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Post-Infection Long-Term Conditions Research

Funds research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of long-term health conditions that persist after a viral, bacterial, parasitic or fungal infection has cleared.

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Five Research and Innovation Actions are expected from this topic, each between EUR 6 million and EUR 8 million, covering work from identifying risk factors and biomarkers through to early-stage clinical trials, specifically Phase 1 and Phase 2 trials where a pharmacological treatment is involved. Proposals are expected to pay specific attention to how sex and gender, age, disability, ethnicity, s…

This call covers chronic conditions that follow any kind of microbial infection, from persistent inflammation to organ damage, and wants better risk-factor identification, biomarkers and early-stage clinical trials of treatments. Cancer-related post-infection research is excluded, since it's covered by the separate Cancer Mission.

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Award typeiThe form of funding - grant, equity, loan, tax credit, etc.Grant
Match fundingiThe share of project costs you must cover yourself. 0% = fully funded.-
Funding pooliThe total budget available across all awards in this round.€39.3M

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