Project description Heterogeneous Integration and take-up of of Key Enabling Technologies for Components and Systems Show the project objective Hide the project objective Pocket will develop a novel point-of-care (PoC) urine test for the detection of tuberculosis (TB), achieving at the same time a low cost (5 to 10 euro end-user cost per test, including depreciation cost of the instrument) and a high accuracy (>80% capture of TB-positive patients, which is much better than the present solutions which reach 60%). The test positions itself between current low-end immunological urine tests with limited accuracy and between high-end expensive nucleic-acid-based tests, which are not truly point-of-care. Throughout this project, special attention will be paid to both end-user requirements (performance, cost, ease-of-use, ...) and to manufacturability. Pocket will go well beyond the development of a mere laboratory prototype, as in the final year of the project, the instrument will be field-tested in Africa and India.The combination of low cost and high accuracy will be achieved through a unique integration of several state-of-the-art concepts, which the partners have separately developed and of which the maturity has already been shown:-a nanophotonic transducer with integrated spectrum analyser developed by UGent (Vernier ring resonator cascade with arrayed waveguide grating spectrometer). This will enable us to eliminate the cost associated with the inclusion of a high-end tunable laser (20k euro) that typically plagues the competing approaches using resonant optical nanophotonic sensors.-a high-confinement silicon nitride (SiN) platform running in a mature small-volume CMOS fab (imec). The use of SiN as opposed to the more traditional Silicon-on-Insulator material system will enable us to move the operating wavelength from 1550 nm to 900 nm, where both the sources and the detectors are significantly less expensive.-a novel TB detection system, based on a unique combination of high-quality antibodies for two different biomarkers. Fields of science engineering and technologymedical engineeringmedical laboratory technologylaboratory samples analysis Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2013.3.3 - Heterogeneous Integration and take-up of Key Enabling Technologies for Components and Systems Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2013-10 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator UNIVERSITEIT GENT EU contribution € 393 650,00 Address SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 9000 Gent Belgium See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen Arr. Gent Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Peter Bienstman (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all TRINEAN NV Belgium EU contribution € 467 650,00 Address DULLE GRIETLAAN 17/3 9050 GENTBRUGGE See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Oost-Vlaanderen Arr. Gent Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Ronny Bockstaele (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICRO-ELECTRONICA CENTRUM Belgium EU contribution € 528 747,00 Address KAPELDREEF 75 3001 Leuven See on map Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Vlaams-Brabant Arr. Leuven Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Christine Van Houtven (Mrs.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data MICROFLUIDIC CHIPSHOP GMBH Germany EU contribution € 485 300,00 Address STOCKHOLMER STRASSE 20 07747 Jena See on map Region Thüringen Thüringen Jena, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Claudia Gärtner (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data LIONEX GMBH Germany EU contribution € 373 600,00 Address Salzdahlumer Strasse 196 38126 Braunschweig See on map Region Niedersachsen Braunschweig Braunschweig, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Mahavir SINGH (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS Spain EU contribution € 453 237,00 Address CALLE SERRANO 117 28006 Madrid See on map Region Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact María Ángeles López Vázquez (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
