Repado targets new diagnostics for pandemic preparedness!
Repado, as part of a multidisciplinary research consortium, aims to enable rapid diagnostics of emergency transboundary infectious diseases. For the next 4 years, the EU funded project "Pipeline for rapid diagnostics of emergency transboundary infectious diseases" (PREPARE-TID), will target infectious agents of three types: an ongoing neglected epidemic, an ongoing emerging epidemic, and an ongoing elimination drive. The aim is to develop the necessary in vitro diagnostic tools for preparedness needed in case of the emergence of infectious agent X.
Biomedical researchers will work alongside epidemiologists, clinicians, veterinarians, and Repado’s software engineers to implement a pipeline from a mobile suitcase sequencing laboratory with a simple bioinformatics to a fieldable rapid nucleic acid extraction procedure, a mobile smartphone linked molecular point-of-care and a multiplex PCR one-health surveillance platform, and a one health digital platform. These will provide innovative diagnostic solutions for cross-border health threats at international level.
PREPARE-TID will increase the accessibility to novel diagnostics for detection of pathogens with pandemic potential and the consortium will deliver point-of-care and mobile diagnostics, which can be easily deployed and mass produced in case of an epidemic or pandemic.
Horizon Europe is the European Union’s research and innovation (R&I) framework programme for the period 2021 to 2027.
