Smart pro­gnost­ic tools for bio­tech­no­logy and medicine

Mar­tin­sried, 28/08/2017 — In the middle of August, the Fed­er­al Min­istry for Eco­nom­ic Affairs and Energy gave the green light to the cooper­a­tion net­work ​“MoDiPro”. With about 140,000 euros, the net­work part­ners are sup­por­ted ini­tially for one year. In the net­work, com­puter-based mod­els shall be developed in order to make val­id pre­dic­tions and to cre­ate the pos­sib­il­ity to act pre­vent­ively in bio­tech­no­lo­gic­al research, devel­op­ment and pro­duc­tion as well as in the clin­ic. The part­ners com­bine expert­ises from medi­um-sized indus­tries, academies and clin­ics. ​“MoDiPro” was ini­ti­ated by the Indus­tri­elle Bio­tech­no­lo­gie Bay­ern Net­zwerk GmbH (IBB Net­zwerk GmbH). The kick-off meet­ing took place in July in Mar­tin­sried near Munich.

What is it about?

​“Models for diagnostics and process optim­iz­a­tion” — this is behind the acronym ​“MoDiPro”. The net­work aims to open up unused pro­ductiv­ity poten­tials in bio­tech­no­lo­gic­al indus­tri­al pro­cesses and to devel­op new meth­ods for indi­vidu­al­ized medi­cine by means of mod­ern com­puter-sup­por­ted mod­el­ing. To this end, net­work part­ners from data col­lec­tion, mod­el­ing, soft­ware / hard­ware devel­op­ment and end users work closely togeth­er. Appro­pri­ate net­work products are e.g. dia­gnost­ic tools and digit­al decision-sup­port­ing tools for phys­i­cians or clev­er sensor-con­trol-mod­ules that optim­ize indus­tri­al pro­duc­tion pro­cesses in real-time.

Added value.

Prof. Har­alabos Zorbas, Man­aging Dir­ect­or of IBB Net­zwerk GmbH, emphas­izes the added value of the net­work: ​“Cooper­a­tion net­works provide a highly fer­tile ground for imple­ment­ing innov­at­ive ideas more effi­ciently and eco­nom­ic­ally in R&D pro­jects and for real­iz­ing mar­ket-ready products and pro­cesses. Accord­ing to our exper­i­ence with three cooper­a­tion net­works, I am con­vinced that also with­in ​‘MoDiPro’ future-ori­ented pro­jects and products will be cre­ated!” In addi­tion to the organ­iz­a­tion of reg­u­lar net­work meet­ings, IBB Net­zwerk GmbH sup­ports its part­ners in acquir­ing fur­ther, suit­able pro­ject part­ners as well as in ini­ti­at­ing and elab­or­at­ing R&D pro­pos­als. Fur­ther­more, the con­tact to poten­tial cus­tom­ers and end users, e.g. large-scale indus­tries and clin­ics, shall be strengthened.

Join the network!

​“MoDiPro” has been fun­ded ret­ro­act­ively since June 2017 by the Fed­er­al Min­istry for Eco­nom­ic Affairs and Energy with­in the frame­work of the ​“Cent­ral Innov­a­tion Pro­gram for SMEs”. The fund­ing sum is about 140,000 euros for the first year and cov­ers 90% of the total costs. A con­tinu­ation in a second phase will be pur­sued. Cur­rently, the net­work con­sists of the small and medi­um-sized com­pan­ies AptaIT GmbH, ATG:biosynthetics GmbH, Bio­max Inform­at­ics AG, cel­lasys GmbH, Insilico Bio­tech­no­logy GmbH, provenion GmbH, Trace Ana­lyt­ics GmbH and TWT GmbH, as well as the ​“Data-driv­en com­pu­ta­tion­al mod­el­ing” group at Helm­holtz Zen­trum München and the ​“Spe­cialty divi­sion for sys­tems bio­tech­no­logy” at the Tech­nic­al Uni­ver­sity of Munich. Inter­ested com­pan­ies who would like to par­ti­cip­ate in R&D pro­jects are wel­come to join the net­work! Source: IBB Net­zwerk GmbH/​ki