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Towards enduring mouse resources and services advancing research into human health and disease (INFRAFRONTIER2020)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

The INFRAFRONTIER RI integrates European Mouse Clinics and the European Mouse Mutant Archive with the common goal to ensure access to mouse models for basic research of human health and disease, and to translate this knowledge into therapeutic approaches for the benefit of the European society. The expanded INFRAFRONTIER2020 network, coordinated by the INFRAFRONTIER GmbH, includes 3 SMEs and is st ...
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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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Combatting Bacterial Resistance in Europe (COMBACTE-NET)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The emergence of Antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) is a global problem, having recently been elevated to the top three threats identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO), and subject of numerous national and international government activities, including the Trans-Atlantic Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance established by the US and EU presidencies. The estimated costs of ARB are aro ...
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Microbubble driven multimodal imaging and theranostics for gliomas (THERAGLIO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

Microbubbles (MBs) are used as contrast agent in ultrasound (US) imaging for a variety of tumours while little has been done for glioblastomas, a rare cancer. Intraoperative Contrast-Enhanced US-imaging (CEUS) using lipidic MBs hold promises in increasing extent of resection of such tumors. Furthermore, MBs gained recently interest as a delivery system for drugs. We will develop a new generation o ...
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Human Brain Project Specific Grant Agreement 1 (HBP SGA1)

Start date: Apr 1, 2016, End date: Mar 31, 2018,

...nitiative (HBP) thus proposes a unique strategy that uses ICT to integrate neuroscience data from around the world, to develop a unified multi-level understanding of the brain and diseases, and ultimately to emulate its computational capabilities. The goal is to catalyze a global collaborative effort. During the HBP’s first Specific Grant Agreement (SGA1), the HBP Core Project will outline the bas ...
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European Clinical Research Infrastructures Network - Integrating Activity (ECRIN-IA)

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

ECRIN is a distributed ESFRI-roadmap pan-European infrastructure designed to support multinational clinical research, making Europe a single area for clinical studies, taking advantage of its population size to access patients. Servicing multinational trials started during its preparatory phase, and it now applies for an ERIC status by 2011. The ERIC budget will be restricted to core activities re ...
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Preserving old antibiotics for the future : assessment of clinical efficacy by a pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic approach to optimize effectiveness and reduce resistance for off-patent antibiotics (AIDA)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2017,

The AIDA project aims to answer the question of clinical effectiveness and optimal dosing of 5 off-patent antibiotics for infections caused by multiple drug resistant (MDR) bacteria in three randomized controlled clinical trials. In an era of increasing emergence of drug resistance (EDR) and lack of new antibiotics, old off- patent antibiotics are increasingly being prescribed to patients. However ...
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Taking imaging into the therapeutic domain: Self-regulation of brain systems for mental disorders (BRAINTRAIN)

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

Our proposal is based on the idea that real-time functional neuroimaging can be used to train patients to regulate their own brain activity via neurofeedback training and thus modulate the brain networks of mental disorder, restore function, improve symptoms and promote resilience. We have brought together the core groups that have been instrumental in the development of methods for real-time func ...
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DRIVING RE-INVESTMENT IN R&D AND RESPONSIBLE ANTIBIOTIC USE (DRIVE-AB)

Start date: Oct 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widespread. Its global human and economic burden is tremendous and increasing annually. Yet today only a few pharmaceutical companies retain active antibacterial drug discovery programmes. While the elaboration of antibiotics with novel mechanisms of action is scientifically complex, the chief challenge is diminishing incentives. Pre-market regulatory requirements ...
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Vaccination against Shigella and ETEC: novel antigens, novel approaches (STOPENTERICS)

Start date: Nov 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2017,

To contribute to the development of vaccines against Shigella and ETEC for children of the developing world, STOPENTERICS will provide novel solutions by imposing a two-fold paradigm switch: (i) to break the dogma of serotype-specificity by inducing a cross-protective immunity (ii) to improve the immunogenicity of Shigella glycoconjugates by using synthetic oligosacharides mimicking the lipopolysa ...
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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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Industrial Academic Initial Training Network towards focused treatment of age-related motor symptoms (MOVING BEYOND)

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

Gait and postural control impairments, and falls are ubiquitous among the elderly, and lead to enormous personal, occupational and health care burden. Especially patients with PD are severely affected by the progressive deterioration of these gait and postural control mechanisms. Elucidating mechanisms of age- and disease-related motor control impairments and devising focussed treatment strategies ...
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Development of mouse mutant resources for functional analyses of human diseases - Enhancing the translation of research into innovation (INFRAFRONTIER-I3)

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

The mouse shows great similarities in development, physiology and biochemistry to humans, which makes it a key model for research into human disease. The major challenges for mouse functional genomics in the 21st century are to:• Develop a series of mutant alleles for every gene in the mouse genome• Determine the phenotypic consequences of each mutation• Identify mouse models for the complete dise ...
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Temporal dimensions of information processing as a functional marker of mental state: evidence from schizophrenia (TRW SCHIZO)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2016,

