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Giuseppina Barsacchi

Dipartimento di Biologia
Università di Pisa
via G. Carducci, 13
56010 Ghezzano (Pisa) - Italia

Peter Burkill 

Marine Institute
Plymouth University
Drake Circus
Plymouth PL4 8AA - United Kingdom

Rita R. Colwell

Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
University of Maryland
296 Biomolecular Sciences Bldg.
Room 3103
College Park, MD 20742 - USA

Roberto Danovaro

Dipartimento Scienze del Mare
Università Politecnica delle Marche
Via Brecce Bianche
60131 Ancona - Italia

Aldo Fasolo

Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo
Università di Torino
Via Accademia Albertina, 13
10123 Torino - Italia

Bernard Kloareg

Station Biologique Roscoff
Place Georges Teissier - BP74
29682 Roscoff Cedex - France

Noriyuki Satoh

Marine Genomics Unit
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son
Kunigami-gun
904-0495 - Japan

Giuseppina Barsacchi

Dipartimento di Biologia
Università di Pisa

Ferdinando Boero 

Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali
Università del Salento, Lecce

Gary G. Borisy

Director Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL)
Woods Hole, Mass. Usa

Peter Bukill

Director of the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Sciences and professor of Ocean Science, University of Plymouth, Plymoth, UK

Rita R. Colwell

Professor at University of Maryland College Park and at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Environmental Health Sciences, Center for Water and Health
Baltimore, MD, USA

Paul K. Dayton

Integrative Oceanography Division
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California
San Dego, La jolla, CA, USA

Carlos Duarte

Director Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudio Avanzados
Mallorca, Illes Balears, SPAIN

Aldo Fasolo

Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’uomo
Università di Torino

Richard Timothy Hunt – Premio Nobel per la Medicina 2001

London Research Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories
London, UK

Thomas Kiørboe

Professor, Technical University of Denmark
Danish Institute for Fisheries Research
Afd. for Havøkologi og Akvakultur, Kavalergården 6
Charlottenlund, DENMARK

Iain Mattaj

Director General European Molecular Biology Laboratory EMBL
Heidelberg, GERMANY

Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard - Premio Nobel per la Medicina 1995

Director of Dept. of Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Tübingen, GERMANY

Noriyuki Satoh

Department of Zoology, Kyoto University
Kyoto, JAPAN

Torsten Wiesel – Premio Nobel per la Medicina 1981

Vincent and Brooke Astor Professor Emeritus and President Emeritus
The Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Neurobiology
New York, NY, USA

Summary

Ocean Medicines is a network of academic, research centres and SMEs across Europe, with proven experience in higher education, training and endowed with state-of-the art scientific and technical expertise and infrastructures. The aim is to establish a network of collaboration and knowledge-exchange between industrial and academic partners to further develop lead compounds from marine microorganisms having anticancer or anti-infective effects that have already been identified by the consortium. To achieve this goal a mobility programme will be set up to prepare a new generation of marine biodiscovery scientists that will be trained on how to isolate compounds from bioactive bacteria/microalgae and take these through to semi-industrial scale-up for further development and toxicity testing at the pre-clinical level. The Ocean Medicines programme also considers commercialization, innovation and entrepreneurship activities including how to start a new business and how to favor an industrial career to seconded researchers. The establishment of this international research network, with its synergistic effects, will significantly contribute to advance all of the involved Institutes/SMEs to the top level in the field of marine drug discovery.

What we do

SZN is involved in WP2 which targets species of bacteria and microalgae that produce bioactive metabolites with anticancer/anti-infective activities; these species will be bulk cultivated under different light/temperature/pH conditions to optimize production of active metobolites. Extracts and fractions will be further screened and chemically analyzed by the other partners.

Partners

SZN, IBP-CNR, SeaLife Pharma, eCoast, Epi-C, UiT, UNIABDN, MEDINA, UWC

Research Area

Marine Biotechnology

SZN role

Partner

Principal Investigator

Adrianna Ianora

Project Manager

Donatella De Pascale

Project lifetime

December 2015 - December 2019

Funding Institutions

European Commission, under the 7th Framework Programme

Personnel involved

Adrianna Ianora, Principal investigator
Giovanna Romano, Experienced researcher

Summary

This project aims to collect samples at the South Shetland Trough (SST) near the Antarctic Peninsula, one of the few cryogenic deep-sea trenches in the world.
The specific aims of PharmaDeep are to:
(a) Collect marine organisms from deep-and-cold-water habitats that may be unique sources of natural products for the treatment of cancer and infectious diseases.
(b) Perform the first marine biological survey of the unique habitat, the SST.
(c) Compare and contrast the SST fauna and drivers of distribution with other trench ecosystems.
(d) Investigate the interaction of physical and chemical extremes of relevance to understanding the habitability of other planetary bodies.

What we do

SZN will be mainly involved in Zooplankton and Phytoplankton sample collection for taxonomy identification, activity screening investigation and later chemical analysis.

Partners

SZN, IBP-CNR, University of Aberdeen, Universitat de Barcelona, Insituto Español de Oceanografía, BioBridge, University of Chile, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Edinburgh University

Research Area

Marine Biotechnology

SZN role

Partner

Principal Investigator

Adrianna Ianora

Project Manager

Alan Jamieson

Project Lifetime

October 2015 - June 2016

Funding Institutions

European Commission, under the EU EUROFLEETS2 program grant agreement n° 312762

Personnel involved

Adrianna Ianora, Principal investigator
Chiara Lauritano, Post-doc
Christian Galasso, PhD Student