CURE

Working on treating asthma using phage therapy

CURE aims to resolve the ongoing asthma pandemic using phage therapy. This method treats bacterial infections, which often persists (in the form of upper respiratory infections) after acute asthma attacks, and will control the immune dysregulation of the disease.

MAIN THEMES:

Biotech & Health

TOPICS:

asthmaphage therapy

COORDINATING ORGANISATION:

Ethniko Kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athinon

WEBSITE:

www.cureasthma.eu/

Stories related to CURE project

Serving global epidemic challenges through FET

Biotech & Health

To support the response to epidemic diseases, it is essential to identify infection potential, draw up a long-term treatment strategy and address the link between contagion and social adaptation along with related economic impacts.

Discover more stories

Related projects

VIRUSCAN

Using optomechanical devices to measure mass and stiffness parameters of virions with unique sensitivity

CIMPLEX

Interconnecting the spread of infectious diseases with social, economic and other systemic aspects, able to analyse the systemic risk inherent to epidemics and social contagion processes.

EPIWORK

Developing a set of tools and knowledge to design infrastructures that could forecast epidemics

Graphene Flagship

Developing graphene-based materials for various applications

Browse all FET projects