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Simona-Roxana Georgescu

- UNIVERSITATEA DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE "CAROL DAVILA"

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Head of Dermatology Department - SPITALUL CLINIC DE BOLI INFECTIOASE SI TROPICALE "DR.VICTOR BABES" (Romania)

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PROlonging ACTIVE life for an independent and healthy AGEING Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA 2013 - call
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1686 2014 - 2017

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: SPITALUL DE BOLI INFECTIOASE "DR.VICTOR BABES"

Project partners: SPITALUL DE BOLI INFECTIOASE "DR.VICTOR BABES" (RO); UNIV.DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE - CAROL DAVILA (RO); INSTITUTUL NAT.GERONTOLOGIE SI GERIATRIE "ANA ASLAN" (RO); INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE IN INFORMATICA - ICI BUCURESTI (RO); SIVECO ROMANIA SA (RO)

Affiliation: SPITALUL DE BOLI INFECTIOASE "DR.VICTOR BABES" (RO)

Project website: https://proactiveageing-prezentare.ici.ro/

Abstract:

ProActive Ageing project aims to contribute to a better social inclusion of ageing people by providing services based on modern IT technology to facilitate and promote access to education and the labour market to this vulnerable group. Moreover, it will provide practical, motivating, reliable and friendly informatics tools, dedicated to ageing persons, experts in the field of health, those who take care of ageing people, be they professionals or not, and business managers.

The main output of the project is the ProActive Ageing integrated platform for online services, structured into four thematic modules providing practical, engaging, accessible, motivating and customized tools that support longlife learning, with an accessible content for a large range of users and that are able to support social interaction and adaptability of individuals and of business environment to the increasing ageing of the population:

• “A Tool for the Age Management of Active Life in Businesses” module: it’s an informatics tool that offers recommendations and a set of good practices, customized for the Romanian business environment, for implementing a practical age management, in correlation with European regulations.

• “Comprehensive learning courses for (non)specialists taking care of ageing people” module: it offers innovative and practical training courses for specialist or non - specialists carers, including family, to improve and better understand their attributions in taking care of ageing persons.

• “Centre for Active Ageing” module: it provides online person-centric tools for a better knowledge and understanding of the ageing process, with lifelong learning facilities designed for ageing persons that want to remain active, healthy and independent.

• „A Toolkit to Support Medical Research Addressed to Healthy and Active Ageing” module: it provides centralized services for a better management of degenerative diseases, by providing instruments for specific innovative strategies/protocols/ algorithms, and knowledge exchange that will enhance the quality of researches and healthcare in the anti-ageing domain.

ProActive Ageing characteristics: ● it has as targeted beneficiaries the ageing people (i.e.>50 years old), not the elderly, as the great majority of similar products has ● it addresses specialists and non-specialists, using appropriate content and interfaces ● it goes clearly beyond state of the art in terms of increasing efficiency (e.g. easy customization and adaptation to specific needs and preferences, with efficient data and context sharing between different required services), improving reliability and easy end-user acceptance ● because in Romania there is a lack of IT tools addressing the age management, ProActive Ageing platform will provide practical and ready-to-use guidance to the business environment on how to improve the management of demographic change and age diversity.

For designing and implementing the objectives, the ProActive Ageing consortium has a balanced composition, well structured and diversified due to various IT and medical specialties of the team members. This project will consolidate this already established partnership, will expand and enrich the already achieved common results by facilitating an openness for a broad range of research, from specific disciplinary to interdisciplinary, from short-term to long-term new projects.

Improving oral and systemic health using dental works from modified alloys Call name: Joint Applied Research Projects - PCCA 2013 - call
PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-0869 2014 - 2017

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIV.DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE - CAROL DAVILA

Project partners: UNIV.DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE - CAROL DAVILA (RO); UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCURESTI (RO); INSTITUTUL DE CHIMIE FIZICA - ILIE MURGULESCU (RO); UNIVERSITATEA BUCURESTI (RO); R&D CONSULTANTA SI SERVICII S.R.L. (RO); DENTAL ART GROUP SRL (RO)

Affiliation: UNIV.DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE - CAROL DAVILA (RO)

Project website: http://cercetare-umf.ro/proiecte_parteneriate

Abstract:

