Increasing Value and Flow in the Marine Biodiscovery Pipeline

Project Information

PHARMASEA

Grant agreement ID: 312184

Project closed

Start date 1 October 2012

End date 31 March 2017

Funded under

• Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology

Total cost € 13 194 699,80

EU contribution € 9 465 907,00

Coordinated by

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN
Belgium

Objective

The PharmaSea project focuses on obstacles in marine biodiscovery research, development and commercialization and brings together a broad interdisciplinary team of academic and industry researchers and specialists to address and overcome these. The partners are ideally placed to demonstrate how to widen the bottlenecks and increase the flow of ideas and products derived from the marine microbiome towards a greater number of successes in a larger number of application areas. Despite the tremendous potential of marine biodiscovery, exploitation, particularly at a commercial scale, has been hampered by a number of constraints. These relate to access (physical and legal), genetics of the organisms, compound isolation, structure elucidation, early reliable validation of biological activity and best mechanisms of flow-through into exploitation. PharmaSea will solve these chronic bottlenecks by developing essential actions beyond the state of the art and linking them with best practice and appropriate pragmatic approaches. The robust pipeline structure established within PharmaSea will process a wide genetic basis including marine microbial strain collections held by partners and new strain collections from extreme environments (deep, cold and hot vent habitats) to produce new products with desirable characteristics for development by the SME partners in three accessible market sectors, health (infection, inflammation, CNS diseases), personal care and nutrition. The global aim of PharmaSea is to produce two compounds at larger scale and advance them to pre-clinical evaluation. To address relevant challenges in marine biodiscovery related to policy and legal issues, PharmaSea will bring together practitioners, legal experts, policy advisors/makers and other stakeholders, focusing on the feasibility of harmonising, aligning and complementing current legal frameworks with recommendations and ready to use solutions tailored to marine biodiscovery.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › biological sciences › genetics
• medical and health sciences › health sciences › nutrition
• natural sciences › biological sciences › microbiology

Programme(s)

• FP7-KBBE - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Food, Agriculture and Biotechnology

Topic(s)

• KBBE.2012.3.2-01 - Innovative marine biodiscovery pipelines for novel industrial products

Call for proposal

FP7-KBBE-2012-6-singlestage
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Funding Scheme

CP-TP - Collaborative Project targeted to a special group (such as SMEs)

Coordinator

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN

• EU contribution: € 1 149 815,20
• Address: OUDE MARKT 13 ; 3000 Leuven ; Belgium
• Region: Vlaams Gewest › Prov. Vlaams-Brabant › Arr. Leuven
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Tine Heylen (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

Participants (24)

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 877 327,40
• Address: KING'S COLLEGE REGENT WALK ; AB24 3FX Aberdeen
• Region: Scotland › North Eastern Scotland › Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Kerry Kidd (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

AQUAPHARM BIODISCOVERY LIMITED

Participation ended

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: LAURISTON PLACE 15, QUARTERMILE ONE ; EH3 9EP EDINBURGH
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Andrew Mearns Spragg (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITETET I TROMSOE - NORGES ARKTISKE UNIVERSITET

Norway

• EU contribution: € 785 926,00
• Address: HANSINE HANSENS VEG 14 ; 9019 Tromso
• Region: Norge › Nord-Norge › Troms og Finnmark
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Jeanette Hammer Andersen (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

ECOAST

Belgium

• EU contribution: € 559 170,00
• Address: ESPLANADE 1 ; 8400 OOSTENDE
• Region: Vlaams Gewest › Prov. West-Vlaanderen › Arr. Oostende
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Thomas Vanagt (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

BIOBRIDGE LIMITED

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 140 958,80
• Address: ST. BARNABAS ROAD 45 ; CB1 2BX CAMBRIDGE
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Meredith Lloyd-Evans (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

FUNDACION CENTRO DE EXCELENCIA EN INVESTIGACION DE MEDICAMENTOS INNOVADORES EN ANDALUCIA

Spain

• EU contribution: € 857 553,20
• Address: AVDA DEL CONOCIMIENTO 3 ; 18100 Armilla Granada
• Region: Sur › Andalucía › Granada
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Diego Pozas (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK - NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, CORK

