Project description
Photosensitisers for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy efforts
The increasing resistance of microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, and viruses to antimicrobials and antiseptics poses a serious threat to medicine and biology. This growing issue leads to rising infection rates and approximately 20 000 deaths annually due to multidrug-resistant bacteria, making it a critical public health challenge. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the JAVIEROH project will develop innovative boron-rich biocompatible photosensitisers with suppressed π-π interactions and enhanced O2 production. These photosensitisers will serve as antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) agents and antitumour agents for cancer treatments, contributing to efforts to combat this pressing global health threat.
Objective
The increasing resistance of microorganisms (bacteria, virus, fungi...) against antimicrobials and antiseptics is one of the most challenging topics in current medicine and biology. Statistics from the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that bacterial resistance to antibiotics causes over 20.000 deaths every year in EU member states alone. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) alerts that healthcare-associated infections caused mainly by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria remain a public health issue and emphasizes the importance and urgency to search for effective alternative approaches based on completely different mechanisms. One of the promising approaches to fight against infections is the antimicrobial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) using biocompatible photosensitizers.
Compared to classical antimicrobials, the biggest advantage of aPDT is the very low probability that the target microorganisms have the opportunity to develop resistance. Furthermore, aPDT can be synergistically combined with other antibacterial treatments, such as radiotherapy, antibiotic treatments, and photothemal therapy, to improve its antibacterial efficiency. The main goal of this project is to engineer novel boron rich biocompatible photosensitizers, with suppressed π-π interactions and herewith enhanced for efficient singlete O2 production, to be used in a twofold objective: a) as aPDT agents for the inactivation of microorganisms in sanitary instruments and medical devices; b) as antitumor agents in dual PDT-BNCT cancer therapies. The innovation is focused on the development boron content PSs with multiple applications both for antimicrobial (aPDT) and anti-cancer (PDT and BNCT)
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- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy pharmaceutical drugs antibiotics
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine oncology
- natural sciences chemical sciences inorganic chemistry metalloids
- medical and health sciences basic medicine pharmacology and pharmacy drug resistance multidrug resistance
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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28006 Madrid
Spain
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