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SNORD104 gene-encoded microRNA and its role in immune homeostasis (SNORD104 microRNA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

MicroRNAs constitute an essential, evolutionary conserved mechanism of posttranscriptional gene expression regulation and thereby affect almost all biological processes including immune functions. In a comprehensive small RNA profiling study we identified a new, Snord104-derived microRNA, miR-145561, which is highly expressed in activated mature lymphocytes. To investigate the role of this lymphoc ...
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Synthesis of systematic resources (SYNTHESYS3)

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

SYNTHESYS3 will create an accessible, integrated European resource for researchers in the natural sciences in Europe and globally. Building on the success of the previous SYNTHESYS IA, the NA will focus on improving collections management of new physical and virtual collections. By focusing the JRA on extracting and enhancing data from digitised collections, SYNTHESYS3 will increase the accessibil ...
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SECURE EUROPEAN COMMON INFORMATION SPACE FOR THE INTEROPERABILITY OF FIRST RESPONDERS AND POLICE AUTHORITIES (SECTOR)

Start date: Jul 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

The management of crisis is one of the great challenges of the 21st century. The ever growing human, economic and environmental losses due to natural and man-made disasters evidence the need for a systematic approach to the management of crisis. A multi-disciplinary understanding and disaster risk management is required. In such situations, Collaborative Crisis Management (CCM) is usually coordina ...
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Enhanced Energy Efficiency and Comfort by Smart Light Transmittance Control (EELICON)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Jun 30, 2017,

EELICON is concerned with an innovative switchable light transmittance technology developed previously in projects co-funded by the EU Framework Programmes. The core of this development are mechanically flexible and light-weight electrochromic (EC) film devices based on a conductive polymer nanocomposite technology with a unique property profile far beyond the current state-of-the art, opening the ...
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Improved Lifetime of Automotive Application Fuel Cells with ultra low Pt-loading (IMPACT)

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

"The main objective of the planned project IMPACT is to increase the life-time of fuel cells with membrane-electrode assemblies containing ultra low Pt-loading (< 0.2 mg cm-2) for automotive applications. The economic requirements to reduce Pt loading leads to the challenge to maintain durability and performance, an aspect which has not been addressed sufficiently in public projects and studies. A ...
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Regulation of cell growth and division by selective degradation mechanisms (RUBINET)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2016,

Cell growth and division are tightly regulated by phosphorylation and selective degradation of cellular components. Whereas autophagy is mainly responsible to eliminate long-lived proteins and organelles, the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) rapidly degrades proteins when fast adaptation is needed. Defects in these degradation systems accounts for numerous human diseases, including cancer, muscle ...
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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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DEVELOPMENT OF NEW UV LASER FOR CUSTOMIZATION AT INDUSTRIAL LEVEL THROUGH HIGH QUALITY MARKING ON DIFFERNT MATERIALS (UV-Marking)

Start date: Jul 1, 2012, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

The future in manufacturing is oriented to more flexible and adaptable systems. Customization is also a great challenge and a way of giving added value to the products. And aesthetic personalization is one of the main ways for achieving customization.UV-Marking project aims at demonstrating that unitary customization (individual configurations/designs of each customer) is possible, by developing a ...
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Multimodal Regulation of Cullin-RING Ligases by CSN (CSN)

Start date: May 1, 2013, End date: Apr 30, 2015,

"The COP9 Signalosome (CSN) is an eight-subunit molecular machine conserved in eukaryotes. Defects in CSN function are reported in human disorders and a CSN-related pathway recently emerged as a promising cancer drug target. CSN regulates embryonic development, DNA repair, cell cycle checkpoint progression and autophagy. The remarkable pleiotropy of CSN is partially explained through its enzymatic ...
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The Role of Atg8 Posttranslational Modifications in Autophagy (AS_ETHZ_IEF_2012)

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

"Autophagy is an important cellular degradation pathway required for eukaryotic protein homeostasis. Deregulation of autophagy has been shown to cause the development of various human pathologies, including aggregation diseases and cancer. Autophagy involves the formation of double-membrane vesicles, called autophagosomes, which sequester portions of the cytosol (general autophagy) or whole protei ...
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Implant Direct

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2014,

ImplantDirect will create a cost-effective, faster manufacturing route for orthopaedic, maxillofacial or trauma implants, tailored to the individual needs of patients. The overall project aims are to improve the quality of the implants, reduce the recovery time, improve the quality of life for the patients and reduce the healthcare costs. This will be achieved by allowing surgeons to personalise ...
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Understanding the cytotoxicity of aberrantly folded proteins in neurodegeneration (FoldTox)

