Biobanks and multigenerational data exploit the research potential in Horizon 2020!

Purpose and goal

The project contains ongoing projects that we propose could be used as platforms with links to academic and industry partners for biomarker discovery in a number of complex diseases. The purpose has been to create a number of new initiatives linked to submitted Horizon 2020 applications that have now moved on to the second round which include proposals involving industry partners (deCODE Genetics, Iceland) and multiple academic partners within Sweden and throughout Europe.

Results and expected effects

Seven submitted and successfully passed on to the second round of the process. Examples of such project proposals that either make use of genealogic information or biobank information are projects on viral etiology of Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons disease, Nutrition, B-cell neoplasms. A proposal of a Nordic Genomic Institute (NGI) have also been put forward and is followed by a H2020 proposal on ageing coordinated by deCode, Iceland.

Approach and implementation

We have attained our goals, since we have within a national group of researchers further formulated and clarified the research potential of multigenerational research. We have identified different options for influencing H2020, for example by specifying those research questions that the program may address and that Swedish multigenerational research may answer. We have also informed and involved actors of relevance for H2020.