The following calls for biological/medical research projects are announced/open:

• Joint call by Instruct-ERIC and EuroBioNMR: Magnetic Resonance spectroscopies for life science
  --> Applications can be submitted for access to magnetic resonance platforms in Europe     
  --> The next deadline for proposal submission is 15 October 2018
  --> More information can be found here

There are several job vacancies at EMBRC-ERIC:

• Excecutive Director
• Scientific Officer & Project Manager
• Communication Officer
• Access Officer
• Administrative Assistant

More information can be found here.

Registration for the 5th CORBEL Medical Infrastructure/Users Forum (MIUF) meeting (15 October 2018, Paris) is now open. Please find more information in the Event announcements.

In the course of a recent grant agreement amendment, the European Commission approved the cost neutral extension of CORBEL until the end of May 2020. The consortium is very grateful for the chance to extend and expand its efforts to support European biological and medical research by harmonising user access to biomedical research infrastructures, unifying data management, creating common ethical and legal services, and offering joint innovation support!

During the second submission round of the CORBEL 2nd Open Call for research projects, several applications were received and are now being evaluated.

Due to the rolling deadline of the Open Call, researchers are now encouraged to submit their proposals during the third submission round.

Please be aware that all interested researchers are required to talk about potential applications with the contact person(s) at the prospective service providers before submitting their project proposal.

The third submission round will close on 31 August, 2018.

For more information visit the Open Call webpages.

The first submission round of the CORBEL 2nd Open Call for research projects closed on April 30, 2018. The evaluation process has started and applicants will be notified about the outcome of the evaluation soon.

As the Open Call has a rolling deadline collecting applications at the 1st of every 2nd month, researchers are now encouraged to submit their proposals during the second submission round.

Please be aware that all interested researchers are required to talk about potential applications with the contact person(s) at the prospective service providers before submitting their project proposal.

The second submission round will close on 30 June, 2018.

For more information visit the Open Call webpages.

On 26 March CORBEL launched its 2nd Open Call for research projects.

This call offers all academic and industrial scientists in Europe the unique chance to accelerate their research by using state-of-the-art technologies and services from more than 20 facilities from 10 different research infrastructures.

The first submission round will close on 30 April, 2018.

For more information visit the Open Call webpages.

Scientists at the Helmholtz Center Munich (HMGU) have identified a network of genes that could play a vital role in the development of metabolic diseases such as diabetes. The study for which INFRAFRONTIER provided the research infrastructure marks a substantial progress in the fight against diabetes: In order to identify candidate genes for the wide spread metabolic disease, the research team of the German Mouse Clinic (GMC) examined `knockout mice´ – each lacking a specific gene – for metabolic dysfunction.

As a follow-up to the consensus paper published end of 2017, ECRIN-ERIC released their publication on Classification of processes involved in sharing individual participant data from clinical trials.
It is accessible from here.

CORBEL WP3, lead by ECRIN-ERIC, published a consensus paper on data sharing of data from clinical trials.

The report "IP issues in Open Science, pre-competitive Research and Open Innovation", produced by the CORBEL innovation specialists (CORBEL WP8), is now online available.

The CORBEL Catalogue of Services offers an overview on what kind of services (access to samples and technologies, data, tools, expertise etc.) can be accessed from the participating research infrastructures. Researchers from academia, clinics and industry working on a complex project often do not have access at their home institution to the cutting-edge technologies they would need to boost their research – especially these researchers can benefit from utilising a research infrastructure.