Interteam to Manage International iReceptor Plus project
December 18, 2018 — Interteam is one of the twenty international partners in the lucrative iReceptor Plus Project, which is co-funded by the European Union and the Canadian government.
iReceptor Plus aims to promote human immunological data storage, integration and controlled sharing for a wide range of clinical and scientific purposes.
The four-year project will develop an innovative platform to integrate distributed repositories of Adaptive Immune Receptor Repertoire sequencing (AIRR-seq) data for enabling improved personalized medicine and immunotherapy in cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, allergies and infectious diseases.
iReceptor Plus will enable researchers around the world to share and analyze huge immunological datasets taken from healthy individuals and sick patients that have been sequenced and stored in databanks in multiple countries.
The project has received €7.85 million from the EU through the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme and an additional €800,000 from the Canadian government.
Interteam will oversee the project’s day-to-day management, including finance, logistics, reporting, etc. In addition, Interteam is in charge of all aspects relating to marketing, communication, visibility and dissemination.