Portuguese League Against Cancer and FCT partner to support cancer research

The Portuguese League Against Cancer (LPCC) joins FCT to finance the participation of the team from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), led by Manuel Coelho, in the European project NanoEFEct, which brings together four partners from Austria, Norway and Germany.

1M€ is the global funding allocated to the NanoEFEct consortium to study the mechanisms of early detection of colorectal carcinoma through fluorescence endoscopy optimized through nano particles. The funding of 180 thousand Euros of the FEUP team, led by Manuel Coelho, granted by FCT, will have a co-funding of 25 thousand Euros from LPCC.

Signed in early 2014, the protocol between the two institutions already includes co-financing to support the participation of Portuguese research teams in projects selected under ERA-TRANSCAN, a European platform for translational research in cancer, which includes 25 funding agencies from 19 Member States.

By making this commitment, the LPCC intends to contribute to research in this area, by supporting projects to develop new and potentially more effective interventions for the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of cancer.