System Medicine in the Work Programme 2012
Date: 15/07/2011
We are glad to share with you the following news regarding the EU Commission's new FP7 Health Call 2012 under the FP7 Cooperation Programme.
FP7 Health: Orientation Paper with Indicative List of Topics
The European Commission has published an orientation paper with an indicative list of topics that are expected to be funded under the FP7 2012 Health calls for proposals. The call is managed by the Research and Innovation DG – Directorate Health. The final work programme is expected to be published on 20 July 2011, together with the launch of the FP7 Health calls for proposals.
In the Work Programme 2012, the area of System Medicine will focus on multidisciplinary research that will integrate a wide variety of biological, medical and clinical data to understand and model complex human diseases. A major goal of this call is to stimulate system biology approaches for medical and clinical application and therefore to establish the basis for system medicine.
The indicative orientation of topics may include the following list:
· SME-driven research applying systems biology approaches to address medical and clinical needs. Research should focus on the development, improvement and application of systems biology approaches to medical/clinical questions (maximum EU contribution EUR 3 000 000)
This topic includes a specific focus on SMEs establishing favourable and simplified conditions for them to participate:
- 2 years duration;
- Minimum of partners;
- Minimum of 30% dedicated to SMEs over the 3 millions budget and;
- one report is required at the end of the project.
· Systems medicine: Applying systems biology approaches for understanding multifactorial human diseases and their co-morbidities (EU contribution from EUR 6 000 000 to maximum EUR 12 000 000)
· Preparing for the future research and innovation activities in systems medicine. (maximum EU contribution EUR 3 000 000)
The direct contact for System Medicine is: Christina.kyriakopoulou@ec.europa.eu
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