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 Context: Half of all +65 year-olds suffer from Osteoporosis. The desease causes the weakened skeleton to break spontaneously, severely reducing the quality of life and the autonomy of sufferers
 Aim: To identify risk factors so as to prevent osteoporosis and its complications
 Cost: CHF 600'000.-

Arthritis

 Context : Arthritis touches one in two people. It destroys the cartilage in the joints, causing pain and serious disability
 Aim: To gather all the information needed to launch therapeutic testing aimed at slowing down the destruction of cartilage
 Cost: CHF 291'800.-

Medical genetics

 Context: Many mental disabilities remain unexplained because of the limitations of current methods of chromosomal analysis. A new technology, called "CHG-Microarray" helps to resolve this problem
 Aim: To identify the gene(s) responsible, and to understand the diseases' mechanisms, so as to allow the screening and treatment of these disabilities. 
 Cost: CHF 120'000.-