Combination therapies against cancer: new opportunities for transnational research

Basic Information

Despite advances in targeted therapies, immunotherapies, or radiotherapy, different obstacles, and challenges remain to be solved. Current limitations of in vitro personalized systems allowing a fast and reliable testing, new platforms to achieve combination therapy screening, new methods to achieve synergism in combination therapy and new combinations of radiotherapy with drugs or immunotherapy, remain, slowing down further applications of combination therapy in the clinic. Thus, there is a need for the identification of new and fast strategies to assay for individualized combination therapies that may help in the clinic to overcome tumour resistance and improve clinical outcomes avoiding undesired side effects. This topic should evolve from the laboratory to favour the clinical implementation of the strategies from the bench to the bedside.

Network TRANSCAN-3
Website https://transcan.eu/news-and-resources/updates/preliminary-announcement-upcoming-call-jtc-2024.kl
Aim of the joint call The main purpose of this call will be design of patient preclinical models for combination therapies. Translational research using tumour samples collected from retrospective and/or prospective cohorts of patients.
Type of joint call Two Stages - Call with pre-proposals and full proposals submissions
Events
Launch date 26/04/2024
Deadline Pre-Proposal 05/07/2024 Submitted proposal: n/a
Deadline Full-Proposal 29/11/2024 Submitted proposal: n/a
Evaluation End Date 01/05/2025 Successful proposal: n/a Proposals funded: n/a
Is call co-funded? No
Call follow up funding n/a
Call reasons n/a
Research fields
  • Health
Type of research n/a
Target groups n/a
Participating networks n/a

Organisations Participating

Country Organisation
Austria Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Belgium National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS)
Canada Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
France ARC French foundation for Cancer Research (ARC-France)
Germany Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Italy Ministry of Health (MOH/MDS)
Italy REGIONAL FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH (FRRB)
Italy Tuscany Region (TOS)
Latvia Latvian Council of Science (LCS)
Luxembourg National Fund for Research (FNR)
Norway Norwegian Cancer Society (NCS)
Norway Research Council of Norway (RCN)
Poland National Centre for Research and Development (NCBiR)
Romania Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI)
Slovakia Slovak Academy of Science (SAS/SAV)
Spain Institute of Health Carlos III (ISCIII)
Spain Spanish Association Against Cancer Scientific Foundation (AECC FC)
Taiwan National Science and Technology Council / Ministry of Science and Technology (NSTC / MoST Taiwan)
Türkiye The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)