An EU Commitment towards UNderstanding CANcer
Implementation plans of two convergent European initiatives, the Horizon Europe Mission Cancer and the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, spur for a European Initiative to UNderstand CANcer (UNCAN.eu). More precisely, the UNCAN.eu initiative is one of the 13 specific objectives of the Mission on Cancer and one of the ten flagships of the Europe’s Cancer Beating plan. The Coordination and Support Action (CSA) named “4.UNCAN.eu” is planned to generate a blueprint for UNCAN.eu.
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Member States
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Core and Advisory Partners
3M€
Funding
Ambition
The CSA 4.UNCAN.eu deliverable is a blueprint for UNCAN.eu initiative. The global ambition of UNCAN.eu initiative is to achieve the next breakthrough needed to advance the understanding of cancer mechanisms in order to improve cancer prevention, early diagnosis and treatment, providing a basis for saving millions of European citizens’ lives.
The blueprint for UNCAN.eu will propose to set up a European Federated Cancer Research data hub and to generate a series of use cases, addressing major challenges in cancer research. These ambitious and innovative, but realistic and focussed, use cases will be cross-border and trans-disciplinary research programmes built in a problem-solving manner. Results of these use cases will feed the Cancer Research data hub with findable, accessible, interoperable, and re-usable (FAIR) cancer research data.
These research data will be combined with patient health and any other relevant data (e.g., from longitudinal cohorts, geographical observations, consumer and lifestyle data) at an unprecedented scale. UNCAN.eu that will bring all relevant players and information together, based on existing efforts in Europe and beyond.
A key expected outcome is that the new understanding gained from the analysis of this wealth of data could be applied to other diseases beyond cancer.
Crédits : Claire Antoine / Nouvelle Vague
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News and Events
PRESS RELEASE: Brussels, 14th November 2023 – The 4.UNCAN.eu Final Event took place on November 14th, marking a significant milestone in the 4.UNCAN.eu Coordination and Support Action (CSA). During this meeting, a strategic roadmap outlining the implementation of a European Federated Cancer Research Data Hub was presented to the European Commission. The event garnered… Read More »UNCAN.eu’s Closing Event Successfully Unveils Blueprint for Future of Cancer Research
Effective cancer diagnosis, treatment and control depend on interactions among numerous distinct factors, from technology to data to skills to sociology. But a crucial influence is the extent to which the health system takes account of the distinct perspectives of the many different groups of interdependent stakeholders concerned with cancer, including patients, practitioners and planners.… Read More »Mobilising Collaboration among Stakeholders to Optimise the Growing Potential of Data for Tackling Cancer
On 13th– 14th September 2023 we organized the 4.UNCAN.eu Workshop: “Mapping European Cancer Research Infrastructures” in Brussels (Belgium). The Workshop meeting connected several European initiatives, together with 4.UNCAN.eu CSA partners and discussed UNCAN.eu with representative of the European Commission. On the first day, we discussed to the latest update on the UNCAN project, followed by… Read More »UNCAN.eu Workshop on European Cancer Research Infrastructures
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