13th April 2015
Designworks and partners awarded €6 million funding for Ultradian project
MediWales members, Designworks, are partners in the Ultradian project which has just been awarded 6 million euros from the EU’s eight framework programme, Horizon 2020. Only 5% of submitted proposals were awarded funding.
Designworks have done incredibly well to achieve this funding as the competition was of top class from all over the EU. Their partners in the Ultradian project are UiB, the University of Bristol, Karolinska Institute, Evangelismos General Hospital in Athens and Olink AB.
Ultradian combines a range of technological innovations. 24 hour sampling of Microdialysate fluid is made possible by using an ambulatory fraction collector, allowing patients to continue their normal everyday activities, instead of being hospitalised.
Ultrasensitive measuring methods, developed at UiB and Uppsala University, allow a large range of hormones to be measured in tiny microliter fractions, providing a portrait of the endocrine variations over the 24 hour cycle.
Ultradian is an excellent example of a joint project, using expertise from different centres. Clinicians, as well as clinical chemists, engineers, biotechnologists and health economists.