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European multidisciplinary ALS network identification to cure motor neuron degeneration (Euro-MOTOR)
Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2016,
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis is one of the most devastating diseases in neurology affecting in Europe 50,000 individuals at any time, and causing around 10,000 deaths each year. ALS is characterized by progressive degeneration of motor neurons in brain and spinal cord leading to muscle weakness. ALS affects otherwise healthy people at any time in adulthood. The patient becomes paralyzed and dies ...
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Enhancing resource Uptake from Roots under stress in cereal crops (EUROOT)
Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2015,
The overall goal of EURoot is to help farmers to face both climate change, which is expected to result in increasingly uneven rainfall, and meet the societal demand for sustainable agriculture with reduced use of water and fertilizers. EURoot objective is to enhance the cereal plant capability to acquire water and nutrients through their roots and maintain growth and performance under stress condi ...
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Orchestration of Renewable Integrated Generation in Neighbourhoods (ORIGIN)
Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,
We will develop a sophisticated intelligent ICT system for the management of energy in a community, and associated business models, focussed on the concepts of aligning energy demand with the availability of renewables-based supply, addressing community goals for cost, carbon footprint and other objectives.-The system will comprise algorithms for prediction of demand and supply, optimization of en ...
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Targeting the tumour microenvironment to improve pancreatic cancer prognosis (EPC-TM-Net)
Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jul 31, 2014,
Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal human cancers with a five-year survival rate of less than 5%. Late presentation and a high level of resistance to chemotherapeutic drugs are among the major reasons for this dismal prognosis. The presence of the highest degree of desmoplasia among all solid tumours and the fact that chronic inflammatory pancreatic disease is associated with an increased ...
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Innovative Manufacturing of complex Ti sheet components (INMA)
Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2014,
"The INMA project aims at developing an intelligent knowledge-based (KB) flexible manufacturing technology for titanium shaping that will lead to drastically reduce current aircraft development costs incurred by the fabrication of complex titanium sheet components with a minimal environmental impact. In particular, this project aims at strengthening European aircraft industry competitiveness, by t ...
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Hotspot Ecosystem Research and Man's Impact on European seas (HERMIONE)
Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2012,
The HERMIONE project is designed to make a major advance in our knowledge of the functioning of deep-sea ecosystems and their contribution to the production of goods and services. This will be achieved through a highly interdisciplinary approach (including biologists, ecologists, microbiologists, biogeochemists, sedimentologists, physical oceanographers, modelers and socio-economists) that will in ...
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