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A structured controlled vocabulary of the anatomy of mosquitoes.

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• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Consortium with the goal of repairing damaged nerve trunks that will engage in the preclinical development of an artificial biohybrid nerve device for the regenerative treatment of traumatic injuries of peripheral nerves. Based on the extensive basic and clinical experience within this consortium the artificial nerve device will be developed together with standardized application and evaluation parameters. A key objective of this study is to generate a protocol that serves as a template for future clinical trials in the regenerative therapy of damaged peripheral nerves. The results of the multidisciplinary research will feed into the establishment of artificial biohybrid devices as stand alone alternatives to accepted standard procedures and tools. Furthermore, standardized application guidelines and evaluation parameters will be set up to enable continuous progress and evaluation of the outcome of clinical application.

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• Consortia-pedia, a FasterCures Project
• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

A consortium working towards the definition and implementation of a clear strategy that tackles the necessary efforts of Big Data (in terms of research and innovation) while also providing supporting actions for the successful implementation of the Big Data economy. Building an industrial community around Big Data in Europe is the priority of this project, together with setting up the necessary collaboration and dissemination infrastructure to link technology suppliers, integrators and leading user organizations.

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• Consortia-pedia, a FasterCures Project
• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Ontology that provides a reference for describing an exercise in terms of functional movements, engaged musculoskeletal system parts, related equipment or monitoring devices, intended health outcomes, as well as target ailments for which the exercise might be employed as a treatment or preventative measure.

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• SciCrunch
• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Originally established as a research institute for tuberculosis, it now performs applied, basic research in the field of allergies and asthma. Research activities are focused on immune-pathological mechanisms of allergic, asthmatic and cutaneous inflammations and the structural basis and peculiarities of allergens, as well as development of novel tools for the diagnosis and treatment of allergic disease.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Project that aims to develop new treatment strategies based on knowledge of cellular dysfunction in diabetes. They will perform a detailed organelle diagnosis based on both focused and systems biology approaches, which will provide the scientific rationale for the design of specific interventions to boost the capacity of beta cells and brown adipocytes to regain homeostatic control. They propose that only by understanding the complex molecular mechanisms triggering cellular dysfunction in diabetes, and by integrating this knowledge at the systems level, will it be possible to develop interventional therapies that protect and restore beta cell and (Brown adipose tissue) BAT function. The ultimate goal is to offer individual therapeutic choices based on both genetic information and organelle diagnosis.

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• Consortia-pedia, a FasterCures Project
• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

The Electrophysiology Analysis Toolkit (Elephant) is a Python library that provides a modular framework for the analysis of experimental and simulated neuronal activity data, such as spike trains, local field potentials, and intracellular data. Elephant builds on the Neo data model to facilitate usability, to enable interoperability, and to support data from dozens of file formats and network simulation tools. Its analysis functions are continuously validated against reference implementations and reports in the literature. Visualizations of analysis results are made available via the Viziphant companion library. Elephant aims to act as a platform for sharing analysis methods across the field.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Consortium to generate complete catalogs of somatic mutations in 500 breast cancers, of the ER+ve HER2- subclass, under the International Cancer Genome Consortium model by high coverage, shotgun genome sequencing of both tumor and normal DNA. The strategy is to collect, store, review, quality control and extract DNA and RNA from breast cancer and normal tissues from 500 ER+, HER2- breast cancer cases which will be subjected to a coordinated series of genomic analyses including whole genome shotgun sequencing, genome-wide copy number analysis, mRNA expression analysis, miRNA expression analysis and genome-wide methylation analysis. A comprehensive catalogue of somatic mutations will be generated from each cancer. Somatic mutation catalogues from the 500 cancers will be analysed and integrated with expression and methylation data to identify novel cancer genes, characterize subverted biological pathways that are operative, describe patterns of somatic mutation and explore early translational applications of personalized somatic genomic data for patients with ER+, HER2- breast cancer. The results will impact the understanding of the causes and biology of breast cancer and will lead to major advances in detection, prevention and treatment in one of the most common diseases and causes of death in the developed world. The Consortium has completed a number of investigative exercises into the experimental protocols and technological practices relating to whole genome sequencing, epigenetics and transcriptomics including: * Completion of extensive testing of current RNA-seq protocol. * Designed and implemented a new, improved RNA-seq protocol which utilizes RNA samples regardless of their RNA Integrity Number. * Completed pilot testing of the Infinium 450k array and associated bi-sulfite sequencing. * Refined the whole genome sequencing library production protocols to produce more robust libraries. * Improved the primary variant-calling algorithms (for substitutions, insertions / deletions and rearrangements) * Developed new analytical algorithms to explore the resulting high-quality variants. As such, variant calling of whole genome sequencing data and secondary downstream analysis can begin in earnest in a trackable and automated fashion.

