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FLow detection of virUses by graphene Field Effect Transistor microarrays

Project description

New sensor detection for infectious zoonotic virus

Infectious zoonotic diseases (transmitting from animals to humans) are on the rise, increasing the risk of pandemics. New technologies are needed to monitor high-risk areas for pathogen transmission and prevent major human, social, political, and economic costs. Despite the European Parliament’s call for continuous and harmonised data collection on animal farms, current methods are insufficient for ongoing, automatic detection of all pathogens. The EIC-funded FLUFET project will develop an automated sensor capable of continuously detecting viral targets, including unknown viruses. This sensor will use graphene Field Effect Transistors (gFETs) to identify infectious zoonotic threats before they spread to humans, enabling proactive pandemic prevention. It will also consider external factors affecting global human health.

Objective

Infectious zoonotic diseases that jump from animals to humans are on the rise, and the risk of a new pandemic is higher now than ever before. Future health models need to consider the close connection between human and animal health, and new technologies capable of continuously monitor places where the risk of pathogens transmission is higher (shared by animals and humans) are urgently needed to prevent the human, socio-political and economic cost from pandemics.
Continuous monitoring and harmonized data collection of animal farms are required by the European Parliament. However, current methods are not suitable for an in-situ, continuous and automatic detection, so today only a limited number of specific pathogens are monitored.
FLUFET will be the first automatized sensor able of continuously detecting a broad spectrum of viral targets, and with the unprecedent capability of detecting unknown viruses. This sensor will be based on graphene Field Effect Transistors (gFETs). FLUFET will detect infectious zoonotic threats before they spread to humans and create potential outbreaks, opening the door for a pandemics prevention continuum. It will bring the possibility to incorporate the long-distance external factors heavily affecting human health at worldwide level.
FLUFET brings interesting opportunities for Health and pandemics experts and managers, Policymakers and regulatory/ standardization bodies, Animal farmers and their associations, Precision livestock farming solution providers, Investors and researchers in the multiple disciplines involved in the consortium.
FLUFET requires an interdisciplinary consortium including partners from computational biophysics, graphene technology, nanotechnology, sensing, microfluidics, virology, surface engineering and sensor design and electronics.

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Coordinator

UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUNA
Net EU contribution
€ 763 000,00
Address
CALLE DE LA MAESTRANZA 9
15001 La Coruna
Spain

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Region
Noroeste Galicia A Coruña
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 763 000,00

Participants (6)