The pre-announcement of the 10th E-Rare joint call for funding multilateral research projects on rare diseases 2018
"Transnational research projects on hypothesis-driven use of multi-omic integrated approaches for discovery of disease causes and/or functional validation in the context of rare diseases"
has just been published on the E-Rare website:
http://www.erare.eu/joint-call/10th-joint-call-european-research-projects-rare-diseases-jtc-2018
The call will open on December 7, 2017.
The aim of the call is to enable scientists in different countries to build an effective collaboration on a common interdisciplinary research project based on complementarities and sharing of expertise, with a clear translational research approach. Projects shall involve a group of rare diseases or a single rare disease following the European definition i.e. a disease affecting not more than five in 10 000 persons in the European Community, EC associated states and Canada. 18 countries are planning to join this call: Austria*, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Romania*, Spain*, Switzerland, The Netherlands and Turkey.
*Decision still pending
The research projects have to focus on hypothesis-driven use of multi-omic integrated approaches for discovery of disease causes and/or functional validation in the context of rare diseases.
Transnational research proposals must cover at least one of the following areas, which are equal in relevance for this call:
- Combined multi-omics approaches (e.g. epigenomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, proteomics, etc.) that complement genomics-based gene discovery strategies and that are driven by a lead hypothesis
- Functional validation of clinical or biological inferences obtained from “-omics” results
- Application of “-omics” approaches to rare diseases for which the gene(s) is/are known to enable insight into disease pathophysiology
- Development and application of concepts and methods for pathogenic read-outs of disease groups, which can be used as "blue print" to discover new disease genes and inform pathomechanism
You can find more information on E-Rare website : http://www.erare.eu/joint-call/10th-joint-call-european-research-projects-rare-diseases-jtc-2018
If you are Interested in establishing new collaborations you can find your potential partners by using our « Looking for collaborations tool » available from the E-Rare website home page : http://www.erare.eu/user/register
Please note :
The information provided in this pre-announcement is indicative, may be subject to changes and is not legally binding to the funding organisations.
Additional funding organisations might join the call before the official publication.