Ireland

• EU contribution: € 422 153,60
• Address: WESTERN ROAD ; T12 YN60 Cork
• Region: Ireland › Southern › South-East
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: David O Connell (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

BIOCOM MEDIA AG

Germany

• EU contribution: € 272 814,40
• Address: JACOBSENWEG 61 ; 13509 BERLIN
• Region: Berlin › Berlin › Berlin
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Boris Mannhardt (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN

Italy

• EU contribution: € 413 022,20
• Address: Villa Comunale ; 80121 Napoli
• Region: Sud › Campania › Napoli
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Giosuè Zurzolo (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE

Italy

• EU contribution: € 433 266,00
• Address: PIAZZALE ALDO MORO 7 ; 00185 Roma
• Region: Centro (IT) › Lazio › Roma
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Donatella De Pascale (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA

Spain

• EU contribution: € 651 435,00
• Address: COLEXIO DE SAN XEROME PRAZA DO OBRADOIRO S/N ; 15782 Santiago De Compostela
• Region: Noroeste › Galicia › A Coruña
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Martin Cacheiro Martinez (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF CHEMISTRY

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 47 660,00
• Address: Milton Road - Thomas Graham House - Science Park ; CB4 0WF CAMBRIDGE
• Region: East of England › East Anglia › Cambridgeshire CC
• Activity type: Other
• Administrative Contact: Richard Kidd (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

C-LECTA GMBH

Germany

• EU contribution: € 282 787,00
• Address: PERLICKSTRASSE 5 ; 04103 Leipzig
• Region: Sachsen › Leipzig › Leipzig
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Heike Kutschke (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET

Denmark

• EU contribution: € 446 212,00
• Address: ANKER ENGELUNDS VEJ 101 ; 2800 Kongens Lyngby
• Region: Danmark › Hovedstaden › Københavns omegn
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Kristina Holdgaard-Sørensen (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

DEEP TEK LIMITED

Participation ended

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 328 213,00
• Address: KILBURNS ; DD6 8PL NEWPORT ON TAY
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Moya Crawford (Mrs.)
• Total cost: No data

ADVANCED CHEMISTRY DEVELOPMENT UK LIMITED

United Kingdom

• EU contribution: € 446 089,20
• Address: NEW STREET SQUARE 5 ; EC4 3TW LONDON
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Michael Partington (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

WUHAN UNIVERSITY

China

• EU contribution: € 152 508,00
• Address: LUOJIA HILL ; 430072 WUHAN
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Zixin Deng (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data

Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

China

• EU contribution: € 152 508,00
• Address: West Beichen Road 1 ; 100101 Beijing
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Shaofeng Li (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE

South Africa

• EU contribution: € 152 508,00
• Address: ROBERT SOBUKWE ROAD ; 7535 Cape Town
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Marla Tuffin (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data

Instituto de Dinamica Celular y Biotecnologia

Chile

• EU contribution: € 152 508,00
• Address: CALLE BEAUCHEF 850 ; 8370448 SANTIAGO
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Juan Asenjo (Prof.)
• Total cost: No data

ASOCIACION INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE BIODIVERSIDAD

Costa Rica

• EU contribution: € 152 508,00
• Address: 400 M. NORTE, 300 M. OESTE DEL CEMENTERIO ; 3100 SANTO DOMINGO DE HEREDIA
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Nora Martin (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

UICN, UNION INTERNATIONALE POUR LA CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE ET DE SES RESSOURCES

Switzerland

• EU contribution: € 63 727,00
• Address: RUE MAUVERNEY 28 ; 1196 Gland
• Region: Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera › Région lémanique › Vaud
• Activity type: Research Organisations
• Administrative Contact: Thomas Greiber (Mr.)
• Total cost: No data

UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO

New Zealand

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: HILLCREST ROAD BLOCK B ; 2020 Hamilton
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Administrative Contact: Jan Bates (Ms.)
• Total cost: No data

SEALIFE PHARMA GMBH

Participation ended

Austria

• EU contribution: € 525 237,00
• Address: TECHNOPARK 1 GEB B EG ; 3430 TULLN
• Region: Ostösterreich › Niederösterreich › Wiener Umland/Nordteil
• Activity type: Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
• Administrative Contact: Alexander Pretsch (Dr.)
• Total cost: No data