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Upscaled cell and exosome trapping
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UN Sustainable Development Goals(SDG)
This innovation contributes to the following SDG(s)
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 3
Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

The UN explains: "Significant strides have been made in increasing life expectancy and reducing some of the common killers responsible for child and maternal mortality.

Major progress has also been made on increasing access to clean water and sanitation, reducing malaria, tuberculosis, polio and the spread of HIV/AIDS.

However, many more efforts are needed to control a wide range of diseases and address many different persistent and emerging health issues."

The EU-funded Research Project
This innovation was developed under the Horizon Europe project AcouSome with an end date of 31/12/2025
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Description of Project AcouSome
AcouSome is a consortium stemming from the ongoing EIC-FET Open BioWings project, and consists of four of the BioWings project partners (AcouSort AB, DTU, Lund University and Day One Srl). AcouSome has the ambition to build on the disruptive technology of thin film actuated acoustofluidics developed in BioWings. The results obtained in BioWings will be combined with a polymer acoustofluidics technology developed in the ongoing Eurostars AcouPlast project to fabricate a polymer-based microfluidic chip for separating and enriching exosomes from blood for use in the next generation of point-of-care diagnostics. Exosomes are nano-sized extracellular vesicles that are released by a significant number of different cell types. They are considered an important biomarker, with high diagnostic potential in a wide range of diseases, including different kinds of cancer (glioblastoma, melanoma, prostate cancer and many others), hepatitis, kidney, cardiovascular and liver diseases. Therefore, there is an increasing interest in exosomes as a powerful diagnostic tool. Having the opportunity to isolate and analyze exosomes from a routine blood test is crucial for early detection of a wide range of diseases. In the AcouSome chip exosomes will be separated and enriched from blood by combining two steps already developed by Lund University and AcouSort. First plasma will be separated from blood by flowing the blood through a microfluidic channel, pushing the cells towards the centerline of the channel using ultrasoundand and subsequently splitting the cell and plasma flows. Exosomes will then be trapped and enriched from the plasma flow using a localized acoustic field. The acoustofluidic chip will be driven using thin-film actuators as invented together with DTU in the BioWings project. The exosome separation cartridge is intended for sample preparation in research labs and future diagnostic point-of-care instruments.

Innnovation Radar's analysis of this innovation is based on data collected on 22/03/2024.
The unique id of this innovation in the European Commission's IT systems is: 120820