CENIT Programme - JPND Neurodegenerative Disease Research

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

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

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