ViBrANT
Viral and Bacterial Adhesin Network Training
The Innovative Training Network ViBrANT [Viral and Bacterial Adhesin Network Training] brings together world-leading European scientists to train 15 graduate students [early stage researchers] in interdisciplinary research into viral and bacterial adhesins. ViBrANT is an intersectoral network of nine academic institutions, one non-profit research institute, three SMEs, and one large enterprise. The aim of this project is that the students will translate fundamental research into technologies with a strong positive impact on European socio-economic development and the care of patients with infectious diseases – both during their PhDs and after.
Website: ViBrANT
Main goals
- Within ViBrANT, bottom-up research in adhesion is carried out, from clinical microbiological research, through functional studies of adhesins, to the elucidation of structures and the design of new diagnostic tests and devices.
- To use knowledge to combat infections, we have set up an interdisciplinary environment drawing on engineering, physical and biomedical sciences from academia and industry.
Project Number: 765042
Project Duration: January 2018 to December 2021
Eligible Cost: 3 925 220.40 €
Financial support from the European Union: 3 925 220.40 €
Project Type: MSCA-ITN-ETN
Region of Intervention: Europe
Results
- ViBrANT partners have been developing diagnostics based on new understanding of viral infections. The future is personalised medicine – where the drug you get is the one that is right for the infection you have, and not a blunderbuss killing every organism in sight;
- New models of how adhesins are expressed on the surface of bacteria have been developed;
- They are starting to understanding the structure of the extraordinarily long trimeric autotransporters;
- They are developing novel new antifouling approaches to prevent bacterial adhesion onto biological and non-biological surfaces;
- They are developing miniaturised, rapid diagnostics that may revolutionise patient care.
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