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• Consortia-pedia, a FasterCures Project
• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Project targeting vulnerable plaques causing unexpected acute myocardial infarcts and sudden cardiac deaths by identifying and validating novel drug targets as well as devising and validating diagnostic tests. It has been designed to advance the present knowledge on the role of inflammatory remodeling in the different stages of atherosclerosis. It will also provide important knowledge for the development of strategies for prevention and clinical management of vascular diseases.

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• Consortia-pedia, a FasterCures Project
• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Metathesaurus Version of Minimal Standard Terminology Digestive Endoscopy, French Translation, 2001

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• SciCrunch
• 13 years ago - by Anonymous

Consortium focused on making electronic health data more interoperable, both within and outside of Europe, with the intention to create, validate, and disseminate standard methods to test and certify electronic health solutions and services. In particular it will: Drive the adoption of recognized sets of profiles and underlying standards for eHealth interoperability, and improve the impact of the EU and International eHealth standards development process; Define and validate testing guidelines and common approaches on Interoperability Labelling and Certification processes at European and at National / Regional level. Four work packages were created to provide guidelines, recommendations and frameworks based on a set of use cases, related profiles and standards, Interoperability Quality Management System, testing guidelines and Certification process. All the deliverables will be presented for validation and promotion by organizing workshops across Europe.

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• Consortia-pedia, a FasterCures Project
• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Public medical school in Charleston, South Carolina. Opened in 1824 as small private college aimed at training physicians. One of the oldest continually operating schools of medicine in the United States and the oldest in the Deep South.

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• SciCrunch
• 17 years ago - submitted by Eddy Kim

Consortium focused on developing computer and physical models of the airway system for patients with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Developing accurate models will better predict how asthma and COPD develop, since current methods can only assess the severity of disease. They aim to bridge the gaps in clinical management of airways-based disease by providing reliable models that predict disease progression and the response to treatment for each person with asthma or COPD. A data management platform provides a secure and sustainable infrastructure that semantically integrates the clinical, physiological, genetic, and experimental data produced with existing biomedical knowledge from allied consortia and public databases. This resource will be available for analysis and modeling, and will facilitate sharing, collaboration and publication within AirPROM and with the broader community. Currently the AirPROM knowledge portal is only accessible by AirPROM partners.

