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RD-CONNECT: An integrated platform connecting registries, biobanks and clinical bioinformatics for rare disease research (RD-CONNECT)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

Despite examples of excellent practice, rare disease (RD) research is still mainly fragmented by data and disease types. Individual efforts have little interoperability and almost no systematic connection between detailed clinical and genetic information, biomaterial availability or research/trial datasets. By developing robust mechanisms and standards for linking and exploiting these data, RD-Con ...
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Identification of molecular targets for the treatment of the skeletal phenotype in Lysosomal Storage Disorders (.BLASTED2)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"Lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs) are inherited diseases characterized by progressive intracellular accumulation of undigested macromolecules due to lysosomal dysfunction. This results in a complex phenotype with broad pathological manifestations. Most LSDs are characterized by defective skeletogenesis. Despite this, the mechanisms by which lysosomal storage affects skeletal development and func ...
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Biological Foundation for the Safety Classification of Engineered Nanomaterials (ENM): Systems Biology Approaches to Understand Interactions of ENM with Living Organisms and the Environment (NANOSOLUTIONS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

The main objective of this research proposal is to identify and elaborate those characteristics of ENM that determine their biological hazard potential. This potential includes the ability of ENM to induce damage at the cellular, tissue, or organism levels by interacting with cellular structures leading to impairment of key cellular functions. These adverse effects may be mediated by ENM-induced a ...
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Beyond the Genome; training the next generation of ophthalmic researchers (EyeTN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Eye research has often blazed a trail for other disciplines to follow, giving a lead in neuroscience, genetics, the development of gene- and stem-cell therapies and other important areas of medical research. In recent years, geneticists have made many remarkable discoveries of relevance both to normal human vision and the development of inherited retinal pathology. However the genes and mutations ...
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Systems biology of liver cancer: an integrative genomic-epigenomic approach (MODHEP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

"Cancer is a complex disease involving multiple genetic and epigenetic events occurring, and influencing each other, over a long period of time. Understanding cancer, and ultimately developing effective targeted therapies, will therefore require that mutations and epigenetic alterations be systematically investigated during the multiple stages of disease development, from identifiable pre-neoplast ...
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Search for novel molecules cross-talking between muscle and cancer with therapeutic potential against cachexia and cancer (muscleandcancer)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

Cancer cachexia is a life-threatening syndrome characterized by severe body weight loss, due to depletion of adipose tissue and skeletal muscle, and affects up to 80% of patients with advanced cancers. The rapid loss of muscle mass is the main cause of function impairment, fatigue and respiratory complications, leading to death in 20-48% of cases. To date, no effective treatment is available. By u ...
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Wnt/beta-Catenin Signalling Pathway Controls Reprogramming: The Basis Of Regeneration In Higher Vertebrates (RERE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Differentiation from zygotes in all cells of the body has been considered a unidirectional route. Recently, however, it has become clear that the inverse path is possible, as the reprogramming of somatic nuclei, i.e. the de-differentiation of somatic cells in pluripotent stem-like cells. To date, reprogramming has been induced in vitro by transferring somatic nuclei into enucleated oocytes, by fus ...
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Rapid development and distribution of statistical tools for high-throughput sequencing data (RADIANT)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: Nov 30, 2015,

"High-throughput sequencing (HTS) is a powerful and rapidly evolving family of technologies with a multitude of applications. They include genetics of rare and common diseases, understanding of disease mechanism and progression through transcriptome and epigenome profiling, cancer stratification, personalised medicine and molecular systems biology of gene regulation. The genome, epigenome, transcr ...
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Targeting glucocorticoid resistance in T-ALL: a Systems Biology approach (TiGRe)

Start date: Dec 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive hematologic cancer that accounts for 10% to 15% of pediatric and 25% of adult ALL cases. Glucocorticoids play a central role in the treatment of T-ALL due to their capacity to induce growth arrest and apoptosis in lymphoid progenitor cells. The development of glucocortioid resistance in leukemia patients is an important clinical problem ...
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A systems biology approach to dissect cilia function and its disruption in human genetic disease (SYSCILIA)

Start date: Jun 1, 2010, End date: May 31, 2015,

AIM: To identify the molecular mechanisms characterizing cilium function, and the discrete perturbations associated with dysfunction caused by mutations in inherited ciliopathies, applying a systems biology approach. BACKGROUND: Cilia are microtubule-based, centriole-derived projections from the cell surface. They transduce extracellular signals and regulate key processes in which signals of the e ...
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From Data to Models: New Bioinformatics Methods and Tools for Data-Driven Predictive Dynamic Modelling in Biotechnological Applications (BIOPREDYN)

