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TRANSFORMATIVE NON-INVASIVE CAUSAL MECHANOSTICS PLATFORM TO EFFECTIVELY TRIAGE AND TREAT ENDOMETRIOSIS

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Uno strumento più efficace per la diagnosi dell’endometriosi

Si stima che circa 200 milioni di donne e ragazze in tutto il mondo soffrano di endometriosi, con sintomi quali dolori mestruali, sanguinamento mestruale abbondante e dolore pelvico cronico. Come altre patologie croniche, anche l’endometriosi è difficile da diagnosticare e da curare. La laparoscopia è attualmente l’unico metodo per diagnosticare la malattia. Il progetto TRANSCEND, finanziato dal CEI, mira a introdurre un nuovo strumento diagnostico in grado di prevedere il rischio di malattia sulla base delle sue cause sottostanti. Questo strumento è non invasivo e non richiede un intervento chirurgico. Il progetto mira a consentire una diagnosi precoce, a garantire un’assistenza più personalizzata e a migliorare la qualità della vita.

Obiettivo

Complex chronic diseases like endometriosis consume 80% of Europe’s healthcare budget. Endometriosis is a painful condition in which the lining of the uterus grows outside the uterus. It affects 200 million women worldwide at the peak of their productive and reproductive years and costs Europe €70bn/year.

As with other complex chronic diseases, endometriosis results from multiple combinations of genetic, clinical and environmental factors, making it difficult to diagnose and treat. On average it takes 8 years to diagnose, typically involving 10+ medical consultations. The current diagnostic standard is laparoscopy - an invasive, expensive and painful surgery.

Neither non-invasive, accurate early-diagnostic tools nor effective treatments currently exist for endometriosis. As many as 60% of endometriosis cases are undiagnosed. As such, a pressing medical need exists for an affordable and scalable precision diagnostic solution to guide personalised treatments.

Building on successful results from our Horizon 2020 FEMaLe project, this EIC Accelerator project will clinically validate the world’s first accurate, cost-effective, scalable and simple to use diagnostic test to predict an individual's risk of developing endometriosis based on the underlying causal mechanisms of the disease. Using these novel insights, this project will demonstrate how the diagnostic can be used to target clinically repurposed drugs to successfully treat specific disease subtypes.

Having identified critical disease signatures and potential drug candidates to repurpose (TRL6 achieved), EIC support is essential to certify our novel diagnostic as a Class C IVDR device and prove the efficacy of repurposed drugs to treat endometriosis for a €4bn global market.

Overcoming these remaining risky and challenging barriers will enable us to achieve €251m in revenues, €171m in net profits and grow our highly skilled team to 73 FTEs by Y5 post-project, thereby realising our full commercial potential.

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HORIZON-EIC-ACC - HORIZON EIC Accelerator

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PRECISIONLIFE LTD
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 2 136 005,34
Indirizzo
UNIT 8B BANKSIDE, HANBOROUGH BUSINESS PARK, LONG HANBOROUGH
OX29 8LJ Witney
Regno Unito
PMI
Sì
Regione
South East (England) Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Oxfordshire
Tipo di attività
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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