BoneFix: A new Pathfinder project proposing a paradigm shift in fracture fixations

BoneFix aims to provide a novel class of bone adhesives that will allow for personalized surgical treatment of bone fractures via minimal invasive surgery under local anaesthesia. The BoneFix project aims to deal with the socioeconomics cost of fractures. While this medical condition occurs relatively commonly, as it is caused by accidents such as falls,…

SWATCH Project by Dr. Ana Andreu

SWATCH – Savanna WATer and Carbon fluxes modelling integrating EartH Observation data Savannas (grasslands with scattered trees and shrubs) are among the most complex, variable and extensive biomes on Earth (~20%), covering more than 3 million ha in Europe and half of Africa. One fifth of the world’s population depend upon them, as an agrosilvopastoral…

BECONTRA by Belinda Pletzer

Brain effects of contraceptives: How birth control pills affect the female brain Birth control pills have been on the market for 60 years now and are used by 150 million women worldwide. Particularly, the use of birth control pills increases among adolescents. While the major target of birth control pills are hormone axes regulated by…

EU Prize for Women Innovators announced

Mariya Gabriel has announced the winners of the EU Prize for Women Innovators which is funded under Horizon 2020. The announcement was made online this time at the European Research and Innovation Days and included: Madiha Derouazi (Switzerland), founder and CEO of Amal Therapeutics, a company developing therapeutic cancer vaccines. Maria Fátima Lucas (Portugal), co-founder and…

Horizon Impact Award Winners 2020

Commission announces the winners of Horizon Impact Award 2020 On 23rd September 2020 the European Commission announced the winners of the 2nd edition of Horizon Impact Award; a prize dedicated to recognise EU-funded projects which have shown the ability to create societal impact across Europe and further afield. Subject matters covered by the winning projects…

DiverseNile by Prof. Dr. Julia Budka

DiverseNile The multidisciplinary ERC Consolidator Grant project DiverseNile will explore a crucial part of northern Sudan as a case study to reconstruct Bronze Age biographies (c. 1650–1200 BCE) beyond the present categories ‘Egyptian’ and ‘Nubian’. The main hypothesis is that degrees of cultural diversity become archaeologically more visible in the peripheral zones of the central…