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Knowledge Centre on Cancer

We foster scientific and technical coordination of EU activities on cancer, while expanding the EU’s capacities and systems for prevention, early detection, treatment and care.

Recent EC funded projects that started between 1. - 3.6.2024

Cancer
ProjectAcronymStart dateEnd dateCoordinatorFunding
Hybrid detectors for medical radiation therapies IDEATE03/06/202402/06/2027TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK (US)MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022
Changes in salivary proteome and flavour perception induced by a physical activity program in overweight and obese children FLAVOUR2​HEALTHY​CHILD03/06/202402/06/2026UNIVERSIDADE DE EVORA (PT)ERA Fellowships
Targeting the Metabolic Dependencies of Metastatic Tumor Cells METATARGET01/06/202431/05/2029UNIVERSITAETSKLINIKUM ESSEN (DE)ERC STARTING GRANTS
Extracellular Vesicles as mediators of Pre-Metastatic Niche Formation in Melanoma METMAP01/06/202431/05/2026VIB VZW (BE)MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023
Reprogramming of Tumor Stroma to Enhance Cancer Immunotherapy REACT01/06/202430/11/2025INSTITUT PASTEUR (FR)ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS
Decoding and Targeting Treatment-Resistant Metastatic Neuroblastoma Decode Relapse01/06/202431/05/2029LUNDS UNIVERSITET (SE)ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS
Engineering lipid nanoparticles to target and escape the endosome, deliver their cargo and perform better as breast cancer therapies MaxFUSE LNPS01/06/202431/05/2029KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN (SE)ERC STARTING GRANTS
Mechanism and targeting of topoisomerase regulatory interactions to arrest MYC-driven tumors MYCinTOPshape01/06/202431/05/2029KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET (SE)ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS
TIMELAPSE. A VR application for speeding up time passage during chemotherapy TIMELAPSE01/06/202430/11/2025UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO (IT)ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS
Early detection of treatment response in breast cancer RESPONSE01/06/202431/05/2027UNIVERSITATSKLINIKUM SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN (DE)EIC Transition Challenge: Full scale Micro-Nano-Bio devices for medical and medical research applications
BUILDING INTEGRATIVE SINGLE CELL OMICS CAPACITIES USING INVERTEBRATE TUMOR MODELS RELEVANT TO HUMAN DISEASE SCENTINEL01/06/202431/05/2027IDRYMA TECHNOLOGIAS KAI EREVNAS (EL)Twinning Bottom-Up
Mechanisms of Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus replication and maintenance during latency KAPTION01/06/202431/05/2029UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PADOVA (IT)ERC STARTING GRANTS
IN-situ Thermometry gUidance In phoTomedicine INTUIT01/06/202430/11/2026ALLATORVOSTUDOMANYI EGYETEM (HU)MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022
Towards ultra-high dose rates in proton therapy: an ionoacoustic approach for in vivo dose monitoring RAPID01/06/202431/05/2027THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION (US)MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023
MICROBOTS – Unravel the power of MICRObial metaBOliTeS to prevent graft versus host disease and cure leukemia relapse MICROBOTS01/06/202431/05/2029KLINIKUM DER UNIVERSITAET REGENSBURG (DE)ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS
Dynamic Peptide-Phosphate-based Hydrogels for Modelling Diseases and Therapeutic Interventions D-PhosMate01/06/202431/05/2026I3S - INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACAO E INOVACAO EM SAUDE DA UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO (PT)MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023
Unravelling the role of Pneumocystis jirovecii in utero infection in early and late pulmonary diseases of very preterm infants. JIROborn01/06/202431/05/2026UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA (ES)MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023
Multiplexed microRNA detection platform for early diagnosis and patient management MiRACLE01/06/202430/11/2025TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY (IL)ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS