PREDEMICS (coordinator Pr Sylvie van der WERF) - contact soizic.sergeant@pasteur.fr

PREDEMICS (http://predemics.biomedtrain.eu) is an FP7 project funded by the European Commission under Grant Number 278433.PREDEMICS aims to unravel the complex interactions between factors involved in the various stages of emergence of zoonotic RNA viruses - lyssaviruses, Ebola disease virus, HEV, arboviruses (JEV, WNV, ZIKV, CHIKV), influenza A virus and MERS coronavirus - representing key transmission routes.Through its cross-disciplinary expertise in veterinary and human medicine, PREDEMICS thus provides a platform for global analysis of the factors involved, causal mechanisms, potential risk, and conditions favoured for emergence, maintenance, epidemic and potentially pandemic expansion of diseases in humans due to zoonotic viruses but also to describe strategies to control and mitigate the burden of those diseases.