Funding programme: NWA-ORC, Dutch Science Agenda
Duration: sept 2022 – sept 2027
Total budget: 5,1 M€
Consortium: 8 researchers, 10 co-funders and 9 stakeholder organisations
Coordinator: AmsterdamUMC
Showcase of a successful project
The CIRCULAR consortium brings together researchers from different disciplines with patients, healthcare providers, SMEs, larger companies, and citizen scientists. Together, they aim to pilot a novel research approach for atrial fibrillation that is focused on co-creation with patients. Using citizen science, patients already identified five leading triggers to this cardiac disease, which will be further explored in this project. Strong collaboration across the knowledge chain is key to the project.
The NWA-ORC programme aims to facilitate research leading to scientific as well as societal breakthroughs. In CIRCULAR, scientific breakthroughs are foreseen in disentangling the underlying mechanisms leading to atrial fibrillation. In addition, a molecular human atrial fibrillation atlas will be built, serving new high-throughput drug discovery and biomarker research. Societal breakthroughs are foreseen in the development of novel therapies, and mainly to follow up on the treasure of insights atrial fibrillation patients have to offer on their disease. Importantly, the project will solely utilise, and advance, animal-free model systems.
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