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Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe - Molecules against Gram Negative Infections (COMBACTE-MAGNET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major global public health threat, and most troublesome is the rapid emergence and dissemination of multidrug resistant (MDR) Enterobacteriaceae, Acinetobacter species and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. There is an unmet medical need to prevent P. aeruginosa infection in critically ill patients and to develop new antibiotics for infections caused by Gram-negative bacte ...
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Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe - Carbapenem Resistance (COMBACTE-CARE)

Start date: Mar 1, 2015, End date: Feb 28, 2020,

Multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MDR-GNB): the ultimate challenge!Antibiotic resistance is a global public health concern recently elevated to the top three threats identified by the WHO, and subject of numerous national and international government activities. Although focused strategies have beneficially influenced infection rates due to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (M ...
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Diamond Quantum Devices and Biology (BioQ)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2019,

Many of the most remarkable contributions of modern science to society have arisen from interdisciplinary work of scientists enabling novel imaging and sensing technologies (NMR, X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy). BioQ will revolutionize the state of the art to create novel sensing technologies for the broad field of life sciences research that provide unprecedented access and insight into s ...
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Integrative Analysis of Gene Functions in Cellular and Animal Models of Pancreatic Cancer (CAM-PAC)

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

Cancers are genetic disease arising from the accumulation of multiple molecular alterations in affected cells. Large-scale genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic analyses have established comprehensive catalogues of molecules which are altered in their structure and/or abundance in malignant tumors as compared to healthy tissues. Far less developed are concepts and methods to integrate data from di ...
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Innovative Nanoformulation of Antimicrobial Peptides to Treat Bacterial Infectious Diseases (FORMAMP)

Start date: Dec 1, 2013, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

Resistance to traditional antibiotics is a rapidly increasing problem that in a few years could make infections impossible to treat and bring the state of medical care back to the pre-antibiotic era from the beginning of the last century. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have a huge potential as new therapeutics against infectious diseases as they are less prone to induce resistance due to their fast ...
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Cold Molecular Ions at the Quantum Limit (COMIQ)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

"COMIQ (COld Molecular Ions at the Quantum limit)will investigate how cooling, trapping, and control techniques applied molecular ion can expand the realm of quantum technology, enhance precision meaurements on molecular systems and lead to chemistry at the ultracold quantum limit."
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INTEGRATED IN SITU CHEMICAL MAPPING PROBES (SCHEMA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

SCHeMA is a multi-disciplinary collaborative project aiming to provide an open and modular sensing solution for in situ high resolution mapping of a range of anthropogenic and natural chemical compounds. Key targets are chemicals that may adversely affect marine ecosystems, living resources and ultimately human health. The SCHeMa tools will enhance ocean observing system capabilities to evaluate t ...
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Vitrified Metals Technologies and Applications in Devices and Chemistry (VitriMetTech)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

VitriMetTech aims at educating a group of young researchers to implement methods for cutting edge research on new metallic glasses (e.g. Fe, Mg, Al, Ti-based), also in bulk form, and their amorphous/crystalline composites, for functional, bio-mechanical, chemical and structural micro-part applications. Transfer of results to industrial companies will boost innovation in a part of the Metal sector ...
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DIAmond Devices Enabled Metrology and Sensing (DIADEMS)

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

The DIADEMS project aims at exploiting the unique physical properties of NV color centres in ultrapure single-crystal CVD-grown diamond to develop innovative devices with unprecedented performances for ICT applications. By exploiting the atom-like structure of the NV that exhibits spin dependent optical transitions, DIADEMS will make optics-based magnetometry possible.The objectives of DIADEMS are ...
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Phonon-Assisted Processes for Energy Transfer and Sensing (PAPETS)

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

There is mounting experimental and theoretical evidence that suggests that coherent electronic and vibrational dynamics are essential to understand physiological processes. This project addresses this newly emerging frontier between biology and quantum physics by aiming to determine the role of coherent vibrational dynamics in the efficiency of energy storage in natural and artificial light harves ...
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Interactive Manual Assembly Operations for the Human-Centered Workplaces of the Future (INTERACT)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

New methods and tools for the design of production systems should be used in order to provide advanced services to the industry shop-floor personnel in terms of ergonomics, safety, efficiency, complexity management and work satisfaction. In the field of planning and verifying human-centred assembly workplaces, available simulation and sensor technologies should be further improved. In many cases, ...
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Context-Aware Cloud Topology Optimisation and Simulation (CACTOS)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

User demand and new technologies are driving a drastic increase in cloud infrastructure scale, heterogeneity and complexity. The demand for better energy efficiency has led to a variety of technological options to build servers from different CPU architectures as well as specialised options for highly parallel tasks such as manycore systems or General Purposed GPUs. At the same time, service provi ...
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Programming Large Scale Heterogeneous Infrastructures (POLCA)

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

Description A new mathematically based methodolgy for the development of heterogeneous systemsThe execution speed of processors has not increased since roughly 2006. To cope with the ever growing demands, computers are nowadays essentially an integration of multiplecomputers, called multi-core processors. However, most software has been d ...
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novel CATAlyst structures employing Pt at Ultra Low and zero loadings for auTomotive MEAs (CATAPULT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2016,

"Project CATAPULT proposes to develop a radically new concept for automotive PEM fuel cell catalysts based on novel structures wherein platinum is deposited as an extremely thin layer (
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Theoretical studies on the functionalisation of metal surfaces with organic and biological complexes under electrochemical conditions (THEOFUN)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2016,

The aim of this project is to understand the mechanisms behind the functionalisation of metal surfaces with organic and biologicalcomplexes under realistic electrochemical conditions. Focusing on low-index surfaces of gold and platinum, which are also theelectrodes in corresponding experiments, we will use a series of theoretical methods applicable for different time- and lengthsscalesto investiga ...
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Novel infrared spectroscopic tools for mycotoxin determination in foodstuffs for increased food safety (MYCOSPEC)

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

Mycotoxins are contaminants produced by fungi that infest food crops and processed foods. Mycotoxins enter the food chain via infected crops that are either directly consumed by humans or indirectly ingested as a consequence of crops as an animal feed ingredient. These toxins have been linked to human oesophageal cancer, equine leukoencephalomalacia, and toxic feed syndrome in poultry, and pulmona ...
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