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Jean Monnet Centre for Europe in the World at King's College London

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...hes to the EU’s foreign policy and external relations such as external relations law, political science, and history. The JMCE would be exceptionally well-placed to exploit the unique opportunities King’s London location offers in terms of engaging scholars, students, officials, civil society, business, practitioners and citizens from all over the world in debates about the regional and global cha ...
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From German Psychology to British Poetics: the Reception of Empirical Psychology and Phrenology in British Literary Culture, 1780-1880 (Psychology & Poetics)

Start date: Jul 18, 2011, End date: Jul 17, 2013,

... level. The applicant Dr Monika Class seeks not only to restart her career after a two-year break but to reinforce existing, and acquire new competences through the post-doctoral training provided by King’s College’s Centre for the Humanities and Health in London under the supervision of Dr Neil Vickers. The project will form part of the Centre’s innovative research programme in Medical Humanities ...
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Deconstructing the stem cell niche in human interfollicular epidermis in vitro (S.CE.N.E.)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

"Within adult tissues, stem cell properties are heavily influenced by their microenvironment, or niche. In the niche, stem cells integrate a complex array of extrinsic molecular signals that, in concert with cell-intrinsic regulatory networks, control self-renewal and differentiation in response to physiologic demands. By studying adult human epidermal stem cells ex vivo using artificial microenvi ...
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New technologies to support eating in Anorexia Nervosa: a neuroimaging study (ET4AN)

Start date: Nov 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2014,

...nt of the aims of the proposed fellowship will be facilitated by the fact that the candidate is well qualified; the project is being conducted within a large and established eating disorders group in King’s College London and lastly, because it will done in conjunction with a multidisciplinary and international team."
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New chemical platforms for targeted radiopharmaceuticals based on generator-produced metal isotopes (Radiopharm Metal Iso)

Start date: Mar 1, 2013, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

.... These new radiochemical platforms for generator-produced isotopes will be developed with a view to clinical translation in the multidisciplinary environment at the Division of Imaging Sciences, King’s College London.
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Ego-media: The impact of new media on forms and practices of self-presentation (EGO-MEDIA)

Start date: May 1, 2014, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

...ubjectivity, individuality, self-intelligibility, agency, creativity, privacy, and sociability. Based in the interdisciplinary Centre for Life-Writing Research in the School of Arts and Humanities at King’s College London, it will combine a humanistic, life-writing theory approach with an interdisciplinary methodology, in collaboration with researchers from Sociolinguistics, Culture Media and Crea ...
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A digital edition of the fragments of Demetrios of Scepis (Demetrios of Scepsis)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2013,

The proposal is a resubmission of a project evaluated under the same name in the IEF-call 2010. The resubmission is motivated by the fact that the training at the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London is absolutely necessary for the fulfilment of the project.The project's first aim is the creation of an online edition of the fragments of Demetrios of Scepsis, a Greek author fro ...
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Byzantine seals in a digital age: new tools for European research (Digiseal)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2017,

The study of the Christian medieval eastern empire (Byzantium) can not rely on resources in manuscript form: as in most ancient and medieval societies, documents were authenticated by sealings, and unlike those documents, today lost, seals survived in large quantities, largely in museums, libraries and private collections. The seals contain descriptions of the persons responsible and their chosen ...
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The War on Music. Heritage, Islam and Peacekeeping in relation to the Islamist attacks in Mali (WARMUSIC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

...) the global protection policies of the so-called “intangible heritage”. In addition, it aims at 3) building a new paradigm for post-conflict reconstruction and peacekeeping in collaboration with King’s College London experts and with international organizations (Secondment). The research develops around a central case-study: the attacks on music (formal interdictions, threats to musicians, destru ...
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How the brain creates Mutual Understanding during Social InteraCtion (MUSIC)

Start date: Dec 31, 2016, End date: Dec 30, 2019,

...al understanding, which I will translate into testable accounts of communicative alterations in a range of neurological and psychiatric disorders, during the return phase at the Donders Institute and King’s College London.
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Valuing Innovation Options and Policy Flexibility Under Uncertainty (INNOVATIONOPTIONS)

