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Mesoscopic Plasmonics: Bridging Classical and Quantum Nano-Optics (MESOPLAS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"The boost experienced by nanophotonics research during the past decade has been driven by the ability of surface plasmons to collect and concentrate light into deeply sub-wavelength volumes. The hybrid nature of surface plasmons (which emerge from the coupling of photons to the collective oscillations of conduction electrons in metals) has allowed an unprecedented control of light at the nanoscal ...
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Design and Applications of Unconventional Borylation Reactions (DAUBOR)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2019,

"Boronic esters are versatile synthetic intermediates for the preparation of a wide range of organic molecules. The recent approval of the anti-cancer agent Velcade, the first boronic acid containing drug commercialized, further confirms the status of boronic acid derivatives as an important class of compounds in chemistry and medicine. This proposal aims to develop three new unconventional approa ...
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Cold and wet early Mars: Proposing and testing a new theory to understand the early Martian environments (icyMARS)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

Geologic evidence indicative of flowing and ponding liquid water on the surface of ancient Mars appears abundantly across most of the Martian landscape, indicating that liquid water was present in variable amounts and for long periods of time on and/or near the surface at different moments of Mars’ early history, the Noachian era. Early Mars appears to have been “wet”. However, the presence of liq ...
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Clinical Studies on a Multivalent Vaccine for Human Visceral Leishmaniasis (MuLeVaClin)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2018,

The World Health Organisation in its report on Neglected Tropical Diseases has stated that there is overwhelming evidence to show that the burden caused by many of the 17 diseases that affect more than 1billion people worldwide can be effectively controlled and, in many cases, eliminated or even eradicated. Leishmaniasis caused by Leishmania spp is one of them and poses a grave health risk to an e ...
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Utility of omic-based biomarkers in characterizing older individuals at risk for frailty, its progression to disability and general consequences to health and well-being - The FRAILOMIC Initiative (FRAILOMIC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

The forecasted increase in the number of older people for this century will be accompanied by an increase of those with disabilities. Disability is usually preceded by a condition named frailty that encompasses changes associated with ageing, life styles and chronic diseases. To detect and intervene on it is of outstanding importance to prevent disability, as recovery from disability is unlikely. ...
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Strong Coupling of Organic Molecules and Plasmons (StroCOMP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

"The improvement of fabrication technology over the last decades enables the accurate creation of almost arbitrarily shaped nanoscale metal structures. In such systems, quasi-bound surface modes (plasmons) provide strong, sub-wavelength confinement of electromagnetic fields. This confinement leads to strongly increased coupling between light and matter, and increases the possible spatial resolutio ...
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Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Studies at High Magnetic Fields: Visualizing Pnictide and Heavy Fermion Superconductivity (ExtremeFieldImaging)

Start date: Sep 1, 2013, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The purpose of this project is to provide basic knowledge about how the properties of superconductors vary at the local level under strong magnetic fields. New phases such as the FFLO state in Pauli limited superconductors or fully polarized vortex phase in ferromagnetic heavy fermions have been predicted. However, no direct observation of such phases using real space imaging has been reported yet ...
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Ultra High-throughput platform for the selection of thermostable proteins by thermophilic in vitro transcription-translation and microfluidics (HOTDROPS)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2017,

"This initiative connects four companies and four academic groups in pursuit of a central biotechnological challenge: to identify and improve enzymes for application in industrial biocatalysis. The technology interchange is centered around key technologies to generate thermostabilized proteins. We will develop, share and spread the following approaches (i) folding interference assays with a therm ...
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OPERATIONALISATION OF NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: FROM CONCEPTS TO REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS (OPENNESS)

Start date: Dec 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2017,

Despite improved understanding of the links between ecosystem health, provision of ecosystem services and human well-being, further conceptual and empirical work is needed to make the ideas of ecosystem services (ESS) and natural capital (NC) operational. OpenNESS will therefore develop innovative and practical ways of applying them in land, water and urban management: it will identify how, where ...
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Actuation and characterisation at the single bond limit (ACRITAS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

