HAP2 | Host-targeted Approaches for the Prevention and the treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia

Summary
“HAP2” aims to develop stratified host-directed drugs and biomarkers to enhance the prevention and the treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and develop precision medicine in infectious diseases.
HAP is an infectious disease of major concern in the world, and the most frequent cause of hospital-acquired infections with 500,000 episodes being treated every year in Europe. Despite the development of European recommendations, the incidence remains high, with dramatic medical consequences: existing therapies and preventive measures do not result in the expected favourable outcome (clinical cure and survival) for 30% of patients. HAP are moreover the main cause of antibiotic consumption in European hospitals and are increasingly induced by drug-resistant pathogens. New, alternative and more effective host-targeted strategies are therefore urgently needed to fight antibiotic resistance.
The ambition of “HAP2” is to revolutionize the management of HAP: capitalising on the novel concept of critical-illness related immunosuppression altering the host-pathogens interactions, we propose a complete reappraisal of the physiopathology of HAP based on the concept of respiratory dysbiosis. “The HAP2” project will reach two ground-breaking objectives in the field of bacterial infections: first the development of host-targeted approaches for the prevention and the treatment of a severe bacterial infection through the supplementation of the IL-12/IFN-γ axis which is defective in patients at risk of pneumonia; second the development of a clinico-biological score based on an integrative assessment of the host-pathogen interactions and genetic variation, to predict the course of HAP and the response to treatment. Our interdisciplinary consortium, bringing together 10 partners from academia and industry with expertise in clinical trials, immunology, microbiome analysis, omics and social sciences is uniquely placed to achieve this ambition within this 5-year project.
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Web resources: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/847782
Start date: 01-01-2020
End date: 31-12-2026
Total budget - Public funding: 9 996 350,00 Euro - 9 996 350,00 Euro
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“HAP2” aims to develop stratified host-directed drugs and biomarkers to enhance the prevention and the treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and develop precision medicine in infectious diseases.
HAP is an infectious disease of major concern in the world, and the most frequent cause of hospital-acquired infections with 500,000 episodes being treated every year in Europe. Despite the development of European recommendations, the incidence remains high, with dramatic medical consequences: existing therapies and preventive measures do not result in the expected favourable outcome (clinical cure and survival) for 30% of patients. HAP are moreover the main cause of antibiotic consumption in European hospitals and are increasingly induced by drug-resistant pathogens. New, alternative and more effective host-targeted strategies are therefore urgently needed to fight antibiotic resistance.
The ambition of “HAP2” is to revolutionize the management of HAP: capitalising on the novel concept of critical-illness related immunosuppression altering the host-pathogens interactions, we propose a complete reappraisal of the physiopathology of HAP based on the concept of respiratory dysbiosis. “The HAP2” project will reach two ground-breaking objectives in the field of bacterial infections: first the development of host-targeted approaches for the prevention and the treatment of a severe bacterial infection through the supplementation of the IL-12/IFN-γ axis which is defective in patients at risk of pneumonia; second the development of a clinico-biological score based on an integrative assessment of the host-pathogen interactions and genetic variation, to predict the course of HAP and the response to treatment. Our interdisciplinary consortium, bringing together 10 partners from academia and industry with expertise in clinical trials, immunology, microbiome analysis, omics and social sciences is uniquely placed to achieve this ambition within this 5-year project.

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Call topic

SC1-BHC-14-2019

Update Date

26-10-2022
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Horizon 2020
H2020-EU.3. SOCIETAL CHALLENGES
H2020-EU.3.1. SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and well-being
H2020-EU.3.1.3. Treating and managing disease
H2020-EU.3.1.3.0. Cross-cutting call topics
H2020-SC1-2019-Two-Stage-RTD
SC1-BHC-14-2019 Stratified host-directed approaches to improve prevention, treatment and/or cure of infectious diseases