Icaro Project

ICARO annual meeting in Leuven (Belgium). June 12, 2024

Laura Egea — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 10:34:19 +0000

Our consortium had its second annual meeting at the Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum (imec) in Leuven. Advances in the in-vitro validation of the microdevices as method of vaccination were discussed and analysed with encouraging results. Future of exploitation and the possibility of increasing the scope of the invention through the EIC Transition tool were also planned.Thank [...]

ICARO Project kick-off. May 9, 2022

befresh — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:34:19 +0000

The future in human vaccines research.

We are delighted to announce the kick-off meeting of ICARO project (Intracellular Carriers Against Resistant microOrganisms) took place in Madrid past 9th of May at the Margarita Salas Centre for Biological Research. This exciting proposal, financed by the European Innovation Council in its Horizon Europe Pathfinder call, brings together experts in microbiology, immunology, nanochemistry, cell biology, microelectronics, and industrial entrepreneurship to develop a novel vaccine platform to fight resistant and emergent infectious diseases.

Our mission is developing new microchips to carry pathogen antigens to the cells thus inducing efficient antigen presentation leading to long-lasting immunological responses. Should the objectives of the project be successfully achieved, ICARO consortium will pave the way to a completely novel approach to develop cost-effective vaccines against intracellular pathogens that remain as a relevant clinical unmet, including CMV, SARS-CoV-2, Salmonella Typhimurium and Leishmania amazonensis, used as model pathogens to assess the feasibility of ICARO biochips platform.

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ICARO annual meeting in Marseille (France). May 10, 2023

befresh — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 10:08:57 +0000

Our consortium has held its first annual meeting at the Center d’immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML, CNRS) to review the progress of the planned tasks. It is a pleasure to gather so many talents from different fields of science working together to meet our goal: the development of a new generation of vaccines to fight resistant [...]