Opendata, web and dolomites

DesignerAntibiotics

Towards the prevention of aminoglycoside antibiotic-related deafness

Total Cost €

0

EC-Contrib. €

0

Partnership

0

Views

0

 DesignerAntibiotics project word cloud

Explore the words cloud of the DesignerAntibiotics project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "DesignerAntibiotics" about.

infancy    ototoxicity    guided    suffer    compounds    drawback    antibiotics    antimicrobials    investigation    caused    effect    london    annual    despite    generation    language    models    neonatal    genetics    university    22    20    college    human    1555a    crystallography    aminoglycoside    phd    profound    annually    die    structural    damage    biology    threatening    first    biobank    dna    antibacterial    modify    gt    mutation    profoundly    group    billion    life    million    exposed    care    impairment    ucl    patient    cells    25    stanford    15    inner    safer    mitochondrial    distinction    published    amounts    economically    shown    occurs    impedes    hearing    limits    journal    patients    molecular    infections    ear    publication    incidence    patented    irreversible    chemically    author    incurred    critically    maintaining    resistance    rare    resistant    treatment    class    intensive    data    acquisition    aminoglycosides    murine    imperial    100    diminish    candidate    urgent    78    vitro    masters    children    potency    clinical    deaf    bacteria    drug   

Project "DesignerAntibiotics" data sheet

The following table provides information about the project.

Coordinator
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON 

Organization address
address: GOWER STREET
city: LONDON
postcode: WC1E 6BT
website: n.a.

contact info
title: n.a.
name: n.a.
surname: n.a.
function: n.a.
email: n.a.
telephone: n.a.
fax: n.a.

 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Total cost 251˙857 €
 EC max contribution 251˙857 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
 Code Call H2020-MSCA-IF-2015
 Funding Scheme MSCA-IF-GF
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-02-13   to  2020-02-12

 Partnership

Take a look of project's partnership.

# participants  country  role  EC contrib. [€] 
1    UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON UK (LONDON) coordinator 251˙857.00
2    BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY US (STANFORD) partner 0.00

Map

 Project objective

Aminoglycosides are critically important antimicrobials used in the treatment of life-threatening infections. A major drawback of usage is hearing loss caused by irreversible damage to the inner ear (ototoxicity). Ototoxicity occurs in ~20% of patients and ~100% of patients with the m.1555A>G mitochondrial DNA mutation. The largest EU patient group exposed to aminoglycosides are children in neonatal intensive care and the effect of hearing loss during infancy is particularly profound as it impedes language acquisition. Thus, there is an urgent need to develop safer aminoglycoside antibiotics. Ototoxicity limits usage despite the antibacterial potency and low incidence of drug resistance provided by this class of antibiotics. Economically, the annual EU cost incurred by drug resistant infections amounts to €1.5 billion, and the cost of hearing impairment is estimated to be €78 billion. Moreover, 25,000 EU patients die annually as a result of infections caused by resistant bacteria and 22.5 million suffer from hearing impairment, with 2 million profoundly deaf.

Stanford research recently published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation has shown that it is possible to chemically modify aminoglycosides to diminish ototoxicity while maintaining antibacterial activity. Through a novel collaboration between Stanford and University College London (UCL), the aim of this research is to use a results-guided drug design approach to develop the next generation of safer aminoglycoside antibiotics. For this work, the candidate will have access to 15 novel patented aminoglycoside compounds, crystallography data, murine in vitro and in vitro models of ototoxicity, and a rare biobank of cells from patients with the m.1555A>G mutation. This work will build upon the candidate’s Distinction Masters of Research structural biology experience at Imperial College London, and UCL PhD and recent first-author publication in Human Molecular Genetics related to aminoglycoside ototoxicity.

Are you the coordinator (or a participant) of this project? Plaese send me more information about the "DESIGNERANTIBIOTICS" project.

For instance: the website url (it has not provided by EU-opendata yet), the logo, a more detailed description of the project (in plain text as a rtf file or a word file), some pictures (as picture files, not embedded into any word file), twitter account, linkedin page, etc.

Send me an  email (fabio@fabiodisconzi.com) and I put them in your project's page as son as possible.

Thanks. And then put a link of this page into your project's website.

The information about "DESIGNERANTIBIOTICS" are provided by the European Opendata Portal: CORDIS opendata.

More projects from the same programme (H2020-EU.1.3.2.)

MultiSeaSpace (2019)

Developing a unified spatial modelling strategy that accounts for interactions between species at different marine trophic levels, and different types of survey data.

Read More  

E-CLIPS (2019)

Effects of Cross-Linguistic Interactions on Perception of Speech

Read More  

INSPiRE (2018)

The Influence of Information Search on Preference Formation and Choice

Read More