Objective
Obstructive Sleep Apnea is the world's most common sleep disorder and affects 100m people worldwide. It is particularly prevalent among elderly and obese cohorts and is a lifelong disease, with acute and chronic health impacts. It is linked to increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and associated with increased risk of heart attack, cardiac arrhythmia, stroke, daytime sleepiness, depression and poor neurocognitive performance. Estimated annual economic costs of the disease are €60-150b. Established therapeutic options are uncomfortable with unpleasant side effects and/or ineffective; they can also require invasive surgery. Compliance is a major problem with the first line treatment, CPAP: 50% of users refuse it outright or fail to continue use after 1 year. Nyxoah's disruptive neurostimulation device responds directly to these needs and drawbacks. Central to the system is a tiny device implanted under the chin that - compared to other neurostimulator implantations - is smaller, less invasive and has lower risk of infection. The device is powered wirelessly by an activation chip, which is attached to a disposable smart patch and stuck under the chin before sleep. No mask, no noisy machine, no unpleasant side effects. The chip has a closed feedback loop with the implant, which detects tissue resistance and tells the chip to adjust the pulse to keep constant pressure on the nerve, to avoid burnout; it also communicates wirelessly with an app, which displays useful information (synced with the cloud) for use by patients, physicians and social security agencies; this is a key development to allow treatment compliance monitoring and therefore for reimbursement. During the Phase 1 project, the company, founded in 2009, will assess scale-up industrialization plan, product development according to regualatory standards and clinical trials to be deployed in Europe to show the system efficacy on patient outcome and public healthcare costs.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine psychiatry sleep disorders
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine cardiology cardiovascular diseases cardiac arrhythmia
- social sciences sociology demography mortality
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine surgery
- medical and health sciences basic medicine neurology stroke
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Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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H2020-EU.3.1. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and well-being
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H2020-EU.3.1.4. - Active ageing and self-management of health
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H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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H2020-EU.2.3.1. - Mainstreaming SME support, especially through a dedicated instrument
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H2020-EU.3.1.6. - Health care provision and integrated care
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Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1
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Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) H2020-SMEInst-2016-2017
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Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
1435 MONT-SAINT-GUIBERT
Belgium
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.