Acronym: | ESMI_NET |
Cost Center: | 1043 |
Operation Code: | M1.1.A/ESMI/001/2021 |
Title: | ESMI Project: European Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3/Machado-Joseph Disease Initiative |
Start-End: | 14-12-2020 - 31-12-2023 |
Entidade Beneficiária Principal: | Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso |
Gestores da FGF: | Gonçalo Goulart, Paula Oliveira |
Responsible Researcher: | Maria Manuela de Medeiros Lima |
Organic Units: | FCT - Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia |
R&D Units: | CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos |
Entidade | Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso |
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Total Financing | 90.000,00 € |
Fundo Regional da Ciência e Tecnologia (100.0 %) | 90.000,00 € |
Main Objectives:
The project aims to continue the follow-up study of Machado-Joseph patients in the RAA, seeking to contribute to a detailed knowledge of the natural history of the disease, with a direct impact on therapeutic discoveries.
Project Description:
The ESMI network arises as part of the participation of the University of the Azores team in the European project ESMI (European Initiative for Spino-Cerebellar Ataxia type 3/Machado-Joseph disease), funded by the JPND network (Neurodegenerative Disease Research) , which aimed to define and standardize patient observation and biomaterials collection protocols, clinically and molecularly characterizing an extensive group of patients with Machado-Joseph Disease (MJD) and asymptomatic carriers of the mutation.