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Tar­get­AMD 1.0

The pro­ject Tar­get­AMD was fun­ded by the European Com­mis­sion in the con­text of the Sev­enth Frame­work Pro­gramme clas­si­fied to the top­ic health.

Tar­get­AMD brought toge­ther an interdiscipli­nary team of out­stand­ing sci­ent­ists from 8 European coun­tries. Five en­ter­prises, three aca­dem­ic part­ners, five Uni­ver­sity Hos­pit­als and Uni­ver­sit­ies rep­res­en­ted the in­ter­na­tion­al con­sor­ti­um of 13 part­ners.

The pro­ject was led by the Uni­ver­sity of Geneva, Prof. Gab­ri­ele Thu­mann, Dept. of Oph­thal­mo­logy and as­sisted by pro­fes­sion­al EU pro­ject man­age­ment of RWTH Aachen Uni­ver­sity, Ms. Maria Perdikomati-Dahmen.

The pro­jects’ aim was to de­vel­op a trans­po­son-based gene the­ra­py for the ex­ud­at­ive form of Age-re­lated Mac­u­lar De­gen­er­a­tion (AMD), and to trans­late the treat­ment in­to the First-In-Man clini­cal tri­al (phase Ib/ IIa) in Europe. The mul­ti­fa­ceted con­sor­ti­um rep­res­en­ted spe­cial­ists of­fer­ing a broad pan­el of ex­per­i­ences and know­ledge in the patho­logy and treat­ment of AMD with key com­pet­ences in the fields of ge­net­ic en­gin­eer­ing, mo­lecu­lar and cell bio­logy, in vivo mod­el­ling, ocu­lar sur­gery, clini­cal stud­ies, qual­ity con­trol and GMP-grade pro­duc­tion.

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The in­ter­na­tion­al con­sor­ti­um of 13 part­ners:

 
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The EU Re­search Frame­work Pro­gramme is the world’s largest fund­ing pro­gramme for re­search pro­jects. The Sev­enth Frame­work Pro­gramme (FP7) was avail­able for a term of sev­en years (2007–2013) with a budget of more than € 54 bil­lion.

The ‘know­ledge tri­angle’ – re­search, edu­ca­tion and in­nov­a­tion – is a core factor in European ef­forts to meet the am­bi­tious Lis­bon goals. FP7 bundled all re­search-re­lated EU ini­ti­at­ives toge­ther un­der a com­mon roof play­ing a cru­cial role in reach­ing the goals of growth, com­pet­it­ive­ness, and em­ploy­ment.

The Tar­get­AMD Pro­ject has re­ceived fund­ing from the European Union’s Sev­enth Frame­work Pro­gramme for re­search, tech­no­lo­gic­al de­vel­op­ment, and demon­stra­tion un­der grant agree­ment no 305134.

Table 1: Key com­pet­ences of the whole con­sor­ti­um

TargetAMD Key competences of the consortium members