Objective
The PharmaSea project focuses on obstacles in marine biodiscovery research, development and commercialization and brings together a broad interdisciplinary team of academic and industry researchers and specialists to address and overcome these. The partners are ideally placed to demonstrate how to widen the bottlenecks and increase the flow of ideas and products derived from the marine microbiome towards a greater number of successes in a larger number of application areas. Despite the tremendous potential of marine biodiscovery, exploitation, particularly at a commercial scale, has been hampered by a number of constraints. These relate to access (physical and legal), genetics of the organisms, compound isolation, structure elucidation, early reliable validation of biological activity and best mechanisms of flow-through into exploitation. PharmaSea will solve these chronic bottlenecks by developing essential actions beyond the state of the art and linking them with best practice and appropriate pragmatic approaches. The robust pipeline structure established within PharmaSea will process a wide genetic basis including marine microbial strain collections held by partners and new strain collections from extreme environments (deep, cold and hot vent habitats) to produce new products with desirable characteristics for development by the SME partners in three accessible market sectors, health (infection, inflammation, CNS diseases), personal care and nutrition. The global aim of PharmaSea is to produce two compounds at larger scale and advance them to pre-clinical evaluation. To address relevant challenges in marine biodiscovery related to policy and legal issues, PharmaSea will bring together practitioners, legal experts, policy advisors/makers and other stakeholders, focusing on the feasibility of harmonising, aligning and complementing current legal frameworks with recommendations and ready to use solutions tailored to marine biodiscovery.
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Call for proposal
FP7-KBBE-2012-6-singlestage
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Coordinator
3000 Leuven
Belgium
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Participants (24)
AB24 3FX ABERDEEN
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EH3 9EP EDINBURGH
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9019 Tromso
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8400 OOSTENDE
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CB1 2BX CAMBRIDGE
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18100 Armilla Granada
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T12 YN60 Cork
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13509 BERLIN
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80121 Napoli
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00185 Roma
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15782 Santiago De Compostela
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CB4 0WF CAMBRIDGE
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04103 Leipzig
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2800 Kongens Lyngby
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DD6 8PL NEWPORT ON TAY
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EC4 3TW LONDON
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430072 WUHAN
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100101 Beijing
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7535 Cape Town
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8370448 SANTIAGO
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3100 SANTO DOMINGO DE HEREDIA
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1196 Gland
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2020 Hamilton
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3430 TULLN
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