Objective
"This proposal expands the ongoing EPoCA project (GA 101145795) under the HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3 emergency fast-track mechanism to address this diagnostic bottleneck directly. The consortium will re-engineer, validate, and deploy its graphene field-effect transistor (BioGFET) point-of-care platform — previously developed for Zaire ebolavirus — to detect BVD (Bundinbugyo) at decentralized health facilities in DRC and Uganda. The technical approach combines adapted single-layer GFET sensor substrates with BVD-specific bioreceptors, a low-power edge computing reader running local ML inference for signal correction, and the iris360 cloud platform for encrypted real-time epidemiological surveillance.
The 18-month work plan is organized across 8 work packages covering sensor redesign and biofunctionalization (WP3), hardware engineering and field ruggedization (WP4), digital interoperability and AI analytics (WP5), retrospective analytical validation against a 1,000-sample biobank (WP6), and prospective investigational field deployment at active triage sites (WP7). Governance, international coordination with WHO and Africa CDC under the ""One Response"" framework, and exploitation and dissemination complete the structure (WP1, WP2, WP8)."
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HORIZON.2.1 - Health
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HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2026-03-EBOLA-IBA - HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2026-03-EBOLA-IBA: Mobilisation of research funds for the expansion of activities of project EPoCA (101145795) in the context of the recent Bundibugyo outbreak in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda
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HORIZON-JU-RIA - HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
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50018 Zaragoza
Spain
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