CENIT Programme

Title of project or programme
CENIT Programme
Principal Investigators of project/programme grant

Title	Forname	Surname	Institution	Country
Various

Address of institution of lead PI

Institution	CENIT
Street Address
City
Postcode

Country
Spain
Source of funding information
Centre for Technological Development (CDTI)
Total sum awarded (Euro)
19924257
Start date of award
01-06-2008
Total duration of award in months
60
The project/programme is most relevant to

• Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
• Neurodegenerative disease in general

Keywords

Research abstract in English
The CENIT was launched in 2006 to stimulate private-public partnership in industrial research, through funding, by means of subsidies of up to 50%, large scale and major scientific-technical consortium projects aimed at planned research in future technology areas and with potential international projection, whose mission is to generate new knowledge that may be useful to create new products, processes or services or to integrate strategic technologies. Consortia involving twenty four companies and thirty public research institutions. The following projects were funded through this initiative:

Methodology for the design, evaluation and validation of functional foods for the prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease MIND – Multidisiciplinary approach to Alzheimer’s Disease

Solutions to accelerate the indentification and development of novel drugs for the treatment of nervous system pathology
Lay summary

CENIT Programme

Investments > €500k
Spain
Alzheimer’s disease & other dementias|Neurodegenerative disease in general
2011