Project Number
Convenors
Steering Committee chaired by Professor Dominique Charron
(Professor of Immunology at Université Paris VII, France) with 17 members from participating and non-participating European countries.
12 contributing ESF Member Organisations from 11 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland) + Israel.
Abstract
Specifics of the programme: heterogeneity both of Europes population and environment make it an ideal experimental laboratory for this kind of study. The point here is that genetic predisposition and environmental condition play an equal role in determining allergic response, and Europe provides sufficient diversity of both. A European database is clearly needed to store regional differences both of exposure to allergens, such as grass pollens, house dust mites and olive birch pollens, and of the prevalence of allergy related polymmorphic genes.
Duration
This Programme was approved by the ESF Executive Council in November 1996 for a period of three years from January 1997 to end 1999, with a possibility of a further two-year extension.
Funding ended in 1999 but the programme will continue activities through to autumn 2000.
