5th call for projects from the Fondation Fournier-Majoie pour l’Innovation (FFMI)
Date: 04/01/2011
We have the pleasure to announce you the official launch of the 5th call for projects of the foundation for the year 2011 on the same subject: “Cancer Biomarkers and functional imaging”.
This call covers any candidate-biomarker (including companion biomarker) or functional imaging marker intended to improve cancer prognosis through either a genuine early diagnostic tool and/or better indicators/predictors of treatment efficiency or of relapse and metastasis occurrence.
The call is open to researchers or research teams within a university or a research centre, laboratories or (start-up) companies.
The projects must be initiated or developed by teams based in Belgium or international teams having established collaborative programmes with a Belgian-based entity, in this case the Belgian entity will be empowered entity for the achievement of the project.
The application must pertinently address the following scientific and technical criteria on which the evaluation will be based (weighting factor between brackets)
1. Scientific relevance (3)
2. Medical need (3)
3. Innovative proposal (2)
4. Intellectual property existing or foreseeable patents (2)
5. Planning and budget accuracy (2)
6. Risk appraisal (success/failure ratio) according to preliminary data (2)
7. Established validation or validation intended process (2)
This call will be closed on 31st March 2011.
Please find herewith the full text of the call. All useful information is available on FFMI’s website: www.ffmi.eu
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