Second IMI financing round announced

Published: 29-Sep-2009

A second call for research project proposals seeking financing from the EU's Innovative Medicines Initiative has been announced.


A second call for research project proposals seeking financing from the EU's Innovative Medicines Initiative has been announced.

A further Euro 156.3m is being made available, of which â"šÂ¬76.3m will come from the European Commission and â"šÂ¬79.5m expected from member companies of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA).

The nine priority topics for this financing round will include biomarkers for anticancer drugs; validation tools for oncology drugs; understanding aberrant adaptive immunity mechanisms; drug/disease modelling; and others. Detailed application guidelines will be released on October 30.

The initiative now has a new executive director, Michel Goldman. EU research Commissioner Janez Potočnik said: "We should see results from this exciting new research mechanism very soon."

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