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SPHINGONET was inspired by a common vision of its partners on the training of researchers in the field of sphingolipid homeostasis and body-wide sphingolipid signaling networks using innovative technological approaches. Dysregulation of sphingolipid balances contributes to a broad range of pathological processes, spanning neurodegeneration, asthma, autoimmune disease, insuline resistance, obesity ...

...alidation of new targets and in drug design, synthesis and discovery. The focus is on type 2 diabetes, obesity and immune diseases which cause serious disability and reduced life expectancy globally. Dualsystems and NUIM will be involved in the identification/validation of protein interactions involved in the pathway linking retinol binding protein and insulin, through which the former, when eleva ...