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Clinical evaluation of carbons of controlled porosity as a new therapeutic for the treatment of liver cirrhosis and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. (CARBALIVE)
Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,
Chronic liver disease affects about 29-million Europeans accounting for about 170,000 deaths at a cost of around €15.8bn. This chronic non-communicable disease is increasing at an alarming rate due to increasing European obesity, alcohol use and ageing. The three main causes of the disease; alcohol, fatty liver and viral hepatitis are amenable to prevention and treatment. Gut-derived endotoxins an ...
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A training network for the chemical site-selective modification of proteins: Preparation of the next-generation of therapeutic chemically-defined protein conjugates (ProteinConjugates)
Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2019,
ProteinConjugates is an inter- and multi-disciplinary network for the education of talented young scientists who will learn how to rationally design and construct the next generation of chemically-defined and innovative protein drug-conjugates for the targeted treatment of serious conditions such as cancer or rheumatoid arthritis. A complementary interaction between academy and pharmaceutical indu ...
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Families and food poverty in three European Countries in an Age of Austerity (FFP)
Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,
Food poverty in the global North is emerging as an urgent social and moral concern, increasingly recognized as a central issue in the field of health inequalities in industrialized countries. With widening income disparity in Austerity Europe and ‘the end of cheap food’, these effects are being exacerbated. International media report an increase in the number of children arriving at school hungry, ...
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European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network - Integrating Activity (ECRIN-IA)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2017,
ECRIN is a distributed ESFRI-roadmap pan-European infrastructure designed to support multinational clinical research, making Europe a single area for clinical studies, taking advantage of its population size to access patients. Servicing multinational trials started during its preparatory phase, and it now applies for an ERIC status by 2011. The ERIC budget will be restricted to core activities re ...
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Dengue research Framework for Resisting Epidemics in Europe (DENFREE)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2016,
"WHO estimates that one of the main consequences of global warming will be an increased burden of vector-borne diseases. Among these, dengue appears to be particularly problematic, with tens of millions of cases of dengue fever estimated to occur annually, including up to 500,000 cases of the life-threatening dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome. In recent years, the global burden of den ...
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Development, integration and dissemination of animal-based welfare indicators, including pain, in commercially important husbandry species, with special emphasis on small ruminants, equidae & turkeys (WELFARE INDICATORS)
Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2015,
Animal welfare is one of the topics that has consistently ranked on the top of items brought to the attention of governmental organizations and politicians across European countries. Concerns about animal welfare among European citizens are founded in well thought expectations from governments, industry and other stakeholders. The tremendous public scrutiny on animal welfare related issues put exc ...
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TEchnologies innovantes pour quantifier et qualifier le mode de vie pour des services de Médecine PersonnalISée (TEMIS)
Start date: Mar 31, 2013, End date: Dec 30, 2014,
Le projet TEMIS propose une recherche innovante dans le champ médicotechnique, à travers le transfert de technologie du secteur des TIC appliqué au domaine médical.La recherche médicale a démontré que le mode de vie a un impact sur de nombreuses pathologies, en particulier pour les maladies chroniques. À cet égard, TEMIS étudiera des indicateurs de santé pouvant ensuite être utilisés pour une méde ...
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Evaluating and controlling the risk of African swine fever in the EU (ASFRISK)
Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,
"African swine fever (ASF) in EU member states is currently confined to Italy (Sardinia), it was recently introduced to Caucasian regions and it is highly prevalent in sub-Saharan African countries. In both the EC and Africa changes in the epidemiology of the disease have recently been observed, related to newly emerging strains of ASFV, emphasising the serious threat this disease represents to th ...
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"Future Crops for Food, Feed, Fiber and Fuel" (4F CROPS)
Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Nov 30, 2010,
"As different sectors – food, feed, fiber, and fuels – compete for land, the yielding potential of the future non-food crops has to be as efficient as possible in order to minimize the competition for land. The main objective of the proposed 4F CROPS is to survey and analyse all the parameters that will play an important role in successful non-food cropping systems in the agriculture of EU27 along ...
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Improving levels of competence in medical training : A training programme for medical students' pre-registration year. This project started in 2000 and lasted 30 months.
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