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Healthy Aging Through Internet Counselling in the Elderly (HATICE)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2017,

"Diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity, hypercholesterolemia, smoking and physical inactivity are common in elderly persons and are all associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction, stroke and dementia. Efficacious treatments of these cardiovascular diseases are available, but in elderly patients with multiple cardiovascular diseases and risk factors however, treatment is currentl ...
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Bedside monitoring of infection based on exhaled breath (BreathDx)

Start date: Nov 1, 2013, End date: Oct 31, 2017,

Molecular analysis of exhaled breath is a new frontier in medical testing with an enormous potential for monitoring respiratory disease.Breath tests are non-invasive and require minimal patient effort. This makes them applicable in a wide range of settings varying from theintensive care unit (ICU) to home. Respiratory infections are the primary cause of death in ICU. More than half of the patients ...
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A Portable bihormonal Closed Loop for Diabetes (PCDIAB)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2016,

The aim of PCDIAB is to build and evaluate a bihormonal (insulin and glucagon) artificial pancreas (AP) with automated closed loop glycaemic control for insulin treated patients with diabetes. This will be a breakthrough in diabetes management. We will miniaturize our current prototype consisting of well-established continuous glucose monitors, an insulin pump and a glucagonpump. The housing will ...
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Unbiased Biomarkers for the Prediction of Respiratory Disease Outcomes (U-BIOPRED)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

RationaleThe inability of pre-clinical studies to predict clinical efficacy is a major bottleneck in drug development. In severe asthma this bottleneck results from: a lack of useful and validated biomarkers, underperforming pre-clinical models, inadequate and incomplete sub-phenotyping, and insufficient disease understanding.HypothesisThe use of biomarker profiles comprised of various types of hi ...
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Development of a bioartificial liver therapy in acute liver failure (BALANCE)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2015,

In BALANCE, the companies Hep-Art, Pharmacell and BioPredic join forces with academic partners Amsterdam Medical Centre and University of Edinburgh to offer Acute Liver Failure (ALF) patients a bioartificial liver-support system for bridging the waiting period for liver transplantation or recovery of the diseased liver.ALF is a highly lethal disorder and liver transplantation is the only life-savi ...
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