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Open Access Mandate for Publications assignment_turned_in Project2013 - 2018Partners:UAM, INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR E CELULAR-IBMC, UNIBAS, MEDITOX, IDRI +5 partnersUAM,INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA MOLECULAR E CELULAR-IBMC,UNIBAS,MEDITOX,IDRI,ISCIII,AMVAC AG,Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute,ISS,Etna Biotech (Italy)Funder: European Commission Project Code: 603181more_vert Open Access Mandate for Publications assignment_turned_in Project2011 - 2017Partners:deCODE Genetics (Iceland), MPG, KCL, OAW, ISS +47 partnersdeCODE Genetics (Iceland),MPG,KCL,OAW,ISS,ABERA BIOSCIENCE,MEND FRANC,Xbrane Biopharma (Sweden),Hookipa Biotech AG,GSK VACCINES INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL HEALTH SRL,ERASMUS MC,UNIGE,Institut Pasteur,GSK Bio,University of Surrey,CEA,UNISI,MICROBIOTEC SRL,VISMEDERI SRL,UOXF,DUOTOL,DH,Emory University,Imperial,Hookipa Biotech AG,BTG,WHO,LUMC,IRB,IDRI,CNRS,VLS,SIGMOID,SGUL,PEVION BIOTECH AG,SVA,GU,Fondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca,VACCIBODY AS,CBB,GLAXOSMITHKLINE VACCINES SRL,VLS,ARENAVAX,VLA,ALTA SRLU,SEATTLE BIOMED,REITHERA SRL,SSI,University of Innsbruck,TBVI,HEALTH PROTECTION AGENCY HPA,Utrecht UniversityFunder: European Commission Project Code: 280873more_vert Open Access Mandate for Publications assignment_turned_in Project2018 - 2023Partners:IDRI, University of Catania, ARCHIVEL FARMA, UNIBO, University of Sheffield +3 partnersIDRI,University of Catania,ARCHIVEL FARMA,UNIBO,University of Sheffield,TBVI,AIIMS,Etna Biotech (Italy)Funder: European Commission Project Code: 777123Overall Budget: 5,050,660 EURFunder Contribution: 4,549,530 EURTuberculosis (TB) one of the world’s deadliest diseases: one third of the world’s population, mostly in developing countries, is infected with TB. But TB is becoming again very dangerous also for developed countries, due to the increased mobility of the world population, and the appearance of several new bacterial strains that are multi-drug resistant (MDR). There is now a growing awareness that TB can be effectively fought only working globally, starting from countries like India, where the infection is endemic. Once a person present the active disease, the most critical issue is the current duration of the therapy, because of the high costs it involved, the increased chances of non-compliance (which increase the probability of developing an MDR strain), and the time the patient is still infectious to others. One exciting possibility to shorten the duration of the therapy are new host-reaction therapies (HRT) as a coadjuvant of the antibiotic therapy. The endpoints in the clinical trials for HRTs are time to inactivation, and incidence of recurrence. While for the first it is in some cases possible to have a statistically powered evidence for efficacy in a phase II clinical trial, recurrence almost always require a phase III clinical trial with thousands of patients involved, and huge costs. In the STriTuVaD project we will extend our Universal Immune System Simulator to include all relevant determinants of such clinical trial, establish its predictive accuracy against the individual patients recruited in the trial, use it to generate virtual patients and predict their response to the HRT being tested, and combine them to the observations made on physical patients using a new in silico-augmented clinical trial approach that uses a Bayesian adaptive design. This approach, where found effective could drastically reduce the cost of innovation in this critical sector of public healthcare.
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