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The Open Pharmacological Concepts Triple Store (OPEN PHACTS)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

Drug discovery is data-hungry and all major pharmaceutical companies maintain extensive in-house instances of public data alongside internal. Analysis and hypothesis generation for drug-discovery projects requires assembly, overlay and comparison of data from many sources, requiring shared identifiers and common semantics. Expression profiles need to be overlaid with gene or pathway identifiers an ...
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The Integrated Neurobiology of Food Intake, Addiction and Stress (NEUROFAST)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

NeuroFAST is a multidisciplinary project, involving ten teams from seven countries, to explore the neurobiology of addiction and eating behaviour and the complex socio-psychological forces that can lead to its dysregulation. These forces include dietary components (including highly palatable foods and alcohol), some of which may have addictive properties, but also cultural and social pressures, ev ...
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European Nuclear Science and Applications Research (ENSAR)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

ENSAR is the Integrating Activity of Nuclear Scientists from almost all European countries performing research in three of the major subfields of Nuclear Physics: Nuclear Structure, Nuclear Astrophysics and Applications of Nuclear Science. It proposes an optimised ensemble of Networking (NAs), Transnational Access and Joint Research Activities (JRAs), which will ensure qualitative and quantitative ...
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Sharing capacity across Europe in high-throughput sequencing technology to explore genetic variation in health and disease (GEUVADIS)

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

"High-throughput next-generation DNA sequencing technologies allow investigators to sequence entire human genomes at an affordable price and within a short time frame. The correct interpretation, storage, and dissemination of the large amount of produced genomics data generate major challenges. Tackling these challenges requires extensive exchange of data, information and knowledge between medical ...
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Innovation in Science Education - Turning Kids on to Science (KidsINNscience)

Start date: Nov 1, 2009, End date: Jul 31, 2013,

KidsINNscience will identify and promote innovative approaches for teaching and learning science, adapt and test them for implementation in mainstream schools and develop innovation strategies in all participating countries. The consortium proposes a collaborative project (specific international cooperation action (SICA)) for experts who work with and on new methods for science education. The over ...
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Genetic study of Common Hereditary Bowel Cancers in Hispania and the Americas (CHIBCHA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2009, End date: May 31, 2013,

"Colorectal cancer (CRC) is common in both sexes, has relatively poor outcome and has no major avoidable risk factor. Recent studies have shown that common inherited single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) can increase cancer risk. We have shown CRC risk to be associated with SNPs on chromosomes 8q24.21, 15q14 and 8q21. These variants account for
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Origins and spread of agriculture in the south-western Mediterranean region (AGRIWESTMED)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"This project focuses on one of the most fascinating events of the long history of the human species: the origins and spread of agriculture. Research over the past 40 years has provided an invaluable dataset on crop domestication and the spread of agriculture into Europe. However, despite the enormous advances in research there are important areas that remain almost unexplored, some of immense int ...
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METAL CATALYZED STRATEGIES FOR C-H BOND ACTIVATION AND CYCLOADDITION. SYNTHETIC APPLICATIONS AND DISCOVERY OF NON CONVETIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS (MCCYC)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"Metal catalyzed C-H bond functionalization reactions is an area of organic synthesis having an exponential development and a great acceptation in the chemist community because meets the ideals of green chemistry. In this proposal we present a project research based on the development of new strategies of C-H bond activation/cycloaddition that leads to the formation of functionalized heterocycles. ...
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Engineering Anaerobic Mixed Microbial Communities for Biofuels Production (EnAnaMMic-BioF)

Start date: Jan 5, 2010, End date: Jan 4, 2013,

A European reintegration grant is proposed to conduct a 3-year research project aiming at the development of sustainable processes for the conversion of carbohydrate rich feedstock into valuable biofuels (like hydrogen, methane, ethanol, butanol) using microorganisms in anaerobic reactors with the following two main objectives: (i) The development of trustable quantitative models to describe and c ...
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Search for new therapeutic agents against complicated obesity by reprofiling existing drugs (REPROBESITY)

Start date: Dec 1, 2008, End date: May 31, 2012,

"Obesity is one of the most serious and fast-growing health problem in the European Union, and a leading cause of diabetes. The main barrier for approval of an anti-obesity drug is the safety requirements. We propose to overcome this barrier by discovering phenotypes and biomarkers that identify subsets of patients with safe and efficacious responses to drugs, and by identifying new indications of ...
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Isometric actions (isometric)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

The increasingly demanding challenges in our society require the development of innovative ideas. These ideas often originate from mathematical models of phenomena in natural and life sciences, in medicine and business, in technology and engineering, in manufacturing and design, and in other areas. Many of these models lead to geometric structures describing the phenomena precisely or, in most cas ...
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Study of Strongly Interacting Matter (HadronPhysics2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

The Project promotes the access to five European Research Infrastructures, and it is structured intop eight Networking Activities, plus the Management of the Consortium, and fourteen Joint Research Activities. The Project represents the continuation of the successful HadronPhysics project in FP6 and originates from the initiative of more than 2.500 European scientists working in the field of hadro ...
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Targeted R&D Policy (TARGET)

Start date: Jul 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

Radical changes in the global economy expose business sectors to major threats as well as to various new opportunities. Policy makers are required to target subsequent opportunities by enabling or promoting the business sector to take advantage of them. However, existing horizontal R&D policies focused on promoting R&D activity in individual firms are often lacking in this respect. Current and fut ...
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New strategies for bioconjugation to quantum dots. Study of protein-nucleic acids and protein-protein interactions using fluorescence resonance energy transfer through quantum-dot-protein conjugates (QDs)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2011,

Quantum Dots (QDs) are a relative new semiconductor nanoparticles made from Cd/Se or Cd/Te with a shell of ZnS that have very excellent spectroscopic properties: broad absorption spectra, low photobleaching levels, narrow and symmetric emission bands, high quantum yields and large stoke shifts, which make them very attractive for fluorescence applications and, principally, for research studies in ...
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Elaboration of advanced-level models for density management of coniferous and broadleaved even-aged natural stands and plantations in Europe (EurSDMDPineBirchOak)

Start date: Sep 14, 2009, End date: Sep 13, 2011,

The proposed project aims to improve the predictive abilities and practical applicability and to extend the modeling framework of the Stand Density Management Diagrams (SDMD). The established SDMD for Scots pine plantations in Bulgaria will be re-evaluated employing methodological improvements, a disaggregation system for stand structure characterization will be developed and verification of the n ...
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Theory and phenomenology of the heavy ion collision program at the LHC (HIC-LHC-2008)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2011,

"The discovery potential of the Large Hadron Collider and, in particular, its heavy-ion program, will be largely conditioned by the existence of strong theoretical groups able to interpret the experimental findings. We present a project on QCD under extreme conditions with the clear aim to provide the necessary tools to understand the LHC data.The kinematical reach of the LHC increases by more tha ...
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Bivalve conditioning and settlement – keys to competitive hatchery production (SETTLE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2010,

"Hatchery production of bivalves during autumn and winter (outside natural spawning season) is a challenge, but necessary to keep market shares and ensure sufficient seed supply to European growers on a year-round basis. The SETTLE project will focus on key events during hatchery production of flat oyster (Ostrea edulis) and great scallop (Pecten maximus) which are species native to Europe. The ov ...
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Biopolymer-Based Nanoparticle “Smart” Drug Delivery Systems and their Biopharmaceutical Application by Oral Administration (BioNanoSmart_DDS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2010,

This initiative aims to gain both fundamental understanding and applied knowledge on novel polysaccharide-based nanoparticles to be utilized as ‘smart’ advanced delivery systems of therapeutic biomacromolecules for oral administration. To this end, nanoparticles will be harnessed from chitosan and other polyionic polysaccharides of biomedical use, cross-linked with a natural non-toxic biocompatibl ...
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Evaluation, Analysis and Management of the biodiversity within the specie Castanea Sativa in the Atlantic space (CASTANEA REG)

Start date: May 31, 2003, End date: Jan 29, 2008,

To respond to the needs of sustainable agriculture and forestry, it is necessary to preserve, among the plant species of the Atlantic Area, significant genetic diversity. The European Chestnut (Castanea sativa), the production of which makes possible the maintenance of agricultural and forestry activities in traditional rural areas, is an essential species, but one menaced by various diseases. The ...
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