Public-private partnership receives EUR 13.4M for cancer project
OSEO, the French innovation funding agency, awarded EUR 13.4 million ($17.4 million) to a public-private partnership aiming to build a national network to develop predictive experimental cancer models. Oncodesign S.A. (Dijon, France) will lead the seven-year Innovative Models Initiative (IMODI) project, which will focus on developing models for xenotransplanting tumors to immunodeficient mice, modeling a human tumor environment in mice and demonstrating model productivity. The project also will include a centralized biobank with more than 40,000 biological samples, as well as data analysis tools to identify tumor and immunological biomarkers. The award was part of OSEO's Focal-Point Research and Development Projects for Competitiveness Cluster, which aims to support R&D partnerships with significant potential for economic spin-offs. ...