Precision care bringing technology innovation into oncology (PRIO)
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| Coordinator | Karolinska Institutet - Institutionen för Onkologi och Patologi (OnkPat) |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 500 000 |
| Project duration | May 2020 - January 2021 |
| Status | Completed |
| Venture | Test beds for society´s challenges |
| Call | Test beds for the challenges of society - preparation project 2020 |
Important results from the project
The aims of the testbed project are to bring in next generation technologies of precision medicine to hospitals by connecting academic and industrial technology development to hospital diagnostics development. Overwhelming engagement to solve this need has been received from meditech and pharma as well as from Hospital and academic parties, KI and SciLifeLab.
Expected long term effects
Karolinska University Hospital has initiated a precision medicine task force together with Karolinska Institutet, and the phenotype level technology testbed is incorporated as an important component of that development. During the planning phase, industry stakeholders have provided wealth of feedback, which has shaped the plan for coming testbed offers. This results in the connection of new technologies to build on already ongoing genomics initiatives and so that academic technology development can be linked to healthcare.
Approach and implementation
We have planned to build a sustainable PRIO testbed that will gradually take form during the next coming three years by an immediate start off with setting up sample prep stations, connecting the academic expertise and hospital sample flows, followed by gradual buildup of the testing capacity. The plan is to start testing precision medicine tools and technologies already in year one and moving towards clinical trial support in last year of the funding period.