Training the next generation of researchers
ChromDesign is an innovative and interdisciplinary network of 10 European academic and private institutions. Our aim is to characterise how 3D chromatin organisation affects gene regulation during cellular differentiation and in several human disorders. ChromDesign’s main focus is to investigate...
Coordinator: Luciano Di Croce (CRG, Spain)
Solving the unsolved Rare Diseases
Patients with a rare disease generally go through a long and arduous process, sometimes lasting ten or fifteen years (also known as the rare disease odyssey), before finding a physician who knows what is wrong with them. Scientific advances can also take a long time, as it is difficult to find...
Coordinator: Olaf Riess, Holm Graessner (Tübingen, Germany)
SPIDIA for Personalized Medicine - Standardisation of generic Pre-analytical procedures for In-vitro DIAgnostics for Personalized Medicine
SPIDIA4P is a 48-month project funded by the European Commission under de H2020 program that brings together key experts of 19 stakeholder organisations, with the needed critical mass in knowledge on pre-analytical and analytical procedures, on European and international standardisation...
Coordinator: Uwe Oelmüller
Breast CAncer STratification - Understanding the determinants of risk and prognosis of molecular breast cancer subtypes. The aim of B-CAST is to identify women at moderate to high risk of breast cancer, the subtype of cancer that is most likely to develo
The B-CAST project (Breast CAncer STratification) is coordinated by the Netherlands Cancer Institute Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek and it will be conducted over five years (until September 2020). Breast tumours are heterogeneous, and result from the complex interplay of multiple lifestyle/environmental...
Coordinator: Marjanka Schmidt
A distributed infrastructure for life-science information - Building a sustainable European infrastructure for biological information, supporting life science research and its translation to medicine, agriculture, bioindustries and society
From September 2015, ‘ELIXIR-EXCELERATE’ is facilitating the integration of Europe’s bioinformatics resources, supporting all sectors of life-science R&D. It will deliver excellence to ELIXIR’s users by fast-tracking the development and deployment of essential data services. EXCELERATE funding...
Coordinator: Niklas Bloomberg
The Genomic study of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia
The International Cancer Genome Consortium is an international effort to establish a comprehensive descriptionof genomic, transcriptomic and epigenomic changes in50 different tumor types and/or subtypes which are of clinical and societal importance across the globe. Spain’scontribution to the ICGC...
Coordinator: Elias Campo & Carlos López-Otín

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