Projet IPANEMA (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2019)
Action : Staff Exchanges
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

Twelve-member IPANEMA consortium implements competences of participating academic & industry beneficiaries and 3rd country partners to 1) create a knowledge/experience-sharing network of scientists, entrepreneurs & endusers in the multidisciplinary field of biosensors for POCT (point-of care testing); 2) develop innovative bottom-up approaches for fabrication of low-cost POCT devices & implementation of paper-based nucleic acid testing (NAT); 3) pursue applications in 3 important industry sectors – healthcare, agrifood & environmental monitoring. Research & Innovation (R&I) activities will be focused on developing low-cost paper-based isothermal NATs, their integration into microfluidic devices and optimization for use in a) tissue engineering b) agrifood (poultry/plant/fungal) pathogen detection c) detection of toxigenic freshwater Cyanobacteria causing harmful algal blooms. Secondments & trainings will enable researchers to acquire both technical & soft skills needed for converting scientific knowledge & ideas into products & services. Strong involvement of 4 SME partners from Serbia, Israel, France & US contributing their proprietary knowledge on revolutionary novel materials for microfluidic devices & DNA extraction kits, domain expertise in agrifood sector, unique portable sensing systems & handheld devices for isoNAT quantification, will help researchers focus their efforts on development of innovative products for real-life use. Several transducing methods (colorimetric, fluorescence, SPR, electrochemical, microwave & magnetic) and smartphone-based read-out methods will be investigated for POCT use. Renowned beneficiaries including academic INRAE, WU, INESC MN, BGU, UNSPMF & BIOS together with 3rd country academic partners: Columbia University and Xi'an Jiaotong University, will provide transfer of cutting-edge knowledge and technical expertise in effect yielding good basis for long term collaboration and joint R&I projects.

Mots clés : microfluidics, biosensors, isothermal nucleic acid amplification, tissue engineering, agrifood, pathogen, toxin, cyanobacteria, environmental monitoring, point of care testing

Participants :
- Xi'an Jiaotong University (Chine) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Wageningen University & Research (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 133400.0 €
- Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Israël) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 96600.0 €
- Photonicsys ltd (Israël) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 46000.0 €
- Russian Academy of Sciences (Russie) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Diagenetix, inc. (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Anova-plus (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Eden tech (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 110400.0 €
- Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 151800.0 €
- Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers (Portugal) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 207000.0 €
- University of Novi Sad (Serbie) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 36800.0 €
- BioSense Institute (Serbie) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 478400.0 €
- Ekofungi doo (Serbie) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 92000.0 €
- Columbia University (Etats-Unis) — Partner, organization partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €