
General information
Topic: European research projects on rare diseases
Budget: 12,3 Million €
Funded projects: 13
The following partners have decided to open the first joint call for funding multilateral research projects on rare diseases:
- The National Research Agency (ANR), France
- The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
- The Chief Scientist Office of the Ministry of Health (CSMOH), Israel • The National Institute of Health (ISS), Italy
- The Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII), Spain
- The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK), Turkey

- CRANIRARE: An integrated clinical and scientific approach for craniofacial malformations
- EUROBFNS: Benign Familial Neonatal Seizures (BFNS) as disease model for human idiopathic epilepsies: expansion of the genotype-phenotype correlations and insights into novel disease mechanisms
- Epinostics: “Autoimmune liver diseases” Epitope peptide mapping – The entry to novel and innovative diagnostic and therapeutic application
- EuroRETT: European Network on Rett Syndrome
- EUROSPA: European and Mediterranean network on spastic paraplegias
- HAE-III: Genetics, Pathophysiology, and Therapy of Hereditary Angioedema Type III
- HSCR: International Hirschsprung Disease Consortium
- Kindernet: International Kindler Syndrome Network
- MTMPathies: Myotubularinopathies: common molecular mechanism and tissue specificity
- OSTEOPETR: New Genes and Therapeutic Approaches to Osteopetrosis
- PodoNet: PodoNet: Consortium for Clinical, Genetic and Experimental Research into Hereditary Diseases of the Podocyte
- RISKA: Prospective study of individuals at risk for spinocerebellar ataxia type 1, type 2, type 3 and type 6 (SCA1, SC2, SCA3, SCA6)
- WHIMPath: Understanding the WHIM syndrome and search for new therapies: molecular analysis of CXCR4 functions in leukocyte trafficking and activation