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PROs GRowing Europe through best practice SolutionS for Technology Transfer (PROGRESS-TT)
Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
Innovation is at the heart of Europe’s growth strategy. However, Europe lags behind its international competitors in converting investment in Public Research Organisation PRO research into commercial returns via innovation. The solution lies in improving the transfer of technology from PROs to industry but there are many barriers to effective technology transfer, including: Most Technology Transfe ...
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Food-based solutions for Optimal vitamin D Nutrition and health through the life cycle (ODIN)
Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,
Vitamin D deficiency has significant implications for human health and impacts on healthy growth and development and successful aging. Fundamental knowledge gaps are barriers to implementing a safe and effective public health strategy to prevent vitamin D deficiency and optimize status. ODIN will provide the evidence to prevent vitamin D deficiency in Europe and improve nutrition and public health ...
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VitaminD3-Omega3-Home Exercise- HeALTHy Ageing and Longevity Trial (DO-HEALTH)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Jun 30, 2017,
As the European population is ageing rapidly, the growing number of seniors with age-related chronic diseases poses a challenge on European societies and health care systems. Therapeutic interventions that are effective, affordable and well-tolerated in the prevention of chronic disease are urgently needed and will have an outstanding impact on public health as a whole. Among the most promising in ...
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MARie CuRIe AGEing Network (MARRIAGE)
Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,
"One of achievements of developed societies has been the remarkable extension of human lifespan. In the upcoming decades the number of Europeans with advanced age will increase dramatically. It is evident that age-associated diseases will become much more prevalent. This poses challenges for society but also opportunities for commercial enterprises that develop strategies to combat deleterious con ...
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Microwave, Ultrasonic and Plasma assisted Syntheses (MAPSYN)
Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,
The proposed project, MAPSYN, aims to bring selected innovative energy efficient chemical reaction processes, assisted with novel microwave, ultrasonic and plasma systems, up to the manufacturing scale. A pragmatic approach of using these selected alternative energy sources for end user selected reactions, will be individually studied for both microreactor and flow reactor systems (i.e. continuous ...
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Personalised nutrition: An integrated analysis of opportunities and challenges (Food4Me)
Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,
The present proposal sees the development of business and value creation models as central to the development of personalised nutrition and thus it is intended to engage in a series of interviews with key stakeholders, which will generate a number of scenarios to be considered by these stakeholders. Parallel to that we will run some focus groups with consumers and develop a tool to ascertain consu ...
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Bacterial Synthetic Minimal Genomes for Biotechnology (BASYNTHEC)
Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2013,
"BaSynthec will combine computational and experimental biology approaches with novel high-throughput methodologies to reduce and modify à la carte the chromosome of Bacillus subtilis, a genetically tractable bacterium and one of the key microbes used as a Cell Factory in biotechnology. Simpler B. subtilis strains with reduced energy consumption for self maintenance will be designed and constructed ...
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