The 2nd General Meeting of HILYSENS will take place at BCA next May...
The HILYSENS project will be public introduced on the closing session of the ILADS Meeting in...
One tick bite can cause many diseases. Lyme Disease is the most prevalent tick-borne infection in Europe and North America. Patients with acute Lyme disease need prompt diagnosis to prevent the development of chronic infections. Current commercial laboratory methods fail to detect a huge amount of cases. As consequence, patients receive delayed or inadequate treatment, leading to more serious symptoms which can be disabling.
HILYSENS will be the first lab-on-a-chip tool allowing specific and sensitive detection of acute, chronic and autoimmunity associated Lyme Disease and ensuring non-invasive, fast, specific and easy diagnosing, prognosis and monitoring. Optimisation of resources, reduction of the associated costs and an increase in the quality of care are some of the potential impacts of HILYSENS .
HILYSENS is a 2 year R+D project funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) under Research for the Benefit of the SMEs. The project officially started on November 1st 2010. The Kick-off Meeting was held in Barcelona on November 8th and was hosted by AROMICS at the PCB.
