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EU funding (€10.9M): Building REsilience against MEntal illness during ENDocrine-sensitive life stages Hor16 Dec 2022 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"

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Building REsilience against MEntal illness during ENDocrine-sensitive life stages

Mental illnesses represent a huge burden for society, the economy, and the aMental illnesses represent a huge burden for society, the economy, and the affected individuals. To significantly increase citizens? mental health, today?s symptom-based diagnoses need to be complemented by biological criteria accounting for individual and sex differences. Furthermore, early detection and prevention measures need to be improved. RE-MEND addresses the current gaps and challenges with an interdisciplinary approach by: i) focussing on four critical life stages in which an individual?s susceptibility to mental illness is strongly influenced by changes in endocrine signalling, including sex hormones, namely early life, puberty, peripartum, and transition into old age; ii) integrating data from large population-based longitudinal cohort studies allowing for discovery of risk and protective factors as well as biological patterns that influence mental states in the general population across these life stages; iii) complementing epidemiological with experimental studies to establish correlative and causative links leading to mechanistic understanding; iv) using advanced biostatistics as well as machine learning and artificial intelligence for data integration and biomarker and drug target discovery; v) combining the biological approaches with communication science studies to efficiently translate its results to societal impact. Ultemately, RE-MEND will result in: i) Significantly increased mental health literacy among stakeholders and citizens; ii) Validated biomarkers for assessing mental health state and its predisposition as well as more accurate diagnoses and personalised preventive and therapeutic measures; iii) Recommendations for early detection, better prevention, and drug design strategies to protect vulnerable individuals from mental illness in sensitive life stages; and iv) strategies on how these advances can be used to decrease stigma and increase prevention behaviour.


Funded Companies:

Company name Funding amount
University of Ulster ?
Fondazione Human Technopole €0.00
Fondazione Telethon ETS €593,750
HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO €249,208
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI €154,303
International Centre FOR Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh €243,675
Karlstads Universitet €743,118
Karolinska Institutet €949,687
KLINIKUM DER UNIVERSITAET ZU KOELN €771,762
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN e. V. €25,000
Stockholms Universitet €330,272
Umea Universitet €495,442
Universidade de Aveiro €445,750
Universita Degli Studi Di Milano €998,578
UNIVERSITAET BIELEFELD €686,675
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER €56,250
Uppsala Universitet €3,874,596
Vetenskap & Allmanhet, VA €250,156

Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101057604

The filing refers to a past date, and does not necessarily reflect the current state. The current state is available on the following page: University of Ulster, Coleraine.