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Next generation toolbox for greener pharmaceuticals design & manufacturing towards reduced environmental impact

Descripción del proyecto

Lograr medicamentos ecológicos para reducir la polución

Los medicamentos que nos salvan pueden terminar perjudicándonos si no se desechan de la manera adecuada. Por desgracia, la concentración de productos farmacéuticos en los cursos de agua está alcanzando niveles peligrosos. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto ENVIROMED, financiado con fondos europeos, reducirá la brecha de conocimiento en lo que respecta al efecto que producen los compuestos farmacéuticos y sus derivados en el medio ambiente. ENVIROMED arrojará luz sobre el impacto ambiental de dichos compuestos a lo largo de su ciclo de vida. Los hallazgos proporcionarán información sobre la presencia, la persistencia y el destino de los productos farmacéuticos en el medio ambiente. El proyecto también tendrá como objetivo desarrollar un conjunto de tecnologías que permitan una producción farmacéutica más ecológica y, en general, más eficiente.

Objetivo

Pharmaceuticals have undoubtably made our world a better place, ensuring longer and healthier lives. However, pharmaceuticals and their active metabolites are rapidly emerging environmental toxicants. It is thus critical that we fully understand, and mitigate where nec-essary, the environmental impact resulting from their production, use and disposal. In this direction, ENVIROMED addresses two aspects of the environmental impact of pharmaceuticals, a) impact of the processes in manufacturing the compound, and b) impact of the compound itself, during its lifecycle. The project narrows the knowledge gap when it comes to the effect of pharmaceutical compounds, and their derivatives, in the environment as it enables the better understanding the environmental impact of such compounds, throughout their lifecycle. It aims to offer (via extensive monitoring campaigns & scientific studies) information regarding occurrence of pharmaceuticals in the environment, their persistence, environmental fate, and toxicity (via in-vitro & in-vivo models) as well as application of in-silico methods to provide information about the basic risk management and fate prediction in the environment. Brief ideas about toxicity endpoints, available ecotoxicity databases, and expert systems employed for rapid toxicity predictions of ecotoxicity of pharmaceuticals will also be taken into account, in order to have a comprehensive approach to pharmaceuticals' Lifecycle Assessment (LCA). Moreover, the project aims at developing a set of technologies that enable greener and overall, more efficient pharmaceuticals production, which include: a) Green-by-design in-silico drug development; b) Novel sensing to allow reduction of rinsing chemicals and cycles; c) a robust Continuous Biomanufacturing line (CBM), which makes use of AI-enabled process optimisation and prediction, using data assimilation based on chemical sensing and energy disaggregation/monitoring. Training activities and a robust exploitation

Coordinador

RISA SICHERHEITSANALYSEN GMBH
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 902 500,00
Dirección
XANTENER STRASSE 11
10707 Berlin
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Pyme

Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.

Región
Berlin Berlin Berlin
Tipo de actividad
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
Enlaces
Coste total
€ 902 500,00

Participantes (15)

Socios (3)