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The ABIRISK project provides an integrated approach to the study of immunization against biopharmaceuticals, bringing together a unique panel of experts from different disciplines. ABIRISK will involve many of the European leaders in rheumatology, gastroenterology, hemophilia and multiple sclerosis, caring for ~30,000 patients treated with biopharmaceuticals, with ~10,000 additional patients recru ...

"The main goal of this proposal is to determine how the deadly bacterial pathogen, Neisseria meningitidis (NM), crosses the blood-tissue barriers and invades the brain and other vital organs. The main hypothesis behind this project is that NM, by interacting with the vascular endothelial cells with its pili, induces a signal that opens cell-to-cell junctions and allows the bacteria to penetrate th ...