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      Biomarkers for disease modelling

      Research Group Translational Bioinformatics
      Resarch Environment Systems Biology

      Biomarkers for disease modelling

      Research Group Translational Bioinformatics
      Resarch Environment Systems Biology

      Quick Facts

      Full project name

      Biomarkers for toxicity testing

      Duration

      October 2017 – May 2022

      Funding and collaboration

      The Knowledge Foundation, AstraZeneca, Takara Bio Europe

      This project is one of the three subprojects within the synergy project BioMine - Data-mining for biomarker discovery, selection, and validation. In this subproject we investigate how large-scale biomolecular data can be used to identify specific biomarkers for disease modelling

      Of specific interest in this project are relevant biomarkers for monitoring the progression of cardiac hypertrophy and cardiomyopathy. The project is performed in close collaboration between the University of Skövde, AstraZeneca Gothenburg and Takara Bio Europe.

      Disease modelling

      Recent progress in the stem cell field has opened up many promising novel research avenues. One of the most exciting ones is disease modeling, in which for example human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) can be generated from patients with genetic disorders.

      To elucidate disease mechanisms, human primary cells isolated from patients can also be examined, but many types of human cells, such as neural cells and cardiomyocytes, are unfortunately very difficult to obtain via tissue biopsies. Thus, for many diseases, efficient model systems for studies of disease mechanisms are currently lacking and hiPSC-based model systems have a high potential to fill this gap by delivering relevant human-based disease models.

      Identification of relevant biomarkers for modeling of cardiac disease

      Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a serious condition that can be either inherited through passing of mutated genes from your parents, or acquired as an effect due to another disease (e.g. diabetes). However, many times the cause of cardiomyopathy is unknown and appropriate human model systems to study the underlying mechanistic behind this disease are not available. This project focuses on identification of relevant biomarkers for modeling of cardiac disease such as cardiac hypertrophy and cardiac myopathy. These biomarkers are expected to be important for better understanding of the disease progression and prognosis and will reveal novel insights of the mechanisms of the disease.

      A stem cell-based in vitro disease model

      The goal of this subproject is to develop a stem cell-based in vitro disease model, which can recapitulate important aspects of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and enable modeling of cardiac associated diseases and screening of pharmaceuticals. In addition, identification of appropriate biomarkers to monitor the progression of the disease and the effect of pharmaceuticals in patients with different genetic background will support the development of personalized medicine. The anticipated outcome of the project includes;

      • an in vitro model recapitulating important aspects of cardiac hypertrophy
      • large-scale omics datasets from the in vitro model that can be used for mining of biomarkers
      • early and sensitive biomarkers to detect initiation and progression of cardiac hypertrophy.
      • novel candidate factors with potential to inhibit or reverse the development of cardiomyopathy

      Project Manager

      Adjunct Professor

      Participating Researchers

      Sepideh Hagvall
      Adjunct Professor
      Peter Sartipy
      Adjunct Professor

      Funding and collaboration

      Knowledge Foundation
      AstraZeneca
      Takara Bio Europe AB
      Published: 3/5/2020
      Edited: 3/5/2020
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