Volatile Environments (ACTIVE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Description Active Constraints Technologies in Neurosurgery for Ill-defined or Volatile Environments The ACTIVE project exploits ICT and other engineering methods and technologies for the design and development of an integrated redundant robotic platform for neurosurgery. A light and agile redunda ...
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A Roadmap for Mental Health Research in Europe (ROAMER)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

"On the regional level, Europe has one of the highest levels of resources for mental health care. Despite this, the high burden and impact of mental disorders in Europe is expected to rise. “ROAdmap for Mental health Research” (ROAMER) is designed to develop a comprehensive, consensus-based roadmap to promote and integrate mental health and well-beingresearch in Europe. Research advances and innov ...
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Gas Absorption Heat Pump solution for existing residential buildings (HEAT4U)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

Residential buildings represent 60% of the building stock and the area where most of the potential to drastically reduce energy use and CO2 emissions lies. New directives push for deep retrofitting efforts, in order to achieve energy efficiency and RES adoption targets for 2020 and beyond. These require acting both on envelope and on energy use systems, mainly heating and DHW equipment that repres ...
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Microelectronic Single-Photon 3D Imaging Arrays\nfor low-light high-speed Safety and Security Applications (MiSPIA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Description 3D cameras, based on the measurement of the Time-of-Flight of single photons by means of Single-Photon Avalanche Diode imagers, for automotive safety driving and security surveillance application MiSPIA will develop beyond state-of-the-art photonics technology for array imagers of smar ...
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Psychosocial fActors Relevant to BrAin DISorders in Europe (PARADISE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

The overall prevalence of brain disorders – both neurological and psychiatric – is very high in Europe. Although it is well known that the burden and costs of these disorders are high, there is evidence that the overall, personal, social and economic costs of brain disorders have been underestimated because of the lack of valid and reliable information regarding the full range of psychosocial diff ...
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Bench-to-beside Integrated approach to familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: to the HEART of the disease (Big-Heart)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2013,

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), characterised by left ventricular hypertrophy and myocyte disarray, is by far the most common cardiac single gene disorder. With a prevalence of 1:500, HCM is predicted to affect approximately one million people within the EU. HCM represents an important clinical problem, being the principal cause of sudden death in young adults, and a valuable opportunity to use ...
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Restorative Plasticity At Corticostriatal Excitatory Synapses (REPLACES)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"Long-lasting, activity-dependent synaptic changes are thought to underlie the ability of the brain to translate experiences into memories and seem to represent the cellular model underlying learning and memory processes. Alteration of brain plasticity may lead to the motor and cognitive disturbances observed in neurodegenerative diseases. Therapeutic approaches targeting synaptic plasticity could ...
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MUltimodal Neuroprostesis for Daily Upper limb Support (MUNDUS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

MUNDUS is an assistive framework for recovering direct interaction capability of severely motor impaired people based on arm reaching and hand function. Most of the solutions provided by Assistive Technology for supporting independent life of severely impaired people completely substitute the natural interaction with the world, reducing their acceptance. Human dignity and self-esteem are more pres ...
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COURAGE in Europe - COllaborative Research on AGEing in Europe (COURAGE IN EUROPE)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

...countries, measures of health and health-related outcomes for an ageing population. These measures will be grounded in the WHO’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). The ICF offers the only scientifically valid framework for evidence-based measurement of non-fatal health outcomes. We also propose to disentangle the confusion found in current ageing studies betw ...
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Evaluation of Integrated Cardiac Imaging for the Detection and Characterization of Ischemic Heart Disease (EVINCI-study)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

The main purpose of the EVINCI-study is to test the impact of combined “anatomo-functional” non invasive cardiac imaging for detection and characterization of Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD). The EVINCI-study is a prospective clinical European multicenter trial performed in a cohort of 700 patients with suspected IHD. Patients with intermediate pre-test probability will undergo clinical and biohumora ...
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Non-invasive imaging of brain function and disease by pulsed near infrared light (nEUROPt)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The proposal aims at the development and clinical validation of advanced non-invasive optical methodologies for in-vivo diagnosis, monitoring, and prognosis of major neurological diseases (stroke, epilepsy, ischemia), based on diffuse optical imaging by pulsed near infrared light. Established diagnostic imaging modalities (e.g. X-ray Computed Tomography, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Positron Emissi ...
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Cell permeable peptides as drug delivery system: a way towards innovative therapeutic strategies for neurodegeneration (cPADS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

Peptides and small molecules able to modulate protein-protein interaction as well as intracellular pathways leading to neurodegeneration and cell death hold a great potential as innovative therapeutic strategies with which to probe and manipulate biological pathways. The need to deliver these biologically active agents into cells has encouraged to develop various transducing vectors. In this view ...
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Parallel fluorescence spectroscopy tools for micro and nano-analytical applications down to single biomolecules (PARAFLUO)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2011,

"Analytical methods based on fluorescence measurements are widely employed for investigating biological process at cellular level. A modern technique is fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM), where a map is obtained of the fluorescent emission lifetime versus position in a cell. The objective of project PARAFLUO is an innovative instrumentation system that will enhance and extend the use ...
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A GRID-BASED e-INFRASTRUCTURE FOR DATA ARCHIVING/COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTATIONALLY INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS IN THE MEDICAL SCIENCES (neuGRID)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

Aim of this proposal is to deploy e-Infrastructures (EC-funded MammoGrid and AddNeuroMed's NeuBase) to enable the European neuroscience community to carry out research required for the pressing study of degenerative brain diseases to build a new user-friendly Grid-based research e-Infrastructure (neuGRID), where the collection/archiving of large amounts of imaging data is paired with computational ...
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ROBot and SENSors INtegration as Guidance FOR Enhanced Computer Assisted Surgery and Therapy (ROBOCAST)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

The ROBOCAST project aims to develop ICT scientific methods and technologies which focus on robot assisted keyhole neurosurgery. A modular system, allowing a reduction of the footprint, will be developed with two robots and one active bio-mimetic probe, able to cooperate among themselves in a biomimetic sensory-motor integrated framework. A gross positioning 3-axes robot will support a miniature p ...
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COntinuous MOnitoring of Medication Overuse Headache in Europe and Latin America: development and STAndardization of an Alert and decision support System (COMOESTAS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2010,

Appropriate delivery of quality healthcare requires constant monitoring of the patient during follow up, particularly in the presence of chronic diseases. This approach can be further improved if leading edge tools supporting diagnosis, as well as prediction, identification and monitoring of adverse events are available. COMOESTAS aims to develop an innovative ICT system that allows patients with ...
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