Objective Respiratory Tract Infections (RTIs) are caused by a variety of bacterial, viral, fungal and other pathogens. RTIs are major causes of morbidity and mortality in adults and children worldwide causing millions of deaths each year. RTIs affecting the lung parenchyma (pneumonia) can be classified into three main categories: Community Acquired Pneumonia (CAP); Hospital Acquired Pneumonia (HAP) which includes Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP); and opportunistic pathogens causing pneumonia in immunosuppressed patients (Opportunistic RTIs or ORTIs). RTIs are difficult to diagnose accurately and current standard microbiological culture based tests are laborious and time consuming with a turnaround time to results > 30 hours. Thus, all ill patients presenting with CAP, HAP, VAP or ORTIs are initially treated empirically with antibiotics, without an accurate identification of the causative microorganism and associated antibiotic susceptibility profile. This leads to inappropriate use of antibiotics, which can increase patient morbidity and mortality. Therefore, there is a great need for rapid molecular diagnostics tests capable of identifying a large range of microorganisms and antibiotic resistances rapidly and accurately so that appropriate therapy can be instituted on first consultation. Accurate pathogen identification and resistance profiling is also important for the epidemiological surveillance of pneumonia. The aims of the RiD-RTI project are (through a unique partnership of SMEs, universities and hospitals from 4 countries) to develop and evaluate three diagnostics products for the rapid diagnosis of CAP, HAP/VAP and ORTIs, based on a novel “sample-in, answer-out” diagnostic platform. The diagnostics products will be designed to be ‘near patient’, reliable, cost-effective and user friendly allowing for the rapid (< 2 hrs) and accurate detection, identification, quantification (for selected targets) and molecular drug susceptibility testing of RTIs. Fields of science medical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesRNA virusescoronaviruses Programme(s) FP7-HEALTH - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Health Topic(s) HEALTH.2012.2.3.0-1 - Diagnostics for infectious diseases in humans Call for proposal FP7-HEALTH-2012-INNOVATION-2 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Coordinator UCL Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Institute for Women’s Health Address Gower street WC1E 6BT London United Kingdom See on map Region London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Michael Browne (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Mobidiag Oy Finland EU contribution € 1 529 800,00 Address Tukholmankatu 00290 Helsinki See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Antti Ojala (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data GENEWAVE SAS France EU contribution € 1 827 180,00 Address Rue pierre fontaine 4 91000 Evry See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Yann Marcy (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY Ireland EU contribution € 926 364,00 Address University road H91 Galway See on map Region Ireland Northern and Western West Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Mari Vahey (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HOPITAUX DE PARIS Participation ended France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 55 boulevard diderot 75012 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Val-de-Marne Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Alix Pillot (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Other funding No data UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALSNHS FOUNDATION TRUST United Kingdom EU contribution € 129 473,00 Address Euston road 250 NW1 2PG London See on map Region London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Joe Mwanza (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Other funding No data
