{"id":576,"date":"2021-08-09T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T08:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/molecularhealth.com\/eu\/?p=576"},"modified":"2023-05-08T14:14:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T13:14:40","slug":"molecular-health-and-essen-university-hospital-launch-collaborative-project-to-improve-care-for-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/molecularhealth.com\/eu\/molecular-health-and-essen-university-hospital-launch-collaborative-project-to-improve-care-for-covid-19-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Molecular Health and Essen University Hospital launch collaborative project to improve care for COVID-19 patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Essen\/Heidelberg, August 9, 2021. On August 1, 2021, the IT biotech company Molecular Health (MH) and Universit\u00e4tsklinikum Essen kicked off a collaborative project funded by the BMG (Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Gesundheit [German Federal Ministry of Health]) to provide holistic and evidence-based care for COVID-19 patients. Using the MH Corona Explorer, a deeper understanding of the disease will be generated, linking the molecular basis to the clinical course of the disease. The goal is to enable innovative approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 patients and thus improve patient care.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The COVID-19 pandemic has crippled the world since 2020, with more than 190 million infections and more than 4 million deaths now reported. However, the state of knowledge about the disease is still insufficient, especially in terms of understanding COVID-19 disease at the molecular level in relation to a wide variety of clinical manifestations and symptoms. However, this understanding is critical to optimize diagnosis and treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo close this gap, we at Molecular Health have developed an enhanced COVID-19 disease model (\u201cMH Corona Explorer\u201d) based on our curated knowledge base (\u201cDATAOME\u201d) that links and represents the different symptoms of the disease with their molecular pathways. We are delighted to be able to implement this innovative collaborative project together with the experts and clinical expertise of Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Essen,\u201d said Dr. Anna Laib, Head of Medical Affairs and project leader of the Molecular Health collaboration at the kick-off meeting on August 3, 2021 at Uniklinikum Essen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MH Corona Explorer\u2019s in-silico approach as a browser-based application draws on biomedical knowledge published worldwide within the Molecular Health database. Using this digital model, the various clinical molecular features of COVID-19 are identified. This approach explains the long-term course of the disease, in addition to the variety of symptoms, while generating guidance for new treatment approaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To systematically advance the decoding of the disease, clinical data from up to 2,000 COVID-19 patients treated at the Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Essen will be analyzed and linked to the digital model to identify new drug targets and biomarkers. Findings from the collaborative project, which is scheduled to run for approximately one year, may also provide defined predictors of progression to severe disease or even long-term disease due to COVID-19 (\u201clong Covid\u201d). \u201cThis is not just about funding research, but about funding the future of medicine \u2013 with this perspective, the joint project between the Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Essen and Molecular Health offers an investment in the further development of healthcare,\u201d commented Nick Schneider, Head of Division at the Bundesministerium f\u00fcr Gesundheit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The relevance of the project is underlined by PD Dr. Adalbert Krawczyk, laboratory manager of infectiology and project manager on the part of the Universit\u00e4tsmedizin Essen: \u201cNot only do we have an extensive clinical dataset of COVID-19 patients, but we also have a large biospecimen set to control for potential biomarkers \u2013 we would like to capture these for early and reliable risk assessment of COVID-19 sufferers to use predictively or prognostically.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof. Dr. med. Oliver Witzke, Director of the Klinik f\u00fcr Infektiologie [Clinic for Infectious Diseases] and the Westdeutsches Zentrum f\u00fcr Infektiologie [West German Center for Infectious Diseases] and project leader on the part of the Universit\u00e4tsklinikums Essen, looks forward to the joint project with excitement: \u201cThrough this collaboration, our clinical knowledge from the field, along with Molecular Health\u2019s in-depth COVID-19 disease model, can be made directly useful to physicians in patient care. In the future, we hope to be able to keep our finger on the pulse of the pandemic by networking information on new virus variants and correspondingly changing courses of disease: Emerging adaptable treatment strategies could serve as a key component of care, contributing to the management of this pandemic.\u201d Initial results of the model project will be presented at a workshop this coming November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a three-part collaboration