Objective Sepsis is a life-threatening illness caused by the body’s overreaction to an infection and can be triggered either directly by infection or may occur after medical treatment or surgery.The mortality rate in patients admitted to hospital with severe sepsis is 28-50% and it remains the most prevalent cause of death in non-coronary Intensive Care Units (ICUs ). It is estimated that in the US ~$17 billion were spent annually treating sepsis in patients and a similar amount is spent across the EU. To reduce costs and provide better treatment to patients, early, accurate diagnosis is critically important.The CE-microArray project will utilize existing technology from clinical chemistry, microplate readers and cavity enhanced spectroscopy in a truly novel way to develop more sensitive, accurate, faster and more useful diagnostic platform.The project consortium comprises experienced SMEs from across Europe who have developed the concept but do not have the capability to undertake the required Research and Development to produce working prototypes in preparation for commercialization. To do this they require funding to pay third party R&D specialists to undertake the R&D.The project aims to produce a solution based on colorimetric detection that will be up to 100 times more sensitive, reducing the damage to patients with sepsis, allow sensitive and accurate detection of an increased range of biomarkers at lower cost and higher throughput. The market opportunity is estimated be greater than €1 billion and will bring a cumulative profit of ~€38 million to the SME consortium over 5 years. Fields of science social sciencessociologydemographymortalitymedical and health sciencesclinical medicinecritical care medicinenatural sciencesphysical sciencesopticsspectroscopy Programme(s) FP7-SME - Specific Programme "Capacities": Research for the benefit of SMEs Topic(s) SME-2013-1 - Research for SMEs Call for proposal FP7-SME-2013 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme BSG-SME - Research for SMEs Coordinator TEESSIDE UNIVERSITY Address Borough road TS1 3BA Middlesbrough United Kingdom See on map Region North East (England) Tees Valley and Durham South Teesside Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Kirsty Jarvis (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window EU contribution € 14 586,00 Participants (8) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ANALOX SENSOR TECHNOLOGY LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 203 925,00 Address Ellerbeck court stokesley 15 TS9 5PT Stokesley north yorkshire See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Andrew Watson (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window YORKSHIRE PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY LIMITED United Kingdom EU contribution € 104 065,00 Address Holdsworth road unit hm14 holmfield mills HX3 6SN Halifax See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Ashley Knowles (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window NEHIR BIYOTEKNOLOJI AR-GE HIZMETLERI DANISMANLIK BILISIM PAZARLAMA SANAYI TICARET LTD STI Türkiye EU contribution € 219 875,00 Address Odtu-ostim teknokent uzaycagi caddesi 1308 sok no:6b8 Ankara See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Serhat Sevli (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window UNION PLASTIC S.A.S France EU contribution € 112 109,00 Address Za robert 43140 Saint didier en velay See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Philippe Roulet (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window BIAMETRICS GMBH Germany EU contribution € 212 566,00 Address Auf der morgenstelle 18 72076 Tubingen See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Günther Proll (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window OSAUHING EESTI INNOVATSIOONI INSTITUUT Estonia EU contribution € 27 990,00 Address Sepapaja 6 11415 Tallinn See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Lauri Nirgi (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window ALBERT-LUDWIGS-UNIVERSITAET FREIBURG Germany EU contribution € 17 266,00 Address Fahnenbergplatz 79098 Freiburg See on map Region Baden-Württemberg Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau, Stadtkreis Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Günter Roth (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window ANASYST LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 226 684,00 Address Borough road graduate research school teesside university TS1 3BA Middlesbrough See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Roger Duggan (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window
