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Resistance in Gram-Negative Organisms: Studying Intervention Strategies (R-GNOSIS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

Antibiotics are a mainstay of public health, but their use has increased exponentially leading to the emergence of antibiotic resistance. The R-GNOSIS (Resistance in Gram-Negative Organisms: Studying Intervention Strategies) project combines 5 international clinical studies, all supported by highly innovative microbiology, mathematical modelling and data-management, to determine - in the most rele ...
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MANpower - Energy Harvesting and Storage for Low Frequency Vibrations (MANpower)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

Energy harvesting at low frequency has proven to be difficult to achieve in the past because of the properties of the materials that the devices are fabricated from. In particular the stiffness of conventional silicon and all piezoelectric materials makes it exceedingly difficult to make a system that can operate below 100Hz. There are many sources of low frequency vibrations e.g. human motion, th ...
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Green roofs that clean SME industrial gas containing low and variable concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds (GRABGAS)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Cost-effectiveness for controlling emissions of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) in industrial waste gas depend on the characteristics of the gas emitted. SMEs affected by VOC emission Directive 99/13/EC (wood, printing, surface cleaning, dry cleaning, leather, vehicle refinishing) generate low and variable concentrations of several different VOCs in small volumes of waste air. This profile of VOC ...
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Graphene-Based Revolutions in ICT And Beyond (GRAPHENE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

This Flagship aims to take graphene and related layered materials from a state of raw potential to a point where they can revolutionize multiple industries – from flexible, wearable and transparent electronics, to new energy applications and novel functional composites.Our main scientific and technological objectives in the different tiers of the value chain are to develop material technologies fo ...
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Advanced Radio Astronomy in Europe (RADIONET3)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

RadioNet is an I3 that coordinates all of Europe’s leading radio astronomy facilities in an integrated cooperation to achieve transformational improvement in the quality and quantity of the scientific research of European astronomers. RadioNet3 includes 27 partners operating world-class radio telescopes and/or performing cutting-edge R&D in a wide range of technology fields important for radio ast ...
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Regenerating Bone defects using New biomedical Engineering approaches (REBORNE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2015,

Bone is among the most frequently transplanted tissue with about 1 million procedures annually in Europe. The worldwide market of bone replacement materials is currently estimated at 5 billion € with a 10% annual growth. Despite their considerable disadvantages, including the risk of disease transfer and immunologic rejection, limited supply of bone, costs and complications, allografts and autogra ...
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OpenLab: extending FIRE testbeds and tools (OpenLab)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Jun 30, 2014,

Experimentally-driven research is key to success in exploring the possible futures of the Internet. An open, general-purpose, shared experimental facility, both large-scale and sustainable, is essential for European industry and academia to innovate today and assess the performance of their solutions. OpenLab brings together the essential ingredients for such a facility. We extend early prototypes ...
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Millimetre-wave Integrated Diode and Amplifier Sources (MIDAS)

Start date: May 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2013,

"The MIDAS project will redress the technology imbalance between the EU and the US in a most significant area of European technology non-dependence, affecting the scientific and commercial exploitation of the sub-millimetre region of the electro-magnetic spectrum. Within MIDAS, critical Schottky varactor diodes and the simulation tools for fabricating and designing state-of-the-art sub-millimetre ...
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A pharmacogenomic approach to coumarin anticoagulant therapy (EU-PACT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

"The effectiveness of treatment with oral anticoagulants in the prevention of thrombotic disorders is well established, but these drugs are potentially dangerous because of their narrow therapeutic index. In Europe three coumarins are used: warfarin, acenocoumarol, and phenprocoumon. Genetic factors that have been recently demonstrated to change the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of coumari ...
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Paediatric European Network Treatment AIDS Laboratory Network (PENTA LABNET) (PENTA-LABNET)

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

"PENTA-LABNET(PL) is a coordination action aimed at improving the range of products and clinical use of antiretrovirals(ARVs) in HIV-infected children in resource-rich and resource-limited countries. This will be achieved through building capacity of laboratories to undertake co-ordinated studies on pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacogenetics of new formulations and dosing and studies ...
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Adipokines as Drug Targets to Combat Adverse Effects of Excess Adipose Tissue (ADAPT)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2012,

"Obesity represents the major risk factor for the cardiometabolic syndrome, which is an epidemic disease that generates a severe global socio-economic burden for the public health systems. Enhanced production of proinflammatory adipocytokines by expanded adipose tissue is now considered as a key event in the pathogenesis of this syndrome. This process involves i) the systemic release of adipokines ...
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Modeling the surface properties of small bodies of the inner and outer Solar system (ASTROSURFACE)

Start date: Sep 15, 2009, End date: Sep 14, 2011,

"The project is aimed to study surface properties of small bodies from the inner and outer belts of the Solar system in order to put constraints on their formation and surface evolution scenarios. We plan to develop a complex approach to derive characteristics of the topmost surface layer of atmosphereless bodies, mainly average particle size and porosity, from remote observations. The main idea i ...
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NEtwork of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications++ (NEWCOM++) (NEWCOM++)

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

NEWCOM++ is the acronym of a proposed Network of Excellence in Wireless COMmunications, submitted to Call 1 of the VII Framework Programme under the Objective ICT-2007.1.1: The Network of the Future, mainly in its target direction "Ubiquitous network infrastructure and architectures". The current proposal draws inspiration, shape/form, and substantive direction from its successful predecessor, t ...
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The genetic dissection of herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) in children (NOVELPID)

Start date: May 1, 2008, End date: Apr 30, 2010,

"Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is a rare disease affecting young children as well as adults due to primary infection with herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1). HSV-1 is a nearly ubiquitous virus commonly infecting humans however most do not develop HSE, suggesting that these children possess an underlying genetic susceptibility to HSV-1. In addition, familial forms of HSE have been described, and in ...
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Headwater streams and faunistic Heritage associated (LIFE TBFPA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2004, End date: Sep 30, 2009,

Background The ecological importance and the functional key role of headwater hydrosystems are very often underestimated and largely unknown. Four major species of community interest covered by the Habitats Directive are linked to those hydrosystems: the white-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes), freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifer ...
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