Winners of the DIM ELICIT special call for proposals: Fight SARS-CoV-2

SARS-CoV-2 Special Call : Results announcement

Earlier this year, the DIM ELICIT announced a special call for proposals, aimed to support projects developing innovative technologies and methods regarding the analysis, diagnosis and/or treatment to fight SARS-CoV-2.

We are now happy to announce that seven projects were selected within the frame of this call.

The selected projects:

– Determinants of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses tropism in 3D models of human pulmonary epithelia 🔗

• Principal investigator: Lisa Chakrabarti
• Location: Virus and Immunity Unit – CIVIC group – Institut Pasteur

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– Single molecule characterization of the activity of an enzyme and its inhibitors involved in SARS-CoV-2 replication 🔗

• Principal investigator: Vincent Croquette
• Location: Laboratoire de Physique de l’ENS (LPENS) – Ecole Normale Supérieure

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– Low cost assay for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 using antigen-displaying bacteria, lateral flow assay, and magnetic capture 🔗

• Principal investigator: Zoher Gueroui
• Location: Département de Chimie – Ecole Normale Supérieure

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– Volumetric approach to vascular consequences of the COVID-19 in both adults and children 🔗

• Principal investigator: Jean-Baptiste Masson
• Location: Decision and Bayesian Computation laboratory – Institut Pasteur

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POSCOVD: Towards a population-scale Covid-19 diagnosis 🔗

• Principal investigator: Marco Antonio Mendoza
• Location: Genomics Metabolics Unit – Institute of Systems and Synthetic Biology (iSSB) – Team SysFate – Genoscope

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Corona-Intestine – Development of human intestine biomimetic to study SARS-CoV-2 infection in the gut 🔗

• Principal investigator: Nathalie Sauvonnet
• Location: Group Intracellular trafficking and tissue homeostasis – Institut Pasteur

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Covi-Read – Development of a rapid and portable microfluidic test dedicated to the detection of SARS-CoV-2 🔗

• Porteur de projet : Patrick Tabeling
• Localisation : Institut Chimie Biologie Innovation (CBI) – ESPCI

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The DIM ELICIT warmly congratulates all the winners and wishes them full success in these innovative projects of topical matter, during this particular time.