Mapping health research

03/10/11

News Alert

The EU invests €30 million to map
new territory in health research

Brussels, 3 October 2011

BBC Radio 4 report on BLUEPRINT (4 minutes)

Q&A with BLUEPRINT’s Henk Stunnenberg on Epiexperts.com, social media site

The EU has invested €30 million to understand the epigenome - a link between genes, environment and health.  BLUEPRINT, a new large-scale research project, will lead to targeted diagnostics, new treatments and preventive measures for specific diseases in individual patients; an approach known as 'personalised medicine'. BLUEPRINT, officially launched on 1 October, is the European cornerstone of an international research cooperation effort – the International Human Epigenome Consortium (IHEC), bringing together organisations and researchers from across the globe. The project upholds the EU's pledge to maximise open access to results of publicly-funded research, as teams from around the world will have a platform to openly share their results.

Read more: http://ec.europa.eu/research/index.cfm?pg=newsalert&lg=en&year=2011&na=na-031011

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