COOKIES POLICY

What are cookies?

A cookie is a file that is downloaded to your computer when you access certain web pages. Cookies allow a web page, among other things, to store and retrieve information about the browsing habits of a user or their equipment and, depending on the information they contain and the way they use their equipment, they can be used to recognize the user.

Types of cookies

Classification of cookies is made according to a series of categories. However, it is necessary to take into account that the same cookie can be included in more than one category.

1. Cookies according to the entity that manages them
   
   Depending on the entity that manages the computer or domain from which the cookies are sent and treat the data obtained, we can distinguish:
   
   
   • Own cookies: those that are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain managed by the editor itself and from which the service requested by the user is provided.
   • Third party cookies: those that are sent to the user's terminal equipment from a computer or domain that is not managed by the publisher, but by another entity that processes the data obtained through the cookies. When cookies are installed from a computer or domain managed by the publisher itself, but the information collected through them is managed by a third party, they cannot be considered as own cookies.
     
     
2. Cookies according to the period of time they remain activated
   
   Depending on the length of time that they remain activated in the terminal equipment, we can distinguish:
   
   
   • Session cookies: type of cookies designed to collect and store data while the user accesses a web page. They are usually used to store information that only is kept to provide the service requested by the user on a single occasion (e.g. a list of products purchased).
   • Persistent cookies: type of cookies in which the data is still stored in the terminal and can be accessed and processed during a period defined by the person responsible for the cookie, which can range from a few minutes to several years.
     
     
3. Cookies according to their purpose
   
   Depending on the purpose for which the data obtained through cookies are processed, we can distinguish between:
   
   
   • Technical cookies: those that allow the user to navigate through a web page, platform or application and the use of different options or services that exist in it, such as controlling traffic and data communication, identifying the session, access to restricted access parts, remember the elements that make up an order, perform the purchase process of an order, make a registration or participation in an event, use security elements during navigation, store content for the broadcast videos or sound or share content through social networks.
   • Personalization cookies: those that allow the user to access the service with some predefined general characteristics based on a series of criteria in the user's terminal, such as the language, the type of browser through which the user accesses the service, the regional configuration from where you access the service, etc.
   • Analytical cookies: those that allow the person responsible for them to monitor and analyse the behaviour of the users of the websites to which they are linked. The information collected through this type of cookies is used in the measurement of the activity of the websites, applications or platforms, and for the elaboration of navigation profiles of the users of said sites, applications and platforms, in order to introduce improvements in the analysis of the data of use made by the users of the service.
     
     

Cookies used on our website

EN-ACTI²NG website uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a simple and easy to use tool that helps website owners to measure how users interact with the content of the site. You can consult more information about the cookies used by Google Analitycs in this link.

Acceptance of the Cookies Policy

EN-ACTI²NG assumes that you accept the use of cookies if you continue browsing, considering that it is a conscious and positive action from which the user's consent is inferred. In this regard, you are previously informed that such behaviour will be interpreted that you accept the installation and use of cookies.

Knowing this information, it is possible to carry out the following actions:

• Accept cookies: if the user presses the acceptance button, this warning will not be displayed again when accessing any page of the portal.
• Review the cookies policy: the user can access to this page in which the use of cookies is detailed, as well as links to modify the browser settings.
  
  

How to modify the configuration of cookies

Using your browser you can restrict, block or delete cookies from any web page. In each browser the process is different, here we show you links on this particular of the most used browsers:

• Internet Explorer
• FireFox
• Chrome
• Safari
  
• Opera

EN-ACTI²NG, A TRAINING PROGRAM FOR PhD STUDENTS AIMED AT IMPROVING TUMOR-SPECIFIC IMMUNE RECEPTORS

The EN-ACTI²NG (European Network on Anti-Cancer Immuno-Therapy Improvement by modification of CAR and TCR Interactions and Nanoscale Geometry) Initial Training Network, funded by the H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions program, emanates from the recent clinical evidence that T cells expressing engineered tumor-specific immune receptors can eradicate certain tumors that do not respond to conventional treatment. This important therapeutic approach (considered by the journal Science ‘Scientific Breakthrough of the Year’ in December 2013) is still in a very early phase of development and currently requires a well-trained workforce to address challenges such as development of tumor-specific receptors for a wider array of tumors, improvement in efficiency of these receptors, a better safety profile with regard to on- and off-target toxicity and more efficient transfer of basic research findings to the clinic.

The EN-ACTI²NG program aims
1) to train PhD students with expertise in development of new and improved T cell-mediated cancer immuno-therapies;
2) to endow the students with the ability to establish efficient communication between the academic and industrial research environments and between scientists and the general public;
3) to improve T cell mediated immuno-therapy against cancer by the identification and development of new cancer-specific immune receptors and enhancing their function by identifying and modifying their molecular mechanism of action.

To reach these objectives we designed individual research projects for the students ranging from biophysical analysis of immune receptors, via molecular modification of their structure and testing their tumor killing capacity in vitro and in vivo to development of microfluidic devices that provide new means of analysis and selection of immune receptor-bearing cells. Each student will have the unique opportunity to experience these complementary approaches within specific secondments in research laboratories, clinics and companies. This will further stimulate synergistic interaction between the projects, enabling the generation of innovative results that could otherwise not be achieved. Extensive training in research-specific skills, career development and a continuous training in communication skills will help the students to become facilitators of transformation of scientific innovation into products with social and economic value. All students will have the possibility to enroll in doctoral programs of the hosting or associated institutions in order to obtain a PhD degree.