Queen Mary University of London is celebrating success after receiving funding to develop and validate an early-stage cardiovascular disease detection platform using integrated silicon photonics.

The European Commission has opened its call for research proposals for the €1m ‘Horizon Prize for Better Use of Antibiotics’.

A research project focusing on the standardisation and development of assays for the assessment of influenza vaccine correlates of protection has begun work.

Two European commissioners are highlighting the importance of tackling the issue of ageing at a major conference in Brussels.

The European Commission has released initial results regarding two health calls under the Societal Challenges pillar.

The European Commission has announced that a prize of €1m is to be awarded to the person or team that develops a rapid test to tell whether a patient needs to be treated with antibiotics or not.

Horizon 2020 is funding a European Training Network (ETN) project aimed at developing and validating an array of new peptide-drug conjugates combining tumour-specific peptides with potent cytotoxic drugs.

Two Societal Challenges calls – Personalising Health and Care and Health Co-ordination Activities – are closing today (24 February) at 17:00 CET.

Carlos Moedas has welcomed the announcement by researchers working on the EU-funded REACTION project that the antiviral drug favipiravir may be an effective treatment against early Ebola disease.

The Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPI AMR) has announced details of its second transnational call for research projects.

Improving public health and reducing healthy inequalities should be the main focus of health research, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) has said in response to an EU consultation.

The UK’s new National Centre for Ageing Science and Innovation (NASI) will work closely with the new Health KIC, according to an executive at Newcastle University’s Institute for Ageing.

A TB medical research consortium has been awarded a multimillion Euro grant to help discover and develop new tuberculosis vaccines.

European Commissioner Carlos Moedas has held a meeting with Bill Gates, founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

A fat-heavy diet triggers an immune response that may lead to diabetes and other health problems, according to a study of fruit flies by the researchers at King’s College London.

Global healthcare company Johnson & Johnson has announced the formation of consortia to help accelerate the development of its Ebola vaccine.

The members of the European Prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia Initiative have announced the start of a collaboration between academics and the private sector to test innovative treatments for the prevention of Alzheimer’s dementia.

The Innovative Medicines Initiative is launching the first eight projects of its Ebola+ programme to accelerate all aspects of vaccine development and manufacturing, as well as deployment and compliance with vaccine regimens and diagnostics.

Researchers part-funded from the European Research Council have made a major discovery on the role of Notch genes and bladder cancer.

A €30m call has been launched by the EU’s Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research and the European Commission to help fund transnational research in three vital sectors.