Projet ColoMARK (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Doctoral Networks
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

The ColoMARK network integrates 17 teams with multidisciplinary expertise (omics, epidemiology, microbiome, circulating tumour DNA, bioinformatics, assay development, circulating RNAs, circulating tumour cells, tumour profiling, clinics) that will take advantage of the assets conferred by novel liquid biopsy strategies to provide complementary and comprehensive know-how on the features required to successfully fulfil the objectives of ColoMARK: 1) to foster a next generation of scientists that can address the challenges of colorectal cancer biomarker development. The network is enforced by pre-existing collaborations from COST Action TransColonCan, and enhanced by the participation of non-academic entities, who will play an essential role in the cross-sectoral and transversal training of the researchers. It is our purpose to provide a personalised training programme that builds on the knowledge offered by the participants to produce future cross-sectoral leadership and a sustainable initiative of excellent research that enhances the competitiveness of European researchers; 2) to achieve maximum impact by appropriate dissemination, patient and public engagement, and results exploitation, activities that will be embedded in the training of the researchers. Given the promising perspectives of liquid biopsy approaches for the future of cancer prevention and management, ColoMARK will constitute an opportunity to reach outstanding scientific, technological and societal impact in a field highly relevant to Horizon Europe´s priorities in cancer, therefore enhancing European competitiveness in R&I; 3) to advance in colorectal cancer understanding by producing outstanding, synergistic research. As the main scientific aim of ColoMARK, ten tailored ground-breaking research projects, only possible in the context of ColoMARK, will be undertaken for the identification and validation of better risk, prognostic and monitoring colorectal cancer biomarkers.

Mots clés : colorectal cancer genomics circulating tumour cells ctdna exosomes rna biomarkers liquid biopsy

Participants :
- Fundació Clínic per a la Recerca Biomèdica (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 251971.2 €
- Qiagen (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Santiago (Espagne) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 503942.4 €
- Université de médecine de Graz (Autriche) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 270331.2 €
- Italian institute for Genomic Medicine (Italie) — Partner, associated partner, Recherche, subvention : 0.0 €
- Destina genomica slne (Espagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 251971.2 €
- Leiden University Medical Center (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 274370.4 €
- University College Dublin (Irlande) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 286488.0 €
- Université Heinrich Heine de Düsseldorf (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260539.2 €
- Université de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Genomescan b.v. (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 274370.4 €
- Centre international de recherche sur le cancer (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 282693.6 €
- Servicio Gallego de Salud (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes publics (hors enseignement & recherche), subvention : 0.0 €
- European Association for Cancer Research (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Grenade (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Barcelone (Espagne) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €