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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

Descrizione del progetto

Una diagnostica e un approccio di monitoraggio nuovi per le malattie immuno-mediate

Le malattie infiammatorie immuno-mediate (IMID, Immune-Mediated Inflammatory Diseases) includono condizioni con un’eziologia diversa, caratterizzate da comuni percorsi infiammatori che conducono all’infiammazione e attivate da una disregolazione della normale risposta immunitaria. Le IMID sono eterogenee per quanto riguarda l’esito della malattia e la risposta a terapie mirate; i marcatori predittivi sono importanti per un approccio di medicina di precisione. Attraverso il progetto ImmUniverse, finanziato dall’UE, un consorzio internazionale transdisciplinare studia il ruolo dell’interazione tra il microambiente tissutale e le cellule immunitarie nella progressione della malattia e nella risposta alla terapia di due IMID: colite ulcerosa e dermatite atopica. Il progetto porterà la diagnostica e il monitoraggio della risposta al trattamento delle IMID a un nuovo livello, attraverso l’attuazione di una metodologia di biopsia liquida non invasiva combinata a saggi di biomarcatori circolanti.

Obiettivo

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.

Meccanismo di finanziamento

RIA - Research and Innovation action

Coordinatore

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

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Regione
Nord-Ovest Lombardia Milano
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 2 098 088,25

Partecipanti (30)