EU Research in Influenza: New Results, New Challenges,
Legnaro, Italy, 9 March 2010

European Commission unveils new research projects to fight influenza

The European Commission announced the results of its €18 million call for proposals for new research projects on influenza. Four collaborative research projects have been shortlisted for funding. They are involving 52 research institutes and SMEs from 18 European countries and 3 international partners (Israel, China, the United States). Influenza virus genes migrate across continents and between species and seriously threaten both human and animal health. Two consortia will focus their research on influenza in pigs while the two others will develop innovative drugs against influenza in humans. Their selection is part of the EU's longstanding support for research on influenza and brings the total Commission funding in this field to over €100 million since 2001....read more ( 151KB)

Background documents

ECDC Executive Update 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) (268KB)
Eurobarometer on Influenza H1N1 (8.32MB)
EU Research on Influenza: new results, new challenges: Interesting websites on influenza (116KB)
Influenza Research EU Funded Projects 2001-2007 (8.47MB)
A new Animal Health Strategy for the European Union (2007-2013) where “Prevention is better than cure” (1MB)

Projects Factsheets

European Surveillance Network for Influenza in Pigs 2 (Project ESNIP 2) (311KB)
Generation of Information and Tools to Support the Management of the Avian Influenza Crisis in Poultry (Project FLUAID) (374KB)
Fighting the flu at its heart: novel drug candidates targeting the viral polymerase (Project FLUINHIBIT) (233KB)
Modelling the spread of pandemic influenza and strategies for its containment and mitigation (Project FLUMODCONT) (649KB)
Training and Technology Transfer of Avian Influenza Diagnostics and Disease Management Skills (Project FLUTRAIN) (218KB)
A new vaccine against influenza to be taken by nasal spray (Project FLUVACC) (332KB)

Presentations

EU Animal Health Strategy: The Concept of «One Health» and the role of Research (1.02MB)
EU-Funded Research on Influenza: a long-term commitment (1.62MB)
FLUAID: Avian influenza in the animal reservoir (1.53MB)
Fighting the Flu at its Heart: Novel Drug Candidates Targeting the Viral Polymerase (2.27MB)
Modelling the spread of pandemic influenza and strategies for its containment and mitigation (1.50MB)
Flutrain achievements in the «real world » (2.44MB)
FLUTRAIN: Working together and sharing knowledge on Avian influenza (979KB)
FLUVACC A new vaccine against influenza to be taken by nasal spray (523KB)
EU Funded Research on Influenza in Animals Swine influenza (484KB)
EU research on Influenza in Humans & Announcement of two new projects on novel therapeutics (837KB)
Introduction to Influenza (2.28KB)

Speakers CVs

Andrea Pugliese CV:	Ilaria Capua, DVM,PhD CV: (137Kb)	Ruxandra Draghia-Akli CV: (980Kb)
Thomas Muster CV:	Tony M. Joannis, DVM,PhD CV: (583Kb)	Ulrich Kessler CV: (106Kb)