TIREX | Koç University Transplant Immunology Research Center of Excellence

Summary
The strategic goal of TIREX is to place KU School of Medicine (KU SoM) at the forefront of Transplant Immunology Research, Development and Innovation (R&D+I) by the establishment of a Transplant Immunology Research Centre of Excellence, anchored in Istanbul. The Centre will entail the vision and ambition to: (i) fully leverage on the considerable national and South-Eastern Europe potential in the research and clinical field of transplant immunology, (ii) liaison and act as a Key Knowledge Hub to link local and regional research capacities in the field with the main European Centres of Excellence; (iii) provide a direct interface with well-established international research and clinical communities in particular in Middle-East and Asia, and (iv) effectively address the health, demographic change and wellbeing societal national, regional and European challenges through successive scientific advancements. Furthermore, TIREX is expected to help KU design and deploy a sustainable structural change management process that will be initiated with the recruitment of the ERA Chair Holder and its team of promising researchers and which will be in line with the ERA priorities and best practices that similar European outstanding institutions apply to promote scientific and research excellence.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/952512
Start date: 01-09-2020
End date: 31-05-2026
Total budget - Public funding: 2 499 937,50 Euro - 2 499 937,00 Euro
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The strategic goal of TIREX is to place KU School of Medicine (KU SoM) at the forefront of Transplant Immunology Research, Development and Innovation (R&D+I) by the establishment of a Transplant Immunology Research Centre of Excellence, anchored in Istanbul. The Centre will entail the vision and ambition to: (i) fully leverage on the considerable national and South-Eastern Europe potential in the research and clinical field of transplant immunology, (ii) liaison and act as a Key Knowledge Hub to link local and regional research capacities in the field with the main European Centres of Excellence; (iii) provide a direct interface with well-established international research and clinical communities in particular in Middle-East and Asia, and (iv) effectively address the health, demographic change and wellbeing societal national, regional and European challenges through successive scientific advancements. Furthermore, TIREX is expected to help KU design and deploy a sustainable structural change management process that will be initiated with the recruitment of the ERA Chair Holder and its team of promising researchers and which will be in line with the ERA priorities and best practices that similar European outstanding institutions apply to promote scientific and research excellence.

Status

SIGNED

Call topic

WIDESPREAD-06-2020

Update Date

17-05-2024
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Horizon 2020
H2020-EU.4. SPREADING EXCELLENCE AND WIDENING PARTICIPATION
H2020-EU.4.c. Establishing ‚ERA Chairs’
H2020-WIDESPREAD-2018-2020-6
WIDESPREAD-06-2020 ERA Chairs