Start date: Aug 1, 2016, End date: Jul 31, 2019,

This proposal consists of a two-year outgoing phase (1.5 years at MIT and 6-month secondment at LUISS U. in Italy) and one-year re-integration phase at King’s College London. Following advanced innovation training, it aims to develop new ideas and frameworks based on real options theory to appraise innovation options and policy flexibility. Besides training/development and dissemination, the propo ...
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ScienceGirlsTeenage girls as co-creators of science learning engagement

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2018,

...ons as knowledge partners and a quality assurance partner with 15 years of EU experience.Leading gender-sensitive science researcher Professor Louise Archer from the King’s College in London has signed an agreement to collaborate with the project.A strong and most dynamic climax in the project will be the 5 days SCIENCEGIRLS SCIENCE VISION ENCOUNTER mobility, along which the participating girls wi ...
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European best practices to support children with high potential and to access training for gifted children with disabilities - Gifted (for) you

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...ho are children with special educational needs and high social risk, a scientific study carried out in Great Britain in 2010 (in which took part Robert Plomin, a professor of behavioral genetics at King’s College, London, and one of the experts involved in the present project), reports that only 3% of the high potential children do succeed in life according to social norms. Given these problems an ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The aim of the project was to increase the interntionalisation of our PhD courses in order to broaden the scientific horizon of students. SISSA has already established a large number of international agreements (more than 200) but they are not mainly focused on students. As we needed appropriate tools to establish contacts with new EU partners, the ERASMUS+ initiative seemed to be the right way. T ...
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Delivering E Learning Accreditation to Reduce Occupational Stress in Employment (DE LA ROSE)

...re professionals, mental health and social care service providers and representative organisations within the field from across Europe. The partners are: Waterford Institute of Technology, (Ireland); King’s College, University of London (UK); Karl Franzens Univertsity, Graz (Austria); ScuolaUniversitariaProfessionale della Svizzera Italian (Switzerland); European Association of Service Providers f ...
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Live Cinema EU

Start date: Oct 23, 2016, End date: Oct 22, 2017,

...t aims to replicate the success of such success across Europe, utilising European films.Three European film festival partners, plus Hull 2017 UK City of Culture, will work with Live Cinema UK, King’s College London and the University of Brighton over a 1 year period in the area of live cinema. The participating festivals demonstrate a history of exciting screening locations and live soundtrack ev ...
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A Systems medicine approach to chronic inflammatory disease (SYSCID)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Mar 31, 2022,

"The SYSCID consortium aims to develop a systems medicine approach for disease prediction in CID. We will focus on three major CID indications with distinct characteristics, yet a large overlap of their molecular risk map: inflammatory bowel disease, systemic lupus erythematodes and rheumatoid arthritis. We have joined 15 partners from major cohorts and initiatives in Europe (e.g.IHEC, ICGC, Twins ...
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Particle-Surface Interactions in Near Field Optics: Spin-orbit Effects of Light and Optical/Casimir Forces (PSINFONI)

Start date: Mar 1, 2017, End date: Feb 28, 2022,

PSINFONI aims to open new avenues of research in ultrafast routing and polarization synthesis of light in nanophotonics, and in the manipulation, sorting, levitation and trapping of nanoparticles, molecules, or single atoms near novel nanomaterial surfaces. To this end, we will explore the fundamentals and applications of a range of novel nanophotonic phenomena: (i) spin-orbit interactions of ligh ...
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Mechanical control of biological function (MECHANO-CONTROL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

Mechanical forces transmitted through specific molecular bonds drive biological function, and their understanding and control hold an uncharted potential in oncology, regenerative medicine and biomaterial design. However, this potential has not been realised, because it requires developing and integrating disparate technologies to measure and manipulate mechanical and adhesive properties from the ...
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Authority and Innovation in Early Franciscan Thought (c. 1220-56) (INNOVATION)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2021,

