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The project team is a consortium drawn from ten leading European research institutions and high-tech companies:
University of Teesside
The Teesside Centre for Nanotechnology and Microfabrication (TCNM), within the University of Teesside, specialises in nano-microfabricated sensing systems. Professor Zulfiqur Ali is the overall Project Co-ordinator for the DVT-IMP project.
Professor Zulfiqur Ali and Dr. Vincent Auger provide scientific coordination, specifically contributing their expertise to the design, development and manufacture of microfluidic components of the device.
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Claude-Bernard University-Lyon
The scientific expertise of the Laboratoire de Sciences Analytiques (LSA) is focused on basic research in analytical chemistry and its applications in industrial, environment and biomedical processes. Within the LSA, the activities of the Supported Microdetectors Group are mainly devoted to the conception and characterisation of (bio)chemical sensors at the nano- and micro-technology interface.
Dr. Nicole Jaffrezic-Renault will lead the design, development and optimisation of the analytical approach and hence the bio-layer incorporated within the cartridge.
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Comenius University, Bratislava
Comenius University is oldest and largest University in Slovakia, specialising in both teaching and research across the range of scientific disciplines. It is committed to providing an outstanding educational environment in which to develop and enhance their research activities, and to look towards further developing external partnerships with business and academic institutions throughout the rest of the world.
Professor Jan Kyselovic and Professor
Tibor Hianik
will devote their clinical expertise to the development of the device conceptual model, clinical software and will lead on the validation and testing of the prototype.
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Helena Biosciences
Helena Biosciences is an international company with a strong presence in Western, Central and Eastern Europe and is a leading market player in the design, manufacture and marketing of diagnostic products on a global basis.
Dr. David Snell will drive the clinical targeting and alignment of the DVT-IMP project and will provide resources and expertise during testing undertaken within clinical laboratories as well as crucial market insight.
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Parc Cientific de Barcelona
Parc Científic de Barcelona is a cornerstone of the innovation system mounted by the Universitat de Barcelona. The Parc Científic de Barcelona hosts twenty companies, three research centres, and a bio-incubator for technology-based companies, all of which work in emerging research areas of chemistry, pharmacy, biotechnology and nano-bioengineering.
Professor Josep Samitier, Dr.
Abdelhamid Errachid
and Dr. Chris Mills are working to develop aspects of the device detection and reporting system and will also contribute intensively to the prototype integration and testing.
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Fraunhofer Gesellschaft
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft is internationally recognised as the world’s largest contract research organization. Fraunhofer IZM is one of the contract research institutes of Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, focusing on microelectronic packaging and microsystem technologies. The expertise in polymer microfabrication and microfluidics for biosensors is contributed to the project by the Department of Polytronic Systems.
Dr. Christof Strohhöfer and Dr.
Karlheinz Bock
lead the design, development and optimisation of a disposable cartridge system in which to house the bioanalysis, whilst providing guidance to the overall device design.
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Budapest University of Technology & Economics
The Department of Electronics Technology at Budapest University of Technology & Economics was founded more than thirty years ago, to teach and research the subjects of material science, physical design and manufacturing technology in the field of electronics and sensors.
Dr. Hunor Sántha will lead the design, development and integration of software and electronic circuitry elements of the device.
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Université Paris-Sud
The Institut de Chimie Moleculaires et Matériaux d’Orsay (ICMMO) is a Joint Research Unit of Université Paris-Sud and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The ICMMO comprises 120 researchers in fields from organic and inorganic chemistry and biochemistry to materials sciences.
Dr. Hafsa Korri-Youssoufi and Dr.
Hélène Dorizon will be central to the development and optimisation of device analytical system, working on enhanced sensor performance.
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Haptogen Ltd
Haptogen Ltd. was established as a spinout from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK in 2002. Haptogen’s world-class scientific team pioneers a novel approach, focusing know-how and patent protected technology on developing antibodies against a range of clinically important, antigenic targets.
Professor Andrew Porter and Dr. Caroline Barelle will utilize Haptogen's proprietary protein-engineering technologies to develop and optimise recombinant antibodies specifically for the DVT-IMP device.
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Cenamps
Cenamps is a national centre for emerging small-scale technologies and works closely with industry, from multinationals to high-tech start-ups, investors, government agencies and leading researchers to stimulate and manage market-led innovation, thus enabling the development of new products as well as strengthening the regional economic foundation, R&D capabilities and performance.
Shak Gohir and Dr. Amanda McMurray drive the project management of the day-to-day activities aswell as leading the project exploitation, education and dissemination activities, respectively.
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