EURO-RA

This Network is funded by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European Union. Co-ordinated by Immunogenetics at Rostock University.

The Marie Curie Research Training Network, EURO-RA, brings together leading groups in the field of Arthritis research in Europe.

The main scientific goal is to capitulize the modern postgenome methodologies such as genome wide expression profiling (microarrays), proteom analysis, comparative genomics , and genome wide mutagenesis to study Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), the most common chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease affecting the European population.

RA is a systemic, inflammatory, progresseive, chronic and destructive disease affecting primarily periphal joints, and it is associated with pain, disfigurement,and varoius extraarticular manifestations (organ failures). This combined effort of 12 research groups from 9 European countries aims to identify susceptibility genes that determine the onset, progression and chronicity of autoimmune arthritis.

This in turn will provide an excellent opportunity to improve our knowledge on in vivo disease mechanism and, hence, to develop more rational forms of therapy.

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