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European research effort FUMINOMICS tackles dangerous mould

Ubiquitous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus poses an increasing threat to patients with compromised immune systems

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European Science Foundation aims to strengthen regenerative medicine

14 Member Organisations* of the European Science Foundation have launched a key initiative to keep Europe at the forefront of regenerative medicine; broadly defined as the development of stem cell therapies to restore lost, damaged, or ageing cells and tissues in the human body.Stem cells are the...

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Ten Questions with Descartes Prize laureate Dr. Eric Wolff (British Antarctic Survey), member of the EPICA Team

1. What does winning the Descartes Prize mean to you and EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica)? Winning the Descartes Prize is a great recognition of the work of the EPICA team.  It shows that the science that has come out of it is interesting and important for climate...

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ESF’s European ice core project EPICA receives prestigious Descartes Prize for Collaborative, Transnational Research

The research project EPICA (European Project for Ice Coring in Antarctica), one of the European Science Foundations most successful and longest running Research Networking Programmes, is one of this year’s winners of the Descartes Prize for Research. The Descartes Prize for Research was awarded to...

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ESF to launch 15 Research Netowrk Programmes in 2008

The European Science Foundation announced that all 15 ESF Research Networking Programmes (RNP), which were recommended from the 2006 Call and subsequently forwarded to Member Organisations for consideration for à la carte funding in the course of 2007, will be launched in 2008. As 132 proposals...

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Roger Jowell, the founder of the European Social Survey, gets knighted for contribution in social science

Professor Roger Jowell, the co-founder and director of the European Science Foundation (ESF)- conceived European Social Survey (ESS), was recently awarded a knighthood by the Queen of England for his contribution to the social science field. The ESS was the first methodologically consistent study...

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European Neuroscience and Society Network tackles neurosocieties head-on

The neurosciences have such a wide-ranging influence on so many areas of life that a new concept of the community has developed called “neurosocieties.”  To bring this community together, the European Neuroscience and Society Network (ENSN), funded by the European Science Foundation (ESF), has...

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Examining the European economy from a historical perspective

Is the single European market in people, goods, money and ideas a new development? Or are we merely reassembling something that existed a century ago? Appropriately, the European Science Foundation is supporting the researchers who aim to find out. GlobalEuroNet, the Globalizing Europe Economic...

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Hybrid approach to solar power brings rewards

SONS 2 scientist Dr Saif Haque of Imperial College London, is to receive the Royal Society of Chemistry's Edward Harrison Memorial Prize for his research on developing solar cells based on self-organising organic materials systems. Haque first became involved with the ESF through its SONS 2...

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