IMPAD: Improved healthcare for patients with primary antibody deficiencies through new strategies eludating their pathophysiology

• Forschungsstelle: EU FRP
• Projektnummer: 00.0502
• Projekttitel Englisch: IMPAD: Improved healthcare for patients with primary antibody deficiencies through new strategies eludating their pathophysiology

Schlüsselwörter (Englisch)

Pure sCO21; B-cells;
Life Sciences; Medicine; Health; Scientific Research

Alternative Projektnummern (Englisch)

EU project number: QLG1-CT-2001-01536

Forschungsprogramme (Englisch)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.1.8 Generic R&D activities

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

See abstract

Weitere Hinweise und Angaben (Englisch)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Biotechnologie Institut Thurgau an der Universität Konstanz

Partner und Internationale Organisationen (Englisch)

Coordinator: Universitätsklinik Freiburg (D)

Abstract (Englisch)

Primary antibody deficiencies like common variable immunodeficiency, IgA-deficiency and the non-X-linked hyper-IgM syndrome are rare, chronic diseases that are severely complicated by recurrent bacterial infections, poorly recognized in daily medical practice and expensive to treat.
To understand their unknown aetiologies, our multidsciplinary approach combines 10 European groups to identify the genetic origins of the deficiencies, the genetic risk factors in different European populations, the defects and changes in inter- and intracellular signalling pathways and their pathophysiological relations to immunological phenotypes and function.

Datenbankreferenzen (Englisch)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 00.0502