
IGEN
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Open Access Mandate for Publications assignment_turned_in Project2015 - 2015Partners:IGENIGENFunder: European Commission Project Code: 698752Overall Budget: 71,429 EURFunder Contribution: 50,000 EUREPIGEN test is a ready-to-use tool capable to lead the oncologist to the best Non Smal Cell Lung Cancer treatment, the most common subtype of lung cancer (80% of cases). The standar treatments to combat NSCLC are both chemo- and radiotherapy, but many patients (up to 65%) presents resistance, and currently there is not any tool available for the clinician to predict it. The EPIGEN test will allow the clinician a patient stratification in terms of the patient susceptibility to radio- and chemotherapy, and therefore lead for a personalyzed prescription. The EPIGEN test tecnology is based on the determination of the methylation percentage of the epigenetic biomarker IGFBP-3 in the patient tumor samples. The methylation percentage of IGFBP-3 is determined by using qMS-PCR (quantitative methylation specific polymerase chain) tecnique, a well known and extended biochemistry tecnique. The methylation percentage provided by using the EPIGEN test protocol and reagents in the qMS-PCR tecnique will lead the clinician for the optimal NSCLC treatment, avoiding the possible patient resistance to chemo and radiotharapy, and therefore unnecesary side effects and costly therapies.
more_vert Open Access Mandate for Publications assignment_turned_in Project2012 - 2017Partners:University of Bedfordshire, Charles University, UCSC, CAIBER, NICHE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LTD +12 partnersUniversity of Bedfordshire,Charles University,UCSC,CAIBER,NICHE SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LTD,SERGAS,IGEN,University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli",UCLM,CHU Bordeaux,University of Ulm,Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse,DIABETES FRAIL LIMITED,VUB,Ghent University, Gent, Belgium,Cardiff University,HEXABIO SARLFunder: European Commission Project Code: 278803more_vert