INNOVATION anticipates a breakthrough in scholarly understanding of the medieval origins of modern Western philosophy. This breakthrough will be achieved by exposing the pioneering nature of early thirteenth-century Franciscan thought and its pivotal significance for the subsequent formation of the Western philosophical identity. The work of early Franciscans has largely been neglected in scholarl ...
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Brain network based stratification of mental illness (STRATIFY)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

To reduce the burden of mental disorders it is a formidable aim to identify widely applicable disease markers based on neural processes, which predict psychopathology and allow for targeted interventions. We will generate a neurobehavioural framework for stratification of psychopathology by characterising links between network properties of brain function and structure and reinforcement–related be ...
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Higgs bundles: Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and Geometry (HIGGSBNDL)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

String theory provides a unified description of particle physics and gravity, within a consistent theory of quantum gravity. The goal of this research is to develop both the phenomenological implications as well as conceptual foundations of string theory and its non-perturbative completions, M- and F-theory. Both, seemingly independent, questions are deeply connected to a mathematical structure, t ...
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Dissecting the cellular mechanics of contact inhibition of locomotion (CIL2015)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

Our aim is to dissect the mechanisms of contact inhibition of locomotion (CIL), a process whereby migrating cells collide and repel each other, as it is now clear that CIL is pivotal to understanding embryogenesis and pathologies such as cancer. We have developed an in vivo model using Drosophila macrophages (hemocytes), along with novel analytical tools, to examine the contact inhibition response ...
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Mitochondrial DNA degradation and sterile inflammation in the heart (RAMBO)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

Heart failure is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries including EU. Novel and efficient therapeutics to treat patient with heart failure have to be developed. Mitochondria are subcellular organelles that produce energy and dynamic organelles that fuse and divide. Dysregulated mitochondrial activity results in generation of free radicals which cause damage to cellular ...
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Quantum Black Holes: A macroscopic window into the microstructure of gravity (QBH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2016, End date: Aug 31, 2021,

The thermodynamic behavior of black holes is a precious clue in unravelling the microscopic structure of quantum gravity.High precision computations of quantum black hole entropy provide a new window into the fundamental microscopic theory of gravity and its deviations from classical general relativity. Traditional methods of quantum field theory have proved to be not well-suited to perform these ...
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Towards Early Molecular Diagnostics of Schizophrenia (SZ_TEST)

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

Schizophrenia (SZ) is a severe mental disorder affecting more than 0.7% of the adult population. One of the most disabling and emotionally devastating illnesses known to man, SZ is also associated with considerable socioeconomic burden. In general, the chronic nature and the high degree of patient disability make SZ the fourth leading cause of disease burden across the globe with the management co ...
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Comorbid Conditions of Attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (CoCA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

Understanding mechanisms underlying comorbid disorders poses a challenge for developing precision medicine tools. Psychiatric disorders are highly comorbid, and are among the last areas of medicine, where classification is driven by phenomenology rather than pathophysiology. We will study comorbidity between the most frequent psychiatric conditions, ADHD, mood/anxiety, and substance use disorders, ...
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Liaison in Scientific Training for European auditory Neuroscience (LISTEN)

Start date: Dec 1, 2016, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

This ITN will train 10 ESRs to meet the urgent need for translation of Auditory Neuroscience into commercial and pharmaceutical products to treat hearing disorders including tinnitus. Tinnitus is the debilitating perception of imaginary sound that is often associated with hearing loss. This Liaison in Scientific Training for European auditory Neuroscience (LISTEN) is a consortium of top hearing sc ...
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Common mechanisms and pathways in Stroke and Alzheimer's disease. (CoSTREAM)

Start date: Dec 1, 2015, End date: Nov 30, 2020,

Common mechanisms and pathways in Stroke and Alzheimer's disease.It has long been recognized that stroke and (Alzheimer’s Disease) AD often co-occur and have an overlapping pathogenesis. As such, these two diseases are not considered fellow travelers, but rather partners in crime. This multidisciplinary consortium includes epidemiologists, geneticists, radiologists, neurologists with a longstandin ...
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European AIDS Vaccine Initiative 2020 (EAVI2020)

