Projet EGRET-AAA (Horizon Europe, appel à projets 2021)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Joint Doctorates
Panel : Life Sciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

EGRET-AAA is a joint doctorate program to provide training in glaucoma research, leading to joint doctoral degrees for 15 ESRs. It converts existing partnerships between universities into long-lasting ones. Together with many private and societal partners, our consortium forms a cradle for a European network of highly skilled, resilient, entrepreneurial and creative researchers, who will inspire each other to excel in glaucoma research, both during and long after the funding period. EGRET-AAA will produce innovative treatments to protect and restore vision in patients with progressive eye disease glaucoma. By using revolutionary human retinal organoids, we will accelerate the development of new treatments and bring gene therapy and stem cell-based approaches a major step closer to clinical implementation, while minimizing the need for animal research. Through our findings, we will be able to protect the regenerated eye-brain connections and develop diagnostic techniques to select patients suitable for treatment and to evaluate intervention effects. By doing so, we will ultimately save approximately 1 million Europeans from blindness, and another 5 million from significant vision loss, thereby increasing their quality of life, and dramatically reducing societal and health care costs.  Through our interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral training, the 15 ESRs will gain essential skills and assets for success in a broad range of careers in academia and beyond. Based on our previous experience gained on multiple training networks, we believe that this timely program provides an in-depth graduate research training environment of unrivalled quality and pertinence, far greater and better than the sum of its parts. By anticipating continued demand for the skills and experience of our ESRs, we see EGRET-AAA as the precursor of a permanent and sustainable glaucoma-focused European doctoral program.

Mots clés : glaucoma, retinal organoids, stem cells, neuroprotection, retinal perfusion, ischemia, risk factor, ophthalmic imaging, visual function, cortical function, perimetry, regenerative medicine

Participants :
- E6 mediadiensten (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Sorbonne Université (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1130774.4 €
- Oogvereniging nederland (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Otto von Guericke de Magdebourg (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 781617.6 €
- Bulbitech as (Norvège) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 297748.8 €
- University Medical Center Groningen (Pays-Bas) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 1097481.6 €
- Heidelberg Engineering (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université Radboud de Nimègue (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Amo groningen bv (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Fundament subsidieadvies (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Hertz brigitte (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Imedos health gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Université d'Amsterdam (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Plateforme europeenne des femmes scientifiques aisbl (Belgique) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Stichting koninklijke visio, expertisecentrum voor slechtziende en blinde mensen (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Eurogrant gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Mindaffect b.v. (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Pro retina deutschland (Allemagne) — Partner, associated partner, Autres, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université norvégienne de sciences et de technologie (Norvège) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Amsterdam University Medical Centers (Pays-Bas) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 548740.8 €
- Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 260539.2 €
- Université du Texas (Etats-Unis) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Université de Groningue (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 0.0 €
- Siemens (Netherlands) (Pays-Bas) — Partner, associated partner, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €