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== About CureMILS ==
== About CureMILS ==

Revision as of 11:41, 5 March 2021


                



CureMILS

"A reprogramming-based strategy for drug repositioning in patients with mitochondrial DNA-associated Leigh syndrome (MILS)"

EJP-RD


CureMILS: European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases - JTC2020

  • EJP RD JTC 2020: "PRE-CLINICAL RESEARCH TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE THERAPIES FOR RARE DISEASES” - Project EJPRD20-010
  • Duration: 36 months
  • Start: 2021-06-01


About CureMILS

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-associated Leigh syndrome (MILS) is a severe early-onset brain disease affecting 1/100,000 newborns. MILS is typically caused by mtDNA mutations in the ATP-generating subunit MT-ATP6. There are no treatments available for MILS. In fact, drug discovery is particularly challenging for MILS. The limited access to patient neural tissue and the difficulty to manipulate mtDNA hinder the development of transgenic animal models and cellular models, which are needed for treatment discovery and development. Led by Prof. Dr. Alessandro Prigione of the Heinrich Heine University, the CureMILS project aims to employ a novel approach to enable drug discovery of MILS.

Aims

The consortium will employ neural cells generated from MILS patients via cellular reprogramming to carry out a large-scale screening using marketed drugs, thereby allowing the identification of therapeutic strategies.
The proof-of-concept study demonstrated that this approach is feasible and relevant. The project proposes to extend this approach using a large high-quality library of repurposable compounds (more than 5,500). The consortium will validate hit compounds by combining mitochondrial profiling with multi-omics analysis using various reprogramming-derived neural models (neural progenitors, neurons, brain organoids, and blood-brain barrier cells) from different MILS patients.

Objectives

The consortium will identify drugs suited for repositioning as interventions in MILS, laying the foundation for a multi-national clinical trial and a concrete path towards a cure for MILS.
Moreover, we will establish a paradigmatic working pipeline for reprogramming-driven drug discovery and repositioning for rare neurological disorders.

Coordinator

Heinrich Heine University

Network

Consortium members

Frauenhofer IME University of Innsbruck Radboud University Medical Center University of Helsinki Institute of Genetics and Animal Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences Verona University LCSB University of Luxembourg International Mito Patients

Collaborators

Charité University Heinrich Heine University Radboud University Medical Center link=https://www.oroboros.at/ Oroboros Foundation IRCCS Neurological Institute C. Besta University of Milan Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Deutsches MITONET e.V.

Oroboros project involvement

Oroboros is a collaborator on the project providing infrastructure and expertise required to conduct respirometric measurements for the project.

Links

News and articles

2021-01-19 Press release: Fraunhofer ITMP involved in two new European research consortia on research rare childhood diseases

Support

The EJP RD initiative has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°825575. EJP RD is coordinated by INSERM, France.

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