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AIPBAND

An Integrated Platform for developing Brain cancer diagnostic techniques
Classification: 
international research
Programme: 
Horizon 2020
Call: 
Call MSCA-ITN-2017 An Integrated Platform for Developing Brain Cancer Diagnostic Techniques
Main ERC field: 
Life Sciences
Unict role: 
Partner
Duration (months): 
48
Start date: 
Monday, January 1, 2018
End date: 
Friday, December 31, 2021
Total cost: 
€ 819.863,64
Unict cost: 
€ 258.061,32
Coordinator: 
University of Plymouth (United Kingdom)
Principal investigator in Unict: 
Giuseppe Spoto
University department involved: 
Department of Chemical Sciences
Participants: 

University College London (United Kingdom) - Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine (United Kingdom) - Stockholms Universitet (Sweden) - Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) - Istituti Fisioterapici Ospitalieri (Italy) - Università degli Studi di Catania (Italy) - Scriba Nanotecnologie SRL (Italy) - Medical Trials Analysis Italy SRL (Italy) - The Hyve B.V. (Netherlands) - Stichting Katholieke Universiteit (Netherlands) - Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)

Abstract

The mission of AiPBAND is to train a new generation of entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers (ESRs) in the early diagnosis of brain tumours using molecular biomarkers in the blood, meeting the medical and societal challenges of this emerging field. AiPBAND will focus on gliomas, a range of devastating and progressive brain tumours affecting around 25.000 people each year in Europe and responsible for the majority of deaths from primary brain tumours.