Start date: Nov 1, 2015, End date: Oct 31, 2020,

HIV-1 is responsible for a global pandemic of 35 million people, and continues to spread at a rate of >2 million new infections/year. It is widely acknowledged that a protective vaccine would be the most effective means to reduce HIV-1 spread and ultimately eliminate the pandemic, while a therapeutic vaccine may help mitigate the clinical course of disease and lead to strategies of viral eradicati ...
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REACH: Risk, Resilience, Ethnicity and AdolesCent Mental Health (REACH)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

The overarching aim of REACH is to examine groundbreaking questions on the developmental origins of psychosis in migrant and minority ethnic populations using a highly innovative accelerated cohort study of adolescents, to be conducted in south London (UK). It has been known for over 50 years that the incidence of psychotic disorders is high in many migrant and minority ethnic groups across many c ...
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The values of French language and literature in the European Middle Ages (TVOF)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

Two questions about linguistic identity lie at the heart of this project. What is the relation historically between language and identity in Europe? How are cognate languages demarcated from each other? Normative models of national languages helped shape Europe. Yet they did not become hegemonic until the 19th century. Indeed, they were imposed (not always successfully) on a linguistic map of Euro ...
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Dark Matter and the Early Universe in the LHC Era (DARKHORIZONS)

Start date: Sep 1, 2015, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

The discovery of a Higgs like particle in its first science run shows that we are truly in the LHC era and when collisions resume we will learn more about the physics of the TeV scale. There are two main areas at the interface of particle physics and cosmology that the LHC will shed light on - If dark matter is a thermal relic then we naturally expect new particle physics close to this TeV energy ...
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Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies (ATHLOS)

Start date: May 1, 2015, End date: Apr 30, 2020,

The objective of the ATHLOS Project is to achieve a better understanding of ageing by identifying patterns of healthy ageing pathways or trajectories, the determinants of those patterns, the critical points in time when changes in trajectories are produced, and to propose timely clinical and public health interventions to optimise healthy ageing. Moreover, a new definition of ‘old age’ based on ma ...
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Intelligent Parkinson eaRly detectiOn Guiding NOvel Supportive InterventionS (i-PROGNOSIS)

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

Transition from healthy status to Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is vaguely tractable, since symptoms can be so subtle in the early stages that they go unnoticed. Lack of biomarkers and/or findings on routine MRI and CT scans, PD is left undiagnosed for years, gradually affecting the life of over 6.5 million of older adults (>55-60 yrs) worldwide, increasing the risk of their health deterioration. Epide ...
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Translating neuroimaging findings from research into clinical practice (PSYSCAN)

Start date: Feb 1, 2014, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

Abstract 9Neuroimaging (NI) has enormous potential to improve the clinical care of patients with psychiatric disorders, but has yet to deliver. The PSYSCAN project will address this issue directly by developing a NI-based tool that will help clinicians resolve key clinical issues in the management of patients with psychotic disorders. Clinicians will use the tool to assess patients with a standard ...
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DARIAH ERIC Sustainability Refined (DESIR)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Europe has a long and rich tradition as a centre for the arts and humanities. However, the digital transformation poses challenges to the arts and humanities research landscape all over the world. Responding to these challenges the Digital Research Infrastructure for Arts and Humanities (DARIAH) was launched as a pan-European network and research infrastructure. After expansion and consolidation, ...
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PROMOTING MENTAL WELLBEING IN THE AGEING URBAN POPULATION: DETERMINANTS, POLICIES AND INTERVENTIONS IN EUROPEAN CITIES (MINDMAP)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Major depressive disorder, dementia, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse affect a substantial part of the European older population. Over 70% of Europeans reside in cities, and this percentage will increase in the next decades. Urbanization and ageing have enormous implications for public mental health. Cities pose major challenges for older citizens, but also offer opportunities for the design ...
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Imaging the Force of Cancer (FORCE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality in EU member states with ~90% of all cancer deaths caused by metastatic spread. Despite its significance, measuring metastatic potential as well as potential indicators of therapy efficacy remain unmet clinical challenges. Recently, it has been demonstrated in vitro, that aggressive metastatic cells pull on their surroundings suggesting that metastat ...
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