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Project: PANACEA: What makes some genes take the cancer route?

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January 2, 2009

On Januray 1, 2009, a new project titled "Quantitative pathway analysis of natural variation in complex disease signaling in C. elegans" (PANACEA) was granted, funded by the European Union, FP7, Health.

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Within PANACEA we will use C. elegans to address the following two key questions:

  1. how the genetic background affects complex disease signaling pathways
  2. whether we can predict the effect of the genetic background on these pathways.