The European Innovation Council (EIC) awards the AcouSort project AcouSome SEK 26 million to develop groundbreaking technology for exosome-based diagnostics
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EIC has announced that they grant AcouSort and its project partners SEK 26 million to develop an acoustofluidic thin-film actuated chip for exosome separation from blood. The project will run for 36 months and is fully funded by the EU.In 2013, James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman and Thomas C. S\xfcdhof were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology - Medicine for their discoveries of exosomes. Since then, significant research has been done in this field, but so far, very few practical applications have been developed.The AcouSome project aims to develop a technology which separates exosomes from blood to enable a robust and reliable exosome-based diagnostics. If successful, the outcome of the project could open up a completely new and very promising field within diagnostics.Currently, there are no adequately efficient methods to automatically isolate exosomes from whole blood. Since blood potentially is a highly infectious substance, the aim is to design an affordable disposable solution to minimize the contamination risk implied in all re-usable instruments.
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