A diagnostic test to improve surveillance and care of COVID-19 patients

  • Devaux, Yvan (PI)
  • Firat, Huseyin (CoPI)
  • Schneider, Reinhard (PI)
  • Petretto, Enrico (PI)
  • deWindt, Leon J. (PI)
  • Brandenburger, Timo (PI)
  • Baker, Andy (PI)
  • Karaduzovic-Hadziabdic, Kanita (PI)
  • Martelli, Fabio (PI)
  • Ferdinandy, Peter (CoPI)
  • Scholz, Markus (PI)
  • Lustrek, Mitja (PI)
  • Badimon, Lina (PI)
  • Ferreira, Lino (PI)

Project Details

Description

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by infection with SARS coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has reached pandemic proportions with more than 7 million people infected and 0.4 million people killed worldwide. Death rates are accentuated by cardiovascular comorbidities and arrhythmias leading to unexpected major cardiovascular events. Being able to identify COVID-19 patients at risk of developing cardiovascular events leading to death would allow improving surveillance and care. Currently, there is no accurate method to predict outcome of COVID-19 patients. COVIRNA is a patient-centered Innovation Action aiming to satisfy this urgent and unmet need. COVIRNA will complete and deploy a prognostic system based on cardiovascular biomarkers of COVID-19 clinical outcomes combined with digital tools and artificial intelligence analytics (i.e. prediction model). Complementary expertise of 15 EU partners from the healthcare sector, academia, association and industry will allow conducting a large retrospective study on existing cohorts of COVID-19 patients. By upscaling the already validated and patented research use only FIMICS panel of cardiac-enriched long noncoding RNA biomarkers into an in-vitro diagnostic test (COVIRNA) adapted to COVID-19 patients, the project will quickly deliver a minimally-invasive, simple yet robust and affordable prognosis tool that can be used in the context of the current COVID-19 crisis as well as in further major health issues. By tackling the cardiovascular complications in COVID-19, known to contribute significantly to mortality, the project outputs are expected to have a major impact on the pandemic outcomes. The COVIRNA test will be CE-marked and prepared for commercialization, allowing to risk stratify patients, adapt therapies and to inform drug design.
AcronymCOVIRNA
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date1/11/201/11/22

Funding

  • European Commission: €3,874,497.25

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