GRANT PROPOSALS INVOLVING THE BCLC

On December 10, 2002, the European Commission has launched the first call for the 6th Framework Programme (FP6). Various groups participating in the BCLC had expressed an interest for submitting a proposal. These documents were submitted June 7, 2002 and can be downloaded below. However, on the basis of received EOIs, thematic priorities have shifted considerably in the final description of FP6, and a number of these proposals are now difficult to fit in. A meeting held at Lincoln's Inn Fields (London, UK) on 16 December 2002, discussed a potential Framework 6 application.

• Network of Excellence. Clinical management of familial breast cancer. Prepared by Diana Eccles (Southampton, United Kingdom).
• Integrated Project. Polygenic susceptibility to breast cancer. Prepared by Peter Devilee (Leiden, The Netherlands).
• Integrated Project. Assessment of the therapeutic repsonse in breast cancer (ASTHER). Prepared by Hagay Sobol (Marseille, France)
• Integrated Project. Genomic basis of hereditary breast cancer in populations with founder effects. Prepared by Ake Borg (Lund, Sweden).
• Minutes of the London strategy meeting.