TRANS2CARE Network of
Research:
Focus on new strategies for Prevention
of Ageing-Related Diseases
SABINA PASSAMONTI,
team manager
Università degli Studi di Trieste
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita Lead Partner
Venezia, 29.11.2013
Rete transregionale per l'innovazione ed il
trasferimento tecnologico per il miglioramento della
sanità
Transregionalno omrežje za inovacijo in
prenos tehnološkega znanja za izboljšanje
zdravstva
Transregional Network for Innovation and
Technology Transfer to Improve Health
Care
A strategic project funded by the
Crossborder Cooperation Programme
Italy-Slovenia 2007-2013
Crossborder Cooperation Programme
Italy-Slovenia 2007-2013
€ 136 714 036
85% - European Regional Development Fund
15% - National Funds
TRANS2CARE
€ 2 611 118
START - 01.04.2011
END - 30.09.2014
TRANS2CARE network in the Programme
Area
THE 13 PARTNERS OF TRANS2CARE
mix of virtue
6
Partners in Italy
Partners in Slovenia
6
Lead Partner
academic
30
70
31
38
bio
nonacademic
7
31
clinics
Junior research staff
Senior research staff
6
mat-chem-econ
female
males
4
female
10
males
The Programme objectives
“To strengthen the attractiveness
and the competitiveness of the
Programme Area”
Priorities
1. Environment and transport
2. Research, innovation, training
3. Education, culture, health
WELLBEING
HEALTH
WEALTH
PREVENTION
DIAGNOSIS
THERAPY
tech transfer
dissemination
academic
30
INNOVATORS (PMI, startuppers,…)
70
nonacademic
HIGH SCIENTIFIC CULTURE
sharing of
knowledge
Trans2Care:
COMPLEMENTARY
TRAINING soft skills
TECHNOLOGICAL TRAINING
hard skills
THE SCIENCE OF OUR
Partners
1.
cell biology, membrane transport
2.
statistics, chemometrics
3.
transcriptome analysis
4.
analytical chemistry
5.
genetics, clinical markers
6.
IP management
7.
clinical chemistry in intensive care
8.
electrochemistry
9.
anti-microbial peptides
10. IHC, clinical specimens
11. antibody production, stem cells
12. biocompatible materials
13. genetics, clinical markers
• can we link
regional
Institutions by
research
synergies?
• YES, WE CAN !!
THE CHALLENGE & the innovation
let’s develop complementary skills
COMPLEMENTARY TRAINING OF RESEARCHERS
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4
5
6
7
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10
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15
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Team building
Patent search, analysis and business
Scientific communication: opportunities and risks
Innovation and Technological transfer
Best practices for managing IP in early stage startups
Understanding, protecting and monetizing your intellectual property
New product development according to ISO9000:2008
Guided tour to Cluster for Biomedicine, ELETTRA Synchrotron and FERMI facilities
Fundamental of economics
How to get the most from a technological audit
Training Session TECH AUDITS INSIDE T2C
Project Management
Contracts and agreements
How to communicate your skills and professional objectives
Ecosystems for innovation
Job placement and labour market
http://www.nanotechitaly.it/category/news/
Medicine and Nanotechnologies: a Perfect Wedding
Neurodegenerative Diseases
• PP2 SISSA, Italy strong in neurobiology
– transcriptome analysis to identify genes involved in the prion
disease and thus protein biomarkers to carry out diagnosis from
accessibile tissues (plasma)
•
PP1 National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia strong in
chemometrics
– new QSAR model predicting anti-prion drug activity
– new QSAR model predicting dietary flavonoid transport by
bilitranslocase membrane transporter,
– prediction of 3D structure of bilitranslocase
• bilitranslocase important for transport of flavonoids to the brain
• flavonoids important for neuroprotection
Medicine and Nanotechnologies: a Perfect Wedding
Complications and prevention of cardiovascular diseases
• PP6 General Hospital of Sempeter, Nova Gorica,
Slovenia, strong in intensive care
– controlling kidney failure following coronary dilation
• PP3 University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia strong in laserbased technology and lab-on-chip
– new method to detect biomarker of kidney injury
– new method to detect predictive biomarker bilirubin
• LP University of Trieste, Italy, strong in membrane
biology
– bilitranslocase-mediated transport of dietary flavonoids
Medicine and Nanotechnologies:
a Perfect Wedding
Coeliac disease
• PP9 Pediatric Hospital Burlo Garofalo, Trieste, Italy,
strong in diseases of the intestine
– pre-symptomatic diagnosis of coeliac disease
•
PP7 University of Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy, strong in
electrochemical sensors
– new method to detect serum biomarkers of asymptomatic
coeliac disease
Medicine and Nanotechnologies:
a Perfect Wedding
Orthopaedic diseases
• PP11 Orthopaedic Hospital of Valdoltra, Ankaran,
Slovenia, strong in biocompatible materials for implants
• PP8 University of Udine, Italy strong in antimicrobial
peptides
– new antibacterial coating of orthopaedic implants
THE CHALLENGE & the innovation
let’s contact industries, hospitals and
other research centres
CONCLUSIONS
2014
the year of the crop !
Further details? go to:
http://books.trans2care.eu/todaytomorrow/
GRAZIE per l’attenzione
… welcome in T2C …
Partners: LP – Università degli Studi di Trieste, PP1 – Kemijski Inštitut Ljubljana, PP1 – Kemijski Inštitut Ljubljana, PP2 – Scuola
Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, PP3 – Univerza v Novi Gorici, PP4 – Università di Ferrara, PP5 – Treviso Tecnologia, PP6 –
Splošna Bolnišnica Dr. Franca Derganca, PP7 – Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, PP8 – Università di Udine, PP9 – IRCCS Burlo Garofalo,
PP10 – Zavod Republike Slovenije Za Transfuzijsko Medicino, PP11 – Ortopedska Bolnišnica Valdoltra, PP12 – Univerza na Primorskem Fakulteta za Vede o Zdravju.
Progetto Rete Transregionale per l ’ innovazione ed il Trasferimento Tecnologico per il
Miglioramento della Sanità finanziato nell’ambito del Programma per la Cooperazione
Transfrontaliera Italia-Slovenia 2007-2013, dal Fondo europeo di sviluppo regionale e dai fondi
nazionali.
Projekt Transregionalno omrežje za inovacijo in prenos tehnološkega znanja za izboljšanje
zdravstva sofinancirana v okviru Programa čezmejnega sodelovanja Slovenija-Italija 2007-2013
iz sredstev Evropskega sklada za regionalni razvoj in nacionalnih sredstev.