Start date: Mar 1, 2011, End date: Feb 28, 2014,

An advanced systems biology approach will be applied to understanding the molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative cytotoxicity, triggered by aberrantly folded proteins. Three established cellular models of cytotoxicty of the misfolding-prone proteins synuclein, TPD-43 and the Abeta peptide will be analyzed. In a discovery-phase, advanced proteome and phosphoproteome-wide screens,coupled to bio ...
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European Network for integrating novel technologies for food processing (HighTech Europe)

Start date: May 1, 2009, End date: Dec 31, 2013,

The Network of Excellence HighTech Europe facilitates the implementation of high-tech processing at industrial scale via strongly connected regional knowledge transfer chains consisting of basic-applied science centres (12 in total), industry federations (4), Innovation Relay Centre (1) and SMEs (5). Its main aim is to identify, develop and demonstrate potential, cost-efficient, innovations to be ...
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Environmental Chemoinformatics (ECO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

"The implementation of the new EU legislation concerning the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemicals (REACH) requires demonstration of the safe manufacture of chemicals and their safe use throughout the supply chain. REACH encourages development of new in vitro test methods and replacement of animal tests wherever possible by alternative methods. These goals are not ac ...
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Transmission system operation with large penetration of Wind and other renewable Electricity sources in Networks by means of innovative Tools and Integrated Energy Solutions (TWENTIES)

Start date: Apr 1, 2010, End date: Sep 30, 2013,

A group of 6 Transmission System Operators (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany The Netherlands and Spain) with 2 generator companies, 5 manufacturers and research organisations, propose 6 demonstration projects to remove, in 3 years, several barriers which prevent the electric system from welcoming more wind electricity, and wind electricity from contributing more to the electric system. The full s ...
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OLIGOPEPTIDASE INHIBITORS IN BRAIN FUNCTION AND DYSFUNCTION: TOWARDS NEW THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES FOR NEUROPROTECTION (NEUROPRO)

Start date: Oct 1, 2008, End date: Sep 30, 2012,

"At present more than 5 million people in the EU suffer from dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases and that number will grow as the average age of the population continues to increase. The efficacy of current medicines is limited and new therapeutic targets are sorely needed. Several independent lines of evidence have established an important role of prolyl oligopeptidase (PREP) in brain f ...
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Novel technology for HIgh-PERformance piezoelectric Actuators (HIPER-Act)

Start date: Sep 1, 2008, End date: Aug 31, 2012,

Piezoelectric multilayer actuators performance and reliability needs to be improved to meet the growing demand from end-users with many different types of applications. The high production costs and problems related to obtaining reliable components explain that the utilization of piezo actuators up to now is far from having reached its full potential. Noliac and its partners for the IP are proposi ...
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European observatory for science-based and economic expert analysis of nanotechnologies, cognisant of barriers and risks, to engage with relevant stakeholders regarding benefits and opportunities (observatoryNANO)

Start date: Apr 1, 2008, End date: Mar 31, 2012,

observatoryNANO brings together leading EU organizations who collectively have expertise in the technological; economic; societal/ethical; health, safety, and environmental analysis of nanotechnologies. Its primary aim is to develop appropriate methodologies to link scientific and technological development of nanotechnologies with socio-economic impacts. Both of these aspects will be enhanced by e ...
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"The Contribution of Public and Private Services to European Growth and Welfare, and the Role of Public-Private Innovation Networks" (SERVPPIN)

Start date: Feb 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

"Services are the dominant economic sector in modern economies and are a crucial component of competitiveness strategy and welfare in Europe. In the past public and private services have been studied in isolation of one another. At best this is misleading. At worst it produces a false understanding of the drivers, dynamics, and impact of services. The ServPPIN project addresses this problem by ana ...
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Hydraulic Actuator for Valves in Brewery, Dairy and Pharmaceutical Industries (HYDRACT)

Start date: Jun 1, 2008, End date: Jan 31, 2011,

The overall project objective is the development of an innovative hydraulic actuator based on sterile water to operate sanitary valves with a primary application in the brewery, dairy, and pharmaceutical industries. The final product will have clear advantages to current pneumatic process machinery in these industries, both in terms of performance, food safety, and in particular with regard to ene ...
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