Tuesday, 28 August 2012

European Commission Introduced Funding For Health Research


The EU has introduced the last and biggest set of calls for research suggestions by the Seventh Framework Programme, of which €820 million is issued for health research.

The decision is currently open and priority places involve cancer, health promotion, investigator-led clinical trials, brain research, heart problems, health solutions research, and antimicrobial drug conflict. The deadlines for health-related calls are September 25 (INNOVATION 2) and October 2 (INNOVATION 1).

Asserting the brand new call in Dublin, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science Ma¡ire Geoghegan-Quinn submitted with some researchers who have got already secured funding by means of FP7 programmes, such as Prof Brian Lawlor. Ever since FP7 got startup in 2007, there shall always be 24 Irish-led health proposals honored almost €62 million in raising a fund.

“This funding will help us to undertake clinical trials across Europe to discover if the medication, nilvadipine, which is already licensed to manage blood pressure in certain EU nations, is likewise effective at slowing down the rate of degradation in Alzheimer’s disorder,” explained Prof Lawlor.


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