"Scanning probe microscopy(SPM) has now evolved to the point where not only is imaging and manipulation with single atom resolution achievable but the state of the art in the field involves sub-molecular and sub-atomic resolution: individual chemical bonds can be resolved, their properties measured, and their spatial symmetry exploited.SPM is, however, increasingly a victim of its own success. The ...
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Mechanisms of MTOC guidance and Genetic Transfer at the Immune Synapse: novel modes of Immuno-modulation (GENTRIS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2017,

"Cell-cell synapses are an exquisitely evolved means of communication between cells. During the formation of the immune synapse (IS), diverse transmembrane and membrane associated molecules are reorganized into a highly segregated structure at the T cell–Antigen-Presenting Cell (APC) contact site. As part of this process, the tubulin cytoskeleton is vectorially directed toward the center of the IS ...
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Sustainable fuel production by aqueous phase reforming – understanding catalysis and hydrothermal stability of carbon supported noble metals (SUSFUELCAT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

Biomass conversion is of high priority for sustainable fuel production, to reduce the reliance of Europe on fossil fuel production and to provide environmentally friendly energy. Aqueous phase reforming (APR) is one of the most promising, competitive ways for the production of liquid and gaseous fuels from biomass, since it is low energy consuming. APR enables processing of wet biomass resources w ...
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"The Singlet Oxygen Strategy: sustainable oxidation procedures for applications in material science, synthesis, wastewater treatment, diagnostics and therapeutics" (SO2S)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"The SO2S network seeks to exploit Singlet Oxygen (1O2) as a green and benign oxidant for use in novel synthetic methodologies, crosslinking strategies, bioconjugation procedures and materials production. The chemistry described herein generates the means to both understand and influence biological systems by providing probes and reagents – from analytical methods to new drugs - and to modulate ma ...
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"Technocracy and Democracy: convergence, conflicts and negotiations. A comparative and global analysis of expert knowledge and political power (18th to 21th century)" (TECHDEM)

Start date: Jun 15, 2014, End date: Nov 7, 2016,

"The relationship between knowledge and power represents a widely discussed issue in several social sciences and humanities. The TECHDEM research project at the CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain) explores the origins of technocracy, examining the ways in which special or expert knowledge has become a source of legitimacy in public debate and in political decision ...
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Federation for FIRE (Fed4FIRE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

A federation of experimentation facilities will significantly accelerate Future Internet research. Fed4FIRE will deliver open and easily accessible facilities to the FIRE experimentation communities, which focus on fixed and wireless infrastructures, services and applications, and combinations thereof. The project will develop a demand-driven common federation framework, based on an open architect ...
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A Gateway to European Kidney Research Resources - KidneyConnect (KidneyConnect)

Start date: Aug 1, 2013, End date: Jul 31, 2016,

Diabetes, Cardiovascular and Chronic kidney (DCC) -diseases are relentlessly increasing globally, causing enormous human suffering, premature deaths and unsustainable costs. Leading European research has indisputably pointed that the kidney filtration barrier and its epithelial cell, the podocyte, is a common denominator for the DCC-diseases. However, European excellence and expertise have remaine ...
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Scalable Modelling and Model Management on the Cloud (MONDO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

As Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is increasingly applied to larger and more complex systems, the current generation of modelling and model management technologies are being pushed to their limits in terms of capacity and efficiency, and as such, additional research is imperative in order to enable MDE to remain relevant with industrial practice and continue delivering its widely recognised produc ...
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New tools for assembling complex molecules (CHAAS)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"The direct and selective C-H activation of aliphatic scaffolds unlocks attractive opportunities for significantly different synthetic strategies. Although it represents an important and long-standing goal in chemistry, very few actual methods are truly practical. This project aims at achieving further mechanistic insights, focusing on steps and factors controlling the activity and selectivity of ...
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Harmonic Analysis for optimal coding and the design principles of brain's Visual corteX (HAVIX)

Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

HAViX is an interdisciplinary project on the interplay between frame theory, nonlinear approximation and group theory, aimed to obtain results relevant to the understanding of the functional architecture of brain's visual cortex and to applications to artificial vision.The objectives are highly relevant mathematical results with respect to deep current problems in harmonic analysis, and concern th ...
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Hypervalent Chemistry and Catalysis (Hypercat)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The use of hypervalent compounds as homogeneous redox catalysts represents a departure from the stoichiometric use of main group reagents in synthesis. The methods proposed here are expected to hold significant promise for application in complex small molecule synthesis. The repertoire of oxidative ligand coupling reactions developed is expected to complement, and in some cases compete with, known ...
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INVISIBLES

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

"NEUTRINOS AND DARK MATTER are the most abundant particles in the universe and yet they remained unnoticed -invisible- for a long time, due to their tenuous couplings to the ordinary matter we are composed of.Neutrino masses inferred from neutrino oscillations and the existence of dark matter constitute the first evidence ever of particle physics beyond the Standard Model. A wide experimental prog ...
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Global solar spectrum harvesting through highly efficient photovoltaic and thermoelectric integrated cells (GLOBASOL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

GLOBASOL will develop new concepts, materials and devices for advanced light harvesting and light management for a panchromatic collection of the solar energy and an unprecedented power conversion efficiency. This will be accomplished by integrating in a single device three light-to-electricity converters, exploiting different regions of the solar spectrum based on sensitized mesoscopic solar cell ...
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Biometrics Evaluation and Testing (BEAT)

Start date: Mar 1, 2012, End date: Feb 29, 2016,

"Identity management using Biometrics is deployed in a growing number of applications ranging from identification platforms (e.g. biometric passports) to access control systems for border checks or banking transactions.Unfortunately, the reliability of these technologies remains difficult to compare. There are no european-wide standards for evaluating their accuracy, their robustness to attacks or ...
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The Development of Quinoidal Porphyrins, Quinoidal Phthalocyanines, and Quinoidal Diazaporphyrins for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Into the Red (QPorQPcQdaP)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The development of novel materials is crucial to the improvement of solar cells. State-of-the-art dye-sensitized solar cells utilize “push-pull” porphyrin dyes (coded YD2-oC8) and have reported efficiencies up to 12.3%. However, YD2-oC8 and structurally similar dyes display limited to no absorption in the far red and near infrared regions of the solar spectrum. This region is where photon flux ...
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Highly mismatched alloys to implement multiband solar cells (HIMAMIS)

Start date: Mar 21, 2013, End date: Oct 29, 2015,

As it is well-known, it is a fact that one of the biggest problems that concern the current world is relative to the high energy consumption. This proposal is relative to the solar cell, in special with the third generation. This new generation of solar cells is created to obtain high efficiency and low cost conversion devices. Therefore, they are a potential component for the future. The proposal ...
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Non-muscle Myosin II orchestrates the inflammatory response by integrating adhesive and cytokine signaling and the mechanical properties of the inflammatory microenvironment (MYOII-INFLAM)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2015,

This research aims to understand how inflammatory cues regulate the cellular responses of different cells implicated in inflammation. The main hypothesis is that non-muscle myosin II (NMII) is a central integrator of the different types of extracellular signals produced during the inflammatory response. The precise goal of the present proposal is to understand the regulation and function of the ...
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Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in human adrenal chromaffin cells (NRHACC)

Start date: Jul 29, 2013, End date: Jul 28, 2015,

Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) containing the alpha6 subunit have been implicated in neurological and psychiatric conditions including Parkinson’s and nicotinic dependence. Despite their potential therapeutic importance, little is known about the biophysical properties of these receptors in part because of their restricted tissue distribution and poor expression in heterologous systems ...
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Sensing Quantum Information Correlations (SQUIRREL)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"Quantum correlations are those supporting technologies such as quantum information processing. For realistic applications, one has to consider open quantum systems, that is, in contact with the classical world through lifetime and excitation. Quantum correlations are transferred through emitted photons, electrons, etc. and characterise the quantum structure of the system and its suitability as a ...
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Source of Electron Entanglement in Nano Devices (SE2ND)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

