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project info
Start date: 23 September 2019
End date: n/a
Project website: link
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 74 215,47 €
EU contribution: 37 107,74 € (50%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Direzione Generale "Ricerca, Innovazione, Università, Export, Internazionalizzazione" - Unità Organizzativa "Autorità di Gestione POR FESR 2014-2020"

MICROCATCH: EARLY DIAGNOSIS, PROGNOSIS AND MONITORING OF NEUROLOGICAL PATHOLOGIES FROM LIQUID BIOPSIES

BRAINDTECH HAS DEVELOPED A SYSTEM OF EARLY DIAGNOSIS, PROGNOSIS AND MONITORING OF NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF MICRORNA CONTAINED IN MICROVESICLES. MICROVESICLES ARE PRODUCED ABOUT 10 YEARS BEFORE CLINICAL SYMPTOMS OF PATHOLOGY. BRAINDTECH IDENTIFIES PATHOLOGICAL-SPECIFIC PATTERNS OF MICRORNA CONTAINED IN MICROVESICLES, ISOLATED FROM LIQUID BIOPSIES. MICROVESICLES ARE CAPTURED USING A MICROFLUIDIC CHIP DEVELOPED BY IBM. BRAINDTECH HAS COVERED ITS INVENTIONS WITH TWO PATENTS, ONE RELATING TO THE METHOD FOR THE DIAGNOSIS, PROGNOSIS AND THERAPEUTIC MONITORING OF NEUROLOGICAL, NEURODEGENERATIVE AND INFLAMMATORY PATHOLOGIES, BASED ON THE ANALYSIS OF MICRORNA CONTAINED IN MICROVESICLES. THE SECOND RELATED TO THE IDENTIFICATION IN THE BLOOD OF SPECIFIC MICROGLIA MARKERS, AIMED AT ASSESSING DAMAGE TO BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER FOR DIAGNOSTIC PURPOSES RELATED TO CRANIAL TRAUMA AND NEURODEGENERATIVE AND/OR NEUROIN PATHOLOGIES

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