Project Interview: Systems Medicine of Mitochondrial Parkinson’s Disease – SysMedPD

October 24, 2016January 9, 2017 Featured Articles, Project Interviews, Projects

The overall objective of the SysMedPD project is to further explore and identify novel drug candidates capable of slowing down the progression of neurodegeneration in the subset of Parkinson’s Disease (PD) patients with overt mitochondrial dysfunction.

Project Interview: Exploiting MELanoma disease comPLEXity – MEL-PLEX

February 22, 2016 Featured Articles, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications, Research projects

MEL-PLEX is a European Training Network currently training Early Stage Researchers by investigating the network-level and multi-scale regulation of disease relevant signalling in melanoma.

Project Interview: Personalizing health care in Multiple Sclerosis using systems medicine tools – Sys4MS

January 18, 2016January 18, 2016 Featured Articles, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications, Research projects

The Sys4MS consortium aims to use systems medicine to develop new tools to improve and personalize the management of patients with a complex disease, Multiple Sclerosis.

Project Interview: Avicenna – A strategy for In Silico Clinical Trials/Avicenna

January 15, 2016January 15, 2016 Featured Articles, Other initiatives, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications

“Avicenna – A Strategy for in silico Clinical Trials” was a Coordination and Support Action funded by the European Commission. Avicenna was tasked with writing a Roadmap to define the strategy for developing In Silico Clinical Trials.

Project Interview: Combination therapy and biomarkers for Multiple Sclerosis – CombiMS

December 16, 2015December 16, 2015 Featured Articles, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications, Research projects

The main goal of the CombiMS project is to identify a new method for drug discovery based on systems biology and to validate this approach by identifying novel combination therapies for Multiple Sclerosis.

Project Interview: Profiling Responders In Antibody Therapies (PRIAT)

November 18, 2015November 18, 2015 Featured Articles, Other initiatives, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications

The main goal of the PRIAT Project consists in the development and use of HLA peptidome analysis for the study of interpatient and intrapatient variations in the immunopeptidome in response to antibody treatment.

Project Interview: Coordination and Support Action (CSA) PerMed on Personalised Medicine (PM)

July 22, 2015November 13, 2015 Featured Articles, Other initiatives, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications

The PerMed consortium has 27 international partners representing key decision makers in research and research policy, industry, healthcare and patient organisations. The aim is to develop a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) to foster research and implementaion of suitable Personalized Medicine (PM) approaches in Europe and beyond.

Project Interview: The Coordinating Action Systems Medicine (CASyM)

July 2, 2015February 1, 2016 Featured Articles, Other initiatives, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications

The Coordinating Action Systems Medicine (CASyM) will assess the basis for a European Systems Medicine paradigm and will assist the medical community in creating the foundation for a new perspective by focusing on an approach based on personalized, predictive, preventive and participatory (4P medicine).

Project Interview: Systems medicine of chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease (SysmedIBD)

June 2, 2015November 13, 2015 Featured Articles, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications, Research projects

The main objective of SysmedIBD is to better understand chronic Inflammatory Bowel Disease and to find new approaches for therapies.

Project Interview: The European Network of Paediatric Research at the European Medicines Agency (Enpr-EMA)

April 30, 2015November 13, 2015 Featured Articles, Other initiatives, Project Interviews, Projects, Publications

The European Network of Paediatric Research at the European Medicines Agency (Enpr-EMA) is a network of research networks, investigators and centres with recognised expertise in performing.