"Real-world events occur not only over extended regions of space but also over extended periods of time. On the time scale of cognition, for example, it takes a few hundred milliseconds to utter a word, a few seconds to utter a sentence, and sometimes much longer to convey an idea. The information gathered at each particular moment, however, only becomes meaningful in the context of previous event ...
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The Human Brain Project (HBP)

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

...oject, part of the FET Flagship Programme, is to translate this vision into reality, using ICT as a catalyst for a global collaborative effort to understand the human brain and its diseases and ultimately to emulate its computational capabilities. The Human Brain Project will last ten years and will consist of a ramp-up phase (from month 1 to month 36) and subsequent operational phases.This Grant ...
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International study for treatment of childhood relapsed ALL 2010 with standard therapy, systematic integration of new agents, and establishment of standardized diagnostic and research (INTREALL)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

Though survival of children with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) has improved, relapse remains a leading cause of mortality in childhood cancer. Given the rarity of the disease, only a large international cooperative group can recruit sufficient patients for prospective studies with specific questions in biologic subgroups. Under the umbrella of the I-BFM SG all relevant mainly European study ...
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Virtual reality-Treadmill combined Intervention for enhancing Mobility and reducing falls in the Elderly (V-TIME)

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

"Falls are a major public health concern that directly affects millions of elderly Europeans, the healthcare system, and the adult children and caregivers of older people. The V-TIME approach combines cutting edge technology with emerging concepts from gerontology, neuroscience and rehabilitation to reduce fall risk in a unique way. The V-TIME multi-modal intervention consists of treadmill traini ...
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Biohybrid templates for peripheral nerve regeneration (Biohybrid)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The BIOHYBRID consortium was build up with the overall aim to develop, in a preclinical perspective, an innovative biohybrid artificial nerve device for the regenerative treatment of traumatic injuries of peripheral nerves. This consortium consists of three active and well integrated SMEs as well as seven academic partners that are recognised leaders in the scientific areas of interest for this pr ...
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SAFER AND FASTER EVIDENCE-BASED TRANSLATION (SAFE-T)

Start date: Jun 15, 2009, End date: Jun 14, 2015,

The public-private consortium composed of complementary SMEs, academic and clinical centers of excellence and EMEA as partner proposes SAFE-T (Safer And Easter Evidence-based Iranslation) project for the establishment of a biomarker (BM) qualification process and its validation in clinical biomarker studies designed for the translation, performance testing and eventual regulatory qualifIcatIon of ...
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Active Constraints Technologies for Ill-defined or Volatile Environments (ACTIVE)

Start date: Apr 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

Description Active Constraints Technologies in Neurosurgery for Ill-defined or Volatile Environments The ACTIVE project exploits ICT and other engineering methods and technologies for the design and development of an integrated redundant robotic platform for neurosurgery. A light and agile redunda ...
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Wireless Insole for Independent and Safe Elderly Living (WIISEL)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

... the evolution of the patient, to assess if he correctly follows the rehabilitation programme or if he returns to bad habits that increase the risk of falling. If this occurs, an alert is sent immediately to the responsible caregiver. Thus the system provides security to the elderly and reduces their fear of falling, directly improving their quality of life.
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Closed-loop system for personalized and at-home rehabilitation of people with Parkinson's Disease (CuPiD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2011, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

...ive function and debilitating PD symptoms such as freezing of gait. Key components of the CuPiD solution are: 1) a home-based rehabilitation system (based on unobtrusive wearable sensors, on-board intelligence for real-time biofeedback, virtual reality, and modular, multi-modal restitution interfaces); and 2) an intelligent telemedicine infrastructure for remote monitoring and supervision of the ...
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A Modular Nanosystems Platform for Advanced Cancer Management: Nano-vehicles; Tumor Targeting and Penetration Agents; Molecular Imaging, Degradome based Therapy (SAVEME)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

SaveMe project will address current urgent needs for pancreatic cancer diagnosis and treatment by exploiting partners’ expertise and most recent research achievements for the design and development of novel modular nanosystems platform integrating new functionalized nano-core particles and active agents. The modular platform will enable the design of diverse active nanosystems per diagnostic or th ...
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Impact of Specific Antibiotic Therapies on the prevalence of hUman host ResistaNt bacteria (SATURN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

...transmission of AMR in different environments, by combining analyses of molecular, individual patient-level and ecologic data. The anticipated results may guide clinical and policy decisions to ultimately reduce the burden of AMR in Europe."
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Rendering environmental pathogens sensitive to antibiotics prior to infection (Restoring sensitivit)

Start date: Sep 1, 2010, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

...ic phages will be engineered with genes conferring sensitivity to an antibiotic of choice in a dominant fashion and small RNAs that target preferred resistance genes. Including a resistance marker to tellurite, a compound toxic to bacteria, will be used to generate a selective pressure, enriching for pathogens that harbor the phages. Genetic systems and molecular biology techniques will be used to ...
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Improvement in Postoperative PAIN OUTcome (PAIN-OUT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

The main objective of the proposed project is to develop and to validate a system for measurement and feedback of outcome quality and support of decision making. The project will be executed in the areas of postoperative pain management which serves as an example for other fields of medicine with a high variation of care. The project will provide the medical community with a unique, user-friendly ...
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