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Targeting cancer using evolutionary refined pathogen derived antigens (MalOnco)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2019,

We have recently discovered a malaria protein which has shown a high potential in cancer treatment. In pregnant women, malaria infected red blood cells express a protein that binds to a distinct carbohydrate structure present only on cells of the maternal side of the placental circulation, but not elsewhere in the vasculature. This highly evolved binding system enables the parasite to evade cleara ...
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The calm before the storm: Pre-stellar cores as Astrophysical Laboratories (PALs)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2018,

"Stars like our Sun and planets like our Earth form in dense regions within interstellar molecular clouds, called pre-stellar cores (PSCs). PSCs provide the initial conditions in the process of star and planet formation, but large uncertainties exist concerning basic astrophysical processes and parameters, such as surface chemistry, the cosmic-ray ionization rate, the H2 ortho-to-para ratio, the ...
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Systems Biology to Identify Molecular Targets for Vascular Disease Treatment (SYSVASC)

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

Asymptomatic vascular damage accumulates for years before patients are identified and subjected to therapeutic measures. The limited knowledge on early vascular disease pathophysiology is reflected in the lack of therapeutic options. SysVasc aims to overcome this limitation by mounting a comprehensive systems medicine approach to elucidate pathological mechanisms, which will yield molecular target ...
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Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience Research Network (CIPRNet)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The Critical Infrastructure Preparedness and Resilience Research Network or CIPRNet establishes a Network of Excellence in Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) R&D for a wide range of stakeholders including (multi)national emergency management, critical infrastructure (CI) operators, policy makers, and the society.CIPRNet builds a long-lasting, durable virtual centre of shared and integrated k ...
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Promoting a functional and comparative understanding of the conifer genome- implementing applied aspects for more productive and adapted forests (PROCOGEN)

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

In the midst of a climatic change scenario, the genetics of adaptive response in conifers becomes essential to ensure a sustainable management of genetic resources and an effective breeding. Conifers are the target of major tree breeding efforts worldwide. Advances in molecular technologies, such as next-generation DNA sequencing technologies, could have an enormous impact on the rate of progres ...
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Internet-based Structural Health Monitoring System (ISMS)

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

"Structural health monitoring (SHM) and non-intrusive damage detection techniques have become important research topics - motivated by the potential life-safety and very large potential economic impact of the technologies with respect to their earthquake/ disaster mitigation potential and their role as key enabling technology of condition-based maintenance practices. The potential to save thousand ...
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New Multi-HAzard and MulTi-RIsK Assessment MethodS for Europe (MATRIX)

Start date: Oct 1, 2010, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

Across Europe, people suffer losses not just from single hazards, but also from multiple events in combination. In both their occurrence and their consequences, different hazards are often causally related. Classes of interactions include triggered events, cascade effects, and rapid increases of vulnerability during successive hazards. Effective and efficient risk reduction, therefore, often needs ...
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Industrial Crops producing added value Oils for Novel chemicals (ICON)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Feb 28, 2013,

Replacing fossil oil with renewable resources is perhaps the most urgent need and the most challenging task that human society faces today. Cracking fossil hydrocarbons and building the desired chemicals with advanced organic chemistry usually requires many times more energy than is contained in the final product. Thus, using plant material in the chemical industry does not only replace the fossil ...
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Forest ecosystem genomics research: supporting Transatlantic Cooperation (FORESTTRAC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Apr 30, 2012,

The main aim of FoResTTraC is to prepare future coordinated research plans, via a strategic research roadmap, between Europe and North America regarding adaptation of forest trees to climate changes, linking different disciplines: ecology, genetics, genomics and evolution. FoResTTraC brings together a critical mass of research expertise in these disciplines on both sides of the Atlantic with 6 lea ...
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S2-L01 Transatlantic Partnership for Excellence in Engineering (TEE Partnership)

Start date: Jul 1, 2011,

Project objective:The main objective of the TEE Partnership is to encourage structured cooperation at higher education level between European, US and Canadian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), increasing the visibility of European higher education in the US and Canada and fostering interinstitutional relations and sustainable international cooperation between participating HEIs. It will contri ...
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Canadian and European Cities in MegaRegions: Planning for the Global World

Start date: Sep 16, 2010,

The Project will create an academic concentration or certificate in Canadian-European urban studies that includes a new comparative course on MegaRegions. Moreover, it will offer online, web-based delivery and will be developed with input from all the participating institutions. The certificate will represent an important contribution to knowledge development and training for urban planners. Stude ...
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TRANSatlantic FORestry Master

Start date: Sep 16, 2010,

This Transatlantic Degree Partnership project is a follow-up of our successful EC and HRSDC funded (2005-2008) TRANSFOR program which supported student exchanges in the area of resource and environmental management. Under TRANSFOR-M we will educate students in a 2 year dual degree program in modern sustainable management that is tempered by attention to cultural and situational differences. They w ...
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