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Project

EU-OPENSCREEN

Title European Infrastructure of Open Screening Platforms for Chemical Biology
Grant Agreement Number 261861
Funding Programmes FP7
Dates 01/11/2010 - 31/10/2013
Project URL http://www.eu-openscreen.de
Scientific Domain Biological and Medical Sciences
Action Line Preparatory phase
Type Of Project CP-CSA-INFRA-PP
Abstract The EU-OPENSCREEN Preparatory Phase forms the basis for the construction and operation of a pan-European infrastructure of open screening platforms for Chemical Biology. EU-OPENSCREEN will bring together leading laboratories from 12 European countries covering all aspects of Chemical Biology from high-throughput screening with a dedicated compound library to assay development, chemical synthesis for hit-optimisation, bio-profiling and in vivo studies, as well as a central database, training for scientists and platform staff and dissemination activities. The infrastructure will be used by researchers from universities, research institutes and SMEs across Europe, who either have only limited in-house facilities or no access at all to such resources and expertise. The EU-OPENSCREEN infrastructure will keep Europe at the forefront of the biological and medical sciences and will stimulate industrial research and commercial exploitation. In order to prepare the creation of an efficient network of centres which provide users with optimal resources, the EU-OPENSCREEN Preparatory Phase will address the following issues: - A user-focused access strategy. - The physical infrastructure requirements. - Suitable data standards and the framework for a database to archive and make the results available to the scientific community. - A financial management plan for the construction and sustainable operation of the infrastructure in co-operation with national funding bodies. - The legal approach regarding intellectual property issues. - An appropriate legal and governance structure. - The development of a Chemical Biology education package to ensure adequate training of scientists and platform staff. - A central Chemical Biology information gateway in form of a website. - The dissemination of the business plan to stakeholders and decision makers and co-ordination with national funding strategies.
Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country)
FORSCHUNGSVERBUND BERLIN E.V., Germany
Partners
(Organisation name and Country)
Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
UMEA UNIVERSITET, Sweden
HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUER INFEKTIONSFORSCHUNG GMBH, Germany
FUNDACIO PRIVADA PARC CIENTIFIC DE BARCELONA, Spain
VIB, Belgium
UNIVERSITETET I OSLO, Norway
German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany
USTAV MOLEKULARNI GENETIKY AKADEMIE VED CESKE REPUBLIKY VEREJNA VYSKUMNA INSTITUCE, Czech Republic
HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ-GEMEINSCHAFT DEUTSCHER FORSCHUNGSZENTREN EV, Germany
MAX DELBRUECK CENTRUM FUER MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN, Germany
CONSORZIO INTERDISCIPLINARE DI STUDI BIOMOLECOLARI ED APPLICAZIONI INDUSTRIALI SCRL, Italy
WISSENSCHAFTSGEMEINSCHAFT GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ E.V., Germany
STICHTING HET NEDERLANDS KANKER INSTITUUT-ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK ZIEKENHUIS, Netherlands
CEMM - FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER MOLEKULARE MEDIZIN GMBH, Austria
HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO, Finland
INSTYTUT BIOLOGII MEDYCZNEJ POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK, Poland
IRBM SCIENCE PARK SPA, Italy
INSTITUTUL DE CHIMIE TIMISOARA AL ACADEMIEI ROMANE, Romania