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Better control and treatment of immune-mediated diseases by exploring the universe of microenvironment imposed tissue signatures and their correlates in liquid biopsies

Description du projet

Une nouvelle approche de suivi et de diagnostic pour les maladies à médiation immunitaire

Les maladies inflammatoires à médiation immunitaire (MIMI) comprennent des affections ayant différentes étiologies, caractérisées par des voies inflammatoires communes entraînant une inflammation et déclenchées par un dérèglement de la réponse immunitaire normale. Les MIMI sont hétérogènes à l’égard des résultats de la maladie et de la réponse aux traitements ciblés; les biomarqueurs prédictifs sont donc importants pour mettre en place une approche de médecine de précision. Grâce au projet ImmUniverse, financé par l’UE, un consortium international interdisciplinaire étudie le rôle de la diaphonie entre le microenvironnement tissulaire et les cellules immunitaires dans l’évolution pathologique et la réponse au traitement de deux MIMI: la colite ulcéreuse et la dermatite atopique. Le projet fera passer le diagnostic et le suivi de la réponse au traitement des MIMI au niveau supérieur en mettant en œuvre une méthodologie de biopsie liquide non invasive combinée à des tests basés sur des biomarqueurs circulants.

Objectif

Immune-mediated diseases (IMIDs) are an increasing medical burden in industrialized countries worldwide. IMIDs are characterized by an enormous heterogeneity with regard to disease outcome and response to targeted therapies, which currently cannot be adequately anticipated to tailor individual patient management. Hence, mechanistic understanding of this heterogeneity and biomarkers predictive for disease control and therapy response over time are important prerequisites of a future precision medicine in IMIDs. ImmUniverse has been formed as a European transdisciplinary consortium to tackle these unmet needs and to understand the role of the crosstalk between tissue microenvironment and immune cells in disease progression and response to therapy of two different IMIDs: ulcerative colitis and atopic dermatitis. Following this unique cross-disease approach ImmUniverse will fill the gap and the limitations of current studies, which do not systematically compare the complex interactions between recirculating immune cells and the respective tissue microenvironment. The consortium will combine analysis of tissue-derived signatures with “circulating signatures” detectable in liquid biopsies, employing state-of-the-art profiling technologies corresponding to multi-Omics datasets. The project will also bring diagnostics in IMID to a new level by implementing disruptive non-invasive liquid-biopsy methodology in combination with novel, validated circulating biomarker assays which are expected to improve diagnosis, inform early in the clinical course on disease severity and progression and enable treatment response monitoring. The identified signature will be validated to monitor state/progression and response to therapy in prospective observational cohorts. Realization of these objectives will result in improvement of patient management, lead to increased patient well-being and will significantly reduce the socioeconomic burden of these diseases.

Coordinateur

HUMANITAS UNIVERSITY
Contribution nette de l'UE
€ 1 988 088,25
Adresse
VIA RITA LEVI MONTALCINI SNC
20090 Pieve Emanuele
Italie

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Région
Nord-Ovest Lombardia Milano
Type d’activité
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Liens
Coût total
€ 2 098 088,25

Participants (30)