Project description
Virtual Physiological Human
The airways diseases asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease affect over 400 million people world-wide and cause considerable morbidity and mortality. Airways disease costs the European Union in excess of €56 billion per annum. Current therapies are inadequate and we do not have sufficient tools to predict disease progression or response to current or future therapies. Our consortium, Airway Disease PRedicting Outcomes through Patient Specific Computational Modelling (AirPROM), brings together the exisiting clinical consortia (EvA FP7, U-BIOPRED IMI and BTS Severe Asthma), and expertise in physiology, radiology, image analysis, bioengineering, data harmonization, data security and ethics, computational modeling and systems biology. We shall develop an integrated multi-scale model building upon existing models. This airway model will be comprised of an integrated 'micro-scale' and 'macro-scale' airway model informed and validated by 'omic data and ex vivo models at the genome-transcriptome-cell-tissue scale and by CT and functional MRI imaging coupled to detailed physiology at the tissue-organ scale utilising Europe's largest airway disease cohort. Validation will be undertaken cross-sectionally, following interventions and after longitudinal follow-up to incorporate both spatial and temporal dimensions. AirPROM has a comprehensive data management platform and a well-developed ethico-legal framework. Critically, AirPROM has an extensive exploitation plan, involving at its inception and throughout its evolution those that will 'develop' and 'use' the technologies emerging from this project. AirPROM therefore will bridge the critical gaps in our clinical management of airways disease, by providing validated models to predict disease progression and response to treatment and the platform to translate these patient-specific tools, so as to pave the way to improved, personalised management of airways disease.
Fields of science
Call for proposal
FP7-ICT-2009-6
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CP - Collaborative project (generic)Coordinator
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United Kingdom
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2650 Edegem
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3001 Heverlee
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3631 Maasmechelen
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1000 Brussel
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1003 Lausanne
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82152 STEINKIRCHEN
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85764 Neuherberg
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77836 RHEINMUNSTER
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08028 Barcelona
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08003 Barcelona
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13284 MARSEILLE
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91120 Palaiseau
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13284 Marseille
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75015 PARIS 15
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1121 Budapest
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1085 Budapest
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95131 Catania
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44121 Ferrara
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1105AZ Amsterdam
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61-704 POZNAN
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01138 Warszawa
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462 80 Vanersborg
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901 87 Umea
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17177 Stockholm
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G12 0XH Glasgow
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B9 5SS Birmingham
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M13 9PL Manchester
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BT7 1NN Belfast
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CV2 2DX Coventry
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S10 2TN Sheffield
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SO17 1BJ Southampton
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S10 2PX Sheffield
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S1 2JE SHEFFIELD
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OX1 2JD Oxford
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NG7 2RD Nottingham
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CV4 8UW COVENTRY
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64294 Darmstadt
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78180 Montigny Le Bretonneux
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