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

Currently, biologists are collecting enormous amounts of ‘omics’ data in a vast number of different databases. Predictive, data-driven computational models are needed to understand the complex, multi-scale biological networks underlying these high-throughput datasets. Such models are non-linear and contain many parameters, which are difficult (or impossible) to measure directly. Instead, parameter ...
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Modulating cellular clearance to cure human disease (CLEAR)

Start date: Mar 1, 2010, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

Cellular clearance is a fundamental process required by all cells in all species. Important physiological processes, such as aging, and pathological mechanisms, such as neurodegeneration, are strictly dependent on cellular clearance. In eukaryotes, most of the cellular clearing processes occur in a specialized organelle, the lysosome. This project is based on a recent discovery, made in our labora ...
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Activation of vasculature associated stem cells and muscle stem cells for the repair and maintenance of muscle tissue (Endostem)

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

We propose to develop new strategies to mobilize skeletal muscle tissue-associated stem cells as a tool for efficient tissue repair. This will be combined with exploring novel approaches that limit tissue damage, and will focus on agents that modify muscle and muscle vasculature progenitor cells. These molecules include nitric oxide associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, HMGB1, Cri ...
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Fighting blindness of Usher syndrome: diagnosis, pathogenesis and retinal treatment (TreatRetUsher) (TREATRUSH)

Start date: Feb 1, 2010, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

Usher syndrome (USH) is the most frequent hereditary cause of deafness associated to blindness. It is a rare disease, affecting 1 in every 10.000 individuals, with an autosomal recessive monogenic inheritance. Deafness is congenital while the retinitis pigmentosa is not detected before the age of 8 to 10. These patients suffer from a dreadful disability as their two major senses are impaired. Impo ...
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“The International Data Coordination Centre” (I-DCC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"The I-DCC coordination and support project responds to the topic defined by HEALTH-2007-2.1.2-6 “International activities in large-scale data gathering and systems biology”. I-DCC integrates European skills, efforts, resources, and infrastructure in an international collaborative programme to establish a European Data Coordination Centre for mouse genetic resources. Large-scale mouse mutagenesis ...
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Definition of a genetic network involved in congenital heart disease (CardioGeNet)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

This application focuses on transcriptional networks that govern the development of a heart region commonly affected by congenital heart disease (CHD). The major goal is to provide the clinical and basic science research communities with a validated list of interconnected genes required for normal heart development. To achieve this goal, we have recruited 6 European groups of scientists strongly ...
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Study of the functional role of microRNAs in the eye (EYE MICRORNAS)

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

"The eye is a highly specialized organ whose development and function requires a precise coordination and timing of morphogenetic and cell differentiation events. However, in spite of the recent significant advances in the field, also facilitated by the human and the mouse genomic sequencing efforts, the transcriptional control of this complex network of events is still poorly understood. This pro ...
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High throughput molecular diagnostics in individual patients for genetic diseases with heterogeneous clinical presentation (TECHGENE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

"Since the sequencing of the human genome has been completed the demand for genetic analysis in the human health care system is drastically increasing, and the extension of molecular genetic diagnostics is urgently needed. However, the majority of genetic diseases is molecularly and clinically highly heterogeneous, and until recently the available techniques lacked the required capacity to analyze ...
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GENE THERAPY FOR INHERITED SEVERE PHOTORECEPTOR DISEASES (AAVEYE)

Start date: Nov 1, 2008, End date: Oct 31, 2011,

"The retina represents the visual sensory receptor of the nervous system (CNS). Inherited diseases like Retintitis Pigmentosa (RP) and Leber Congenital Amaurosis (LCA), for which no therapies are available, are due to mutations in genes preferentially expressed in the photoreceptor cells of the retina. Vectors derived from the adeno-associated virus (AAV) efficiently transduce the retina of anima ...
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A European Consortium for Lysosomal Disorders (EUCLYD)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2011,

"The EUCLYD consortium aims at developing a scientific network among outstanding communities of basic and clinical investigators in five European countries (Italy, Netherlands, UK, Sweden and Germany) to study various aspects of lysosomal storage diseases (LSD). LSDs are rare disorders (overall prevalence of 1/5000 to 1/8000), each due to a specific lysosomal enzyme deficiency, leading to intracel ...
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"Pathophysiology of rare diseases due to ciliary dysfunction: nephronophthisis, Oral-facial-digital type 1 and Bardet-Biedl syndromes" (EUCILIA)

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

"Primary cilia have been recognized on nearly all-mammalian cells. Emerging data suggest that they act as cellular antennae with diverse motility and sensory functions, detecting a wide variety of signals. As such, defects in cilia formation or function have profound effects on the development of body pattern and the physiology of multiple organ systems. Ciliary defects underlie a wide range of hu ...
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