The project proposal entitled “Improving oral and systemic health using dental restorations from modified alloys” is addressed to the priority field 4 Health and has as goal the improvement of oral and systemic health of the population through implementing new methods of prevention and intervention at national level having capacity of international expansion. Having the central objective the improvement of the health level mainly through the offer of medical services of prevention, the project will contribute to the reduction of costs in the field of health. The offer is elaborated under the competent and representative direction of the University of Medicine and Pharmacy “Carol Davila”, the Faculty of Dental Medicine, another 2 Universities, 1 Institute of research of the Romanian Academy and 2 co-financing SMEs. This consortium is by definition inter- and pluri-disciplinary and exhibits synergy and complementarity due to the contribution of Medicine, Chemistry and Biology to the achievement of the central objective and it shall benefit of the un-financed support of an European partner (Universita’ del Piemonte Orientale “Amedeo Avogadro”) well known in the field of oral pathology, partner which shall participate to the activity of research and dissemination of results. This partner with experience and tradition will enhance the chances of the project both at level of the choice of the best methods of prevention and intervention in oral health and also at the level growing the visibility of the research. As derived objectives to achieve the central goal, the project takes into consideration the formation of target groups of patients according to the following criteria of selection: the detection of lichenoid reactions, of a metallic pigmentary lesions; the existence of dental alloys (CoCr, CoCrMo, etc. used at mass level) which favoured the release of ions and the absorption due to materials imperfections. The project will also form proof-lots including in the study a high number of patients comprising also patients who did not use dental alloys, fact which will allow the set out of the cause of the diseases and of the most appropriate treatments for all the studied cases. Both the scientific background and the expertise of the 6 partners as well as the richness of human and material resources represent a warranty that it is possible to overlap the knowledge about the creation of an improved alloy (CoCrZr or Nb) capable to reduce the potential for serious diseases such as Lichen Planus. The project analyses the sick tissue and the amount of ions released chemically and biologically and to compare the behaviour of the existing materials with that of our new alloy. The improvement of the dental alloy will aim at both the composition as well as the surface state at micro- and nano- level. The trial of these materials will be performed in simulating conditions respecting the corresponding regulations form the European space of operation including the norms of bio-ethics and bio-security and the informed agreement of the patient. The results of the project will be disseminated and exploited both at level of health services as well as at level of co-financing partners who will develop technology and innovating dental works from improved alloys at reduced costs, fact that emphasizes the co-relation between the thematic of the project and the strategy of development of the SMEs partners. Obtaining a patent and publishing 5 research works in international publications of high impact is a prognosis of result indicators that complete the process indicators. The benefits of implementing the project and its exploitation after ending will grow the quality of life through precocious detection of diseases and their treatment and also through the proposal of a new less dangerous and less toxic alloy. The co-financing SMEs will develop as well the commercialisation capacity subsequent to the production of materials with high market potential.

Existing cerebral correlations between sexual and psychosomatic processes could stay at origin of two distinct bio-psycho-sexual profiles in humans Call name: Exploratory Research Projects - PCE-2012 call
PN-II-ID-PCE-2012-4-0409 2013 - 2016

Role in this project:

Coordinating institution: UNIV.DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE - CAROL DAVILA

Project partners: UNIV.DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE - CAROL DAVILA (RO)

Affiliation: UNIV.DE MEDICINA SI FARMACIE - CAROL DAVILA (RO)

Project website: http://www.scholar.ro/finasterida

Abstract:

Psychosexual dualism is a relatively new theory developed in literature during the past decade. Starting from basic neurophysiological mechanisms, this new approach changed the paradigm related to neurological control of sexual responses, explain the role of cognitive and sexual neuromodulators and offer perspectives for the understanding of cerebral interferences between cognition and sexuality. Taking into account this psychosexual context, it is not surprising that studies have revealed numerous bilateral correlations among sexual and psychosomatic elements (between sexual orientation and sexual neuromodulators, between sexual orientation and hand preference, between sexual orientation and cognitive pattern, etc.). The project is aimed to verify if the existing numerous bilateral correlations (among sexual and psychosomatic elements) are interconnected as a whole, due to the fact that sexuality and cognition would correspond to interdependent neurophysiologic cerebral mechanisms. To address this, the project will study if the mentioned psychosomatic and sexual elements aggregate in two distinct bio-psycho-sexual profiles. If so, this project further proposes a direct applicability for this new (bio-psycho-sexual) entity, consisting in determination of a certain (unknown or undeterminable) variable through the other determinable elements which are associated.

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