SE2ND is a joint experimental and theoretical effort. SE2ND strives to develop a highly efficient and continuous solid-state source of spatially separated spin-entangled electrons. A source of this kind, integrated with other electronic elements, will be of great importance in future quantum processors, where they provide, for example, entanglement distribution required to synchronize quantum circ ...
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Gaining sage on the Epoetins' saga: assessing long term risks and advancing towards better Epoetin driven treatment modalities (EPOCAN)

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

EpoCan aims to develop and implement a comprehensive interdisciplinary strategy to assess the long-term risks of erythropoietin (EPO) and its derivatives (epoetins) on tumour growth progression and thromboembolic events in cancer patients, cardiovascular events, and the development of cancer in chronic kidney disease. Approximately 400,000 patients across Europe receive epoetins treatment each yea ...
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Design of a pan-European Infrastructure for Large Apparatus studying Grand Unification, Neutrino Astrophysics and Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations (LAGUNA-LBNO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2011, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

Key questions in physics can be answered only by constructing a giant underground observatory to search for rare events and study terrestrial and astrophysical neutrinos. The Astroparticle Roadmap of ApPEC/ASPERA strongly supports this, recommending that: “a new large European infrastructure of 100'000-500'000 ton for proton decay and low-energy neutrinos be evaluated as a common design study tog ...
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NOVEL LUMINESCENT UPCONVERSION NANOPARTICLES FOR DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC NANOMEDICINE (LUNAMED)

Start date: Aug 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,

"This proposal describes novel up converting nanoparticles that promise minimal perturbation of living systems. The work is at the leading edge of science in cell targeting, imaging and diagnostic medicine. The outgoing part will be carried out in the laboratory of Professor John A. Capobianco an internationally recognized scientist. His laboratory offers a unique, multidisciplinary environment fo ...
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Fighting Aneurysmal Diseases (FAD)

Start date: Jul 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

"Fighting Aneurysmal Diseases (FAD) is a public health in EU, because of the ageing population. In the absence of intervention, aneurysms evolve towards rupture and death. The translational objectives of the project are to accelerate the acquisition of knowledge, and to develop new diagnostic and therapeutic tools for FAD in humans. The project innovates by integrating two different localizations ...
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Cooperation across Europe for Cd(Zn)Te based Security Instruments (COCAE)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

"The proposal concerns the technology development for instruments with the following capabilities: (a) To make spectroscopic measurements with efficiency equivalent to that of NaI detectors and energy resolution close to that of HPGe devices but without using cryogenic systems. (b) To find the direction and the distance of the radioactive source. (c) To localize the source into a cargo and estim ...
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Exploring Cellular Dynamics at Nanoscale (EXCELL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Dec 31, 2011,

EXCELL is a novel innovative approach to explore interaction mechanisms between biological materials and systems/nanostructures. It involves a forward-looking cross-disciplinary and design-based research to generate an integrated, biologically inspired technological platform of high complexity, able to monitor cell dynamics at nano-scale. Expertise in cellular and molecular biology, nanosciences, ...
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Supramolecular Organization and Application of Functional Nanostructures of Phthalocyanine-like p-Conjugated Molecules (SOAFNPCM)

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

"We plan to use supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly as a tool to organize p-conjugated molecules of the family of the phthalocyanines in a controlled way, in order to build well-defined, nanometer-sized functional objects. More concretely, we want to synthesize phthalocyanine-like molecules that are able to aggregate by p-p stacking interactions forming stable nanowires or nanoparticles. Th ...
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Role of Nrf2 transcription factor in diabetic vasculopathy, oxidative stress and inflammation (Nrfdiabvasc)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Jul 31, 2009,

Vascular diseases represent the main cause of disability and mortality linked with long-term diabetes mellitus, a metabolic disease affecting around 20% of total world population. Diabetic vessels undergo both functional and structural changes, rendering them prone to cardiovascular pathology, including atherosclerosis, hypertension or myocardial infarction. Hyperglycemia, together with inflammati ...
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