IN-BRAIN

IN VIVO REPROGRAMMING: A NOVEL ROUTE TO BRAIN REPAIR

Coordinatore	LUNDS UNIVERSITET    more Spiacenti, non ci sono informazioni su questo coordinatore. Contattare Fabio per maggiori infomrazioni, grazie.
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Sweden [SE]
Totale costo	1˙500˙000 €
EC contributo	1˙500˙000 €
Programma	FP7-IDEAS-ERC Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	ERC-2012-StG_20111109
Funding Scheme	ERC-SG
Anno di inizio	2013
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2013-03-01   -   2018-02-28

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	LUNDS UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: Paradisgatan 5c city: LUND postcode: 22100 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Malin Cognome: Parmar Email: send email Telefono: +4646 2220620 Fax: +4646 2220559	SE (LUND)	hostInstitution	1˙500˙000.00
2	LUNDS UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: Paradisgatan 5c city: LUND postcode: 22100 contact info Titolo: Mrs. Nome: Paulina Cognome: Pettersson Email: send email Telefono: 46462223415 Fax: +4646 2220559	SE (LUND)	hostInstitution	1˙500˙000.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Recent progress on direct re-programming into functional neurons provides a new approach towards cell-based therapy for neurodegenerative disorders. The induced neurons (iNs) are a novel type of cell resulting from rapid and remarkable conversion of somatic cells into subtype-specific functional neurons. Importantly they are non-proliferating which make them interesting alternatives to induced pluripotent (iPS) cells as sources of patient specific neurons for exogenous cell replacement therapy and disease modeling. Another major advantage with direct conversion over iPS cells is that the reprogramming could be performed in vivo. While direct conversion has been successful in organs such as the pancreas, where exocrine cells can be directly converted into insulin producing cells by viral injections in vivo (Zhou et al., Nature, 2008), the method is yet to be explored in the brain. Once direct conversion of non-neuronal cells into subtype specific neurons directly in the brain is established, it provides a new strategy for cell based brain repair that do not depend on exogenous cells. The overall goal of this project is to provide proof-of-principle that induced neurogenesis is achievable in the adult brain through guided transcription factor reprogramming of non-neuronal cells, to determine which cells are best suited as cellular substrate for in vivo neural conversion, and to compare this approach with transplantation of converted fibroblasts. The ability to directly reprogram cell fate using defined combinations of transcription factors have already turned basic studies of stem cell differentiation and cell therapy into a new direction. Establishing this technique in vivo would be another paradigm-shifting finding that opens up for novel strategies for brain repair'