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Active EU Projects

Project Title	Description	Further information	Principal Investigator
BacterioSafe	The aim of the Bacteriosafe consortium is to construct, test and develop a unique active wound dressing, which incorporates novel colourimetric sensor and active therapeutic processes for detecting and counteracting pathogenic bacteria in wounds.	Website	Professor Martin Clynes
BioliSME II - Demonstration, validation and preliminary promotion of a commercial prototype speedy system for sampling and detecting Listeria monocytogenes	The Project Consortium (comprising 4 SMEs and 3 RTD performes) wishes to launch a follow-up project (BioliSME II) in order to demonstrate, validate and promote (at an exploratory commercial level) the novel assay system for L. mococytogenes.	Website	Professor Richard O'Kennedy
Celtic Alliance in nanoHealth: CAN			Professor Robert Forster
DECATHLON - Development of Cost Efficient Advanced DNA-based methods for specific Traceability issues and High Level On-site applicatioNs	The Decathlon project will bring together a broad range of experts and expertise to jointly work on the development of new or improved methods that are needed in the field of 1) food pathogens, 2) traceability of GMOs and 3) customs issues.	Website	Professor Jens Ducree
Dem@Care	The objective of Dem@Care is the development of a complete system providing personal health services to people with dementia, as well as medical professionals and caregivers, by using a multitude of sensors, for context-aware, multi-parametric monitoring of lifestyle, ambient environment, and health parameters.	Website	Professor Alan Smeaton
DEXLIFE	Mechanisms of prevention of type 2 diabetes by lifestyle intervention in subjects with pre-diabetes or at high risk for progression.	Website	Dr Donal O'Gorman
Global initiative on gene-environment interaction on diabetes/obesity risk (InterConnect)	The overall goal of InterConnect is to establish a global network that will facilitate the co-ordination of population research on the interaction between genetic and environmental factors in the aetiology of obesity and diabetes.	Website	Dr Donal O'Gorman
Innovative Midlife Intervention for Dementia deterrence (In-MINDD).	This project seeks to design and test a state of the art electronic system for use in primary care to profile individual’s dementia risks and respond to those risks with a combination of the best available on-line strategies and locally sourced options.	Website	Dr Kate Irving
KidneyConnect - A Gateway to European Kidney Research Resources	KidneyConnect brings together teams of excellence to underpin nationally funded programs under a) Discovery and Future Technologies b) New Research Platforms c) Translational and d) Clinical Podocyte Research to create connected capacities, access to well-trained talents and to optimize strategies for industry-academia cowork. In addition to resource maps, KidneyConnect supports international congresses, training courses, talent coaching, special seminars and builds systematically relations to key stakeholders.	Website	Professor Harry Holthofer
KHRESMOI	In KHRESMOI, we will build a multi-lingual multi-modal search and access system for biomedical information and documents.		Dr Gareth Jones
LIPHOS - Living Photonics: Monitoring light propagation through cells	LIPHOS is focused on the development of completely innovative biophotonic diagnosis tools, which are for the first time implemented using cells as constituent material.	Website	Professor Jens Ducree
Living Healthy through Generations	Living Healthy through Generations	Website	Dr Kathy Harrison
Prosense - Marie Curie -Initial Training Networks (multi-centre)	The Marie Curie ITN "Cancer Diagnostics: Parallel Sensing of Prostate Cancer Biomarkers" (PROSENSE) aims at training a new generation of young scientists in the interdisciplinary techniques and methods required to meet the major challenges in the development of diagnostic tools for prostate cancer.	Website	Professor Richard O'Kennedy
MemSense - Microcavity Array Supported Lipid Bilayers; Biomimetic Test Beds for Drug-Membrane Interactions	Microcavity Array Supported Lipid Bilayers; Biomimetic Test Beds for Drug-Membrane Interactions.		Professor Tia Keyes
MORPH	In this project, the candidate will develop techniques for the analysis of facial surfaces based on spectral decomposition methods.	Website
NEOGEL	Multi-disciplinary training environment for next generation hydrogel-based smart bio-interactive materials.	Website	Dr Andreas Heise
PRODEX	Novel countermeasures to prevent physiological decline during medium duration bed rest.	Website	Dr Donal O'Gorman
OrgBIO	Organic Bioelectonics is a new discipline which holds promise to shape, direct, and change future medical treatments in a revolutionary manner over the next decades.		Professor Dermot Diamond
PANAMA: Physical Activity and Nutrition: An EU-ANZ Research Collaboration to Exploit New Measurement Technologies and Quantify Impact on Health	Poor diet, insufficient physical activity, and obesity are leading causes of premature mortality worldwide. Efforts to improve population diets, increase physical activity, and reduce obesity rates are hampered by: limitations in the measurement of dietary intake and physical activity levels; lack of quantification of the long-term impact of promising behaviour change interventions on population health; and lack of comparable estimates of cost-effectiveness for interventions. This multidisciplinary joint exchange programme will integrate research from well-established teams in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, New Zealand and Australia, to consolidate complementary expertise, expand research boundaries, and develop joint capability.		Professor Alan Smeaton
POSADEME - Positive About Dementia	Positive About Dementia		Dr Kate Irving
UROSENSE: Biomarker Applications for nanotechnology and Imaging in Diabetes	UroSense is a focussed research programme to generate new concepts from knowledge creation to knowledge transfer between innovative academic and dedicated industry partners utilising a systematic intersectoral secondment programme.		Professor Harry Holthofer
PARAGONE: vaccines for animal parasites	Findings from previous EU and other-funded projects on parasite vaccine development will be exploited to take a number of promising prototypes towards commercialisation	Website	Dr Sandra O'Neill
PATHway: Technology enabled behavioural change as a pathway towards better self-management of CVD	PATHway will provide individualized rehabilitation programs that use regular, socially inclusive exercise sessions as the basis upon which to provide a personalized comprehensive lifestyle intervention program (exercise/physical activity (PA), smoking, diet, stress management, alcohol use, medication compliance) to enable patients to both better understand and deal with their own condition and to lead a healthier lifestyle in general.	Website	Dr Kieran Moran
ClickGene	Click Chemistry for Future Gene Therapies to Benefit Citizens, Researchers and Industry.The ClickGene ITN offers its 14 PhD students the opportunity to develop skills required by the next-generation research leaders in biopharmaceutical, nanotechnology, biodiagnostic and related industries.	Website	Dr Andrew Kellett
CANCER-TECH: Cervical cancer detection platform based on novel laser processing	This project aims at making substantial contribution to the advancement of cancer immunosensing based on a novel on-chip immunoassay design for medical applications. Through this project, the applicant aims to develop intellectual property related to the manufacturing of biomedical devices via laser processed surfaces.		Professor Dermot Brabazon
DRIVE	Diabetes Reversing Implants with enhanced Viability and long-term Efficacy. The programme will develop natural materials and new surgical devices to enhance the transplant and survival of insulin producing pancreatic islets for the treatment of diabetes.	Website	Dr Finbarr O'Sullivan
Enhancing CHO by Mammalian Systems Biotechnology (eCHO systems)	The programme takes advantage of the recent sequencing of the Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cell genome in order to optimize the production of therapeutic proteins, Biopharmaceuticals.The researcher training provided will be an intense preparation in computational systems biology, cell and molecular biology, as well as business and entrepreneurship - producing a cadre of researchers poised to transform Biopharmaceutical manufacturing technology.		Dr Niall Barron