Project description
Spatiotemporal insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a progressive inflammatory-demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Understanding the molecular drivers of MS in space and time is paramount for the design and development of novel biomarkers and therapies. Towards this goal, the EU-funded DecOmPress project proposes to decode molecular drivers of pathology including transcriptomic changes in single cells isolated from inflammatory-demyelinating lesions. Scientists will focus on the pathological mechanisms in glial cells and how they contribute to inflammation and demyelination in MS and related disease models. The project will contribute to the delineation of the molecular landscape of the disease, which eventually will help identify novel therapeutic targets and biomarkers for new treatments.
Objective
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a paradigmatic progressive neuroinflammatory disease characterized by multiple lesions across the entire central nervous system including both gray and white matter areas. Deconvoluting the spatio-temporal cellular and molecular landscape is therefore key to understanding underlying disease mechanisms and to develop cell-type specific therapies. The DecOmPress proposal is about integrative human and mouse single-cell genomic strategies to track-down reactive cellular states in compartmentalized progressive neuroinflammation. DecOmPress has two major research tracks (RTs).
RT1 is an MS tissue discovery pipeline utilizing single-nucleus RNA and open chromatin sequencing. RT1 is about developing novel integrative computational tools to process sequencing data from different anatomical lesion areas implementing a large multiplex single-nucleus genomic dataset from the anterior visual system. RT1 is also about decoding compartmentalized inflammation in meningeal versus perivascular tissue niches.
RT2 is a functional validation pipeline utilizing complex transgenic and disease mouse models as well as human organoids in combination with single-cell physiology and genomics. RT2 is about dissecting glial-intrinsic mechanisms at the chronically inflamed white matter lesion rim focusing on MS-specific oligodendrocyte and microglia subtypes. RT2 is also about decoding neuron subtype specific pathologies focusing on projection neurons and the contribution of local (meningeal) and distant (white matter tracts) inflammation and demyelination to cell-type specific neurodegeneration.
In summary, DecOmPress is a highly innovative and fully translational multidisciplinary proposal aiming at identifying novel cell-type specific disease mechanisms and therapeutic targets.
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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69117 Heidelberg
Germany
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