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Early Stage Researchers EDUCational Program on Factor VIII Immunogenicity (EDUC8)

Project
The development of anti-drug antibodies is the major complication of treatment with biotherapeutics. This is particularly true of patients with haemophilia A (HA) who develop neutralizing antibodies to therapeutic factor VIII (FVIII) following replacement therapy with exogenous pro-coagulant FVIII. The onset of neutralizing antibodies to FVIII, referred to as FVIII inhibitors, represents a major societal concern owing to the enormous cost associated to the clinical management of inhibitor-positive patients, that exceeds 200,000€/patient/year. The EDUC8 program is a multidisciplinary training program with exposure of the enrolled ESRs to a core common educational package and development of individual PhD research projects dedicated to decreasing the societal burden associated with the development of anti-FVIII antibodies in Europe. The core educational program includes exposure to basic science in the fields of immunology and hemostasis, to the most advanced “omic” technologies in order to anticipate tomorrow’s scientific discoveries, and to the importance of ethical considerations and public awareness in today’s research. A key component of the training program is provided by immersion of the ESRs in a clinical center for HA, which will provide them with a unique experience and foster the conception of novel and realistic therapeutic approaches. The ESRs will exploit the accumulated theoretic and practical experience in an entrepreneurship training on key strategic, technical, financial and human resource issues required for the creation of startups. In a tribute to the concept of the fully developed mind coined by the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne on education, our ambition is to form a novel generation of scientists with deep scientific knowledge, multicultural exposure, imagination, pragmatism and understanding of both the academic and private sectors. This will foster translational research in European on the immunogenicity of therapeutic proteins.
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Overview

Contributors

PAYVANDI FLORA   Scientific Manager  

Departments involved

Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Medico-Chirurgica e dei Trapianti   Principale  

Type

H20MCITNIF - Horizon 2020_Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions-Innovative Training Network (ITN)/Individual Fellowships (IF)

Funder

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
External Organization Funding Organization

Date/time interval

April 1, 2020 - March 31, 2024

Project duration

48 months

Research Areas

Concepts


Settore MED/09 - Medicina Interna

Publications

Outputs (2)

Effect of DNA methylation on inhibitor development in people with hemophilia A treated with FVIII concentrates 
RESEARCH AND PRACTICE IN THROMBOSIS AND HAEMOSTASIS
ELSEVIER B.V.
2025
Academic Article
Open Access
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Predicting inhibitor development using a random peptide phage-display library approach in the SIPPET cohort 
BLOOD ADVANCES
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEMATOLOGY (ASH)
2024
Academic Article
Open Access
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