Half of this comes from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme and will fund the participation in the projects of universities, small and medium-sized companies, patient groups etc. The other half comes from large pharmaceutical companies and IMI Associated Partners, who do not receive EU funding through IMI but finance their own participation in the projects.
Open access tools for the genetics of disease
Many diseases have a genetic component, yet we lack the tools to study many of the genes behind diseases. This topic aims to develop a set of open access tools to facilitate the study around 1 000 of the 3 000 genes thought to be implicated in disease and that could be targeted by drugs. The results of the project will be made fully available to the scientific community by open access.Optimising future obesity treatment
Obesity affects some 650 million people globally, placing them at greater risk of complications such as heart disease, diabetes and cancer to name a few. This topic aims to better understand obesity as a disease by identifying subgroups of people with obesity that will ultimately pave the way for better, more personalised prevention and lifestyle interventions, as well as treatments for obesity and its complications. The project will also focus on diabetes (both types 1 and 2) as examples of conditions that are influenced by obesity in a complex way.If we want to enjoy the benefits of the genomic revolution, we have to develop tools to study in detail the genes that influence health