Project

European Network for Cancer research in Children and Adolescents (ENCCA)

Acronym
ENCCA
Code
41E09110
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2015
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Genetics
    • Systems biology
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Molecular and cell biology
    • Morphological sciences
    • Oncology
    • Morphological sciences
    • Oncology
    • Molecular and cell biology
    • Morphological sciences
    • Oncology
Keywords
adolescents biological datasets european virtual institute targeted therapy research infrastructure children cancer
 
Project description

The goal of ENCCA is to estabilish a durable, integrated clinical and translationaa research infrastructure in Europe for optimization of the management of cancer in children and adolescents. ENCCA aims to bring togheter the existing informal chlinical trial groups towards a European virtual Institute to reduce knowledge fragmentation and to enhance communication and collaboration. Our main contribution in this project is the integration and harmonization of existing biologial datasets and experimental data to enable targeted herapy.