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• Consortia-pedia, a FasterCures Project
• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Commercial organization that builds software for collection, management, and analysis of complex data, most typical in biomedical domain. The solutions are generic and can be used for multitude of uses and application domains.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Consortium focused on identifying the foundational pathways responsible for the aging of the brain, with a focus on Late Onset Alzheimer's disease. They aim to identify the interactions through which the aging phenotype develops in normal and in disease conditions; modeling novel pathways and their evolutionary properties to design experiments that identify druggable targets. As early steps of neurodegenerative disorders are expected to impact synapse function the project will focus in particular on pre- or postsynaptic protein networks. The concept is to identify subsets of pathways with two unique druggable hallmarks, the validation of interactions occurring locally in subregions of neurons and a human and/or primate accelerated evolutionary signature. The consortium will do this through six approaches: * identification of interacting protein networks from recent Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease-Genome Wide Association Studies (LOAD-GWAS) data, * experimental validation of interconnected networks working in subregion of a neuron (such as dendrites and dendritic spines), * inclusion of these experimentally validated networks in larger networks obtained from available databases to extend possible protein interactions, * identification of human and/or primate positive selection either in coding or in regulatory gene sequences, * manipulation of these human and/or primate accelerated evolutionary interacting proteins in human neurons derived from induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs) * modeling predictions in drosophila and novel mouse transgenic models * validation of new druggable targets and markers as a proof-of-concept towards the prevention and cure of aging cognitive defects. The scientists will share results and know-how on Late-Onset Alzheimer Disease-Genome Wide Association Studies (LOAD-GWAS) gene discovery, comparative functional genomics in mouse and drosophila models, in mouse transgenic approaches, research on human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) and their differentiation in vitro and modeling pathways with emphasis on comparative and evolutionary aspects. The four European small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) involved will bring their complementary expertise and will ensure translation of project results to clinical application.

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• Consortia-pedia, a FasterCures Project
• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Organization that drives the development of disease-modifying treatments against Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Diabetes and other protein misfolding disorders through two independently managed business units: * Contract Research: The in-vivo Contract Research Organization (CRO) helps its clients to assess the pharmacokinetics and -dynamics of their experimental treatments against Alzheimer's disease. The main focus is on efficacy testing of candidate drugs in reMYND's proprietary Alzheimer mouse models expressing the clinical APP-London allele as single transgene or in combination with clinical alleles of human PS1 and TAU. * Drug Discovery: The Drug Discovery and Development Unit (DDD) focuses on disease-modifying treatments against protein-misfolding disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (tau), Parkinson's disease (-synuclein), and Diabetes. In addition, reMYND grants licenses and markets commercial kits of RadarScreen, a technology for rapid and cost-effective identification of genotoxic liabilities in early stage drug discovery. reMYND has been substantially supported by grants from IWT and from The Michael J Fox Foundation.

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• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

An Antibody supplier

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• 14 years ago - by Anonymous

A bio-pharmaceutical company with a focus on research and development of new targets & therapies against proliferative diseases. Its current development program is based on inecalcitol, a vitamin D receptor agonist being studied in three potential indications: * alone in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia * in combination with imatinib in chronic myeloid leukaemia * in prostate cancer, for use with current standards of care Hybrigenics'' research program investigates the action of enzymes called Deubiquitinating Enzymes (DUBs) in the recycling of onco-proteins and the utility of proprietary patented DUB inhibitors against various cancer indications. Hybrigenics Services, a Hybrigenics subsidiary, markets very specialized scientific services to researchers in all areas of life sciences who want to identify, validate and inhibit protein interactions in animal, plant or microbiological cells.

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• SciCrunch
• 12 years ago - by Anonymous

Private research university in Rochester, New York. University grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees.

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• 16 years ago - submitted by Andrea Stagg

Federation representing the pharmaceutical industry operating in Europe. Through its direct membership of 33 national associations and 40 leading pharmaceutical companies, it is the voice on the EU scene of 1,900 companies committed to researching, developing and manufacturing new medical treatments. In addition, it is active in partnering in EU Research programmes, such as the IMI (Innovative Medicines Initiative), Europe's largest public-private partnerships. They also work on corporate social responsibility initiatives with others healthcare stakeholders, such as patient groups and healthcare professionals. EFPIA has specialized committees and task forces focused on key areas of activity. EFPIA also includes two specialized groups focusing on vaccines and biotechnology, respectively: * Vaccines Europe (formerly European Vaccine Manufacturers, EVM) produces approximately 80% of vaccines used worldwide * European Biopharmaceutical Enterprises (EBE) harness biotechnology to develop approximately one-fifth of new medicines

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• SciCrunch
• 12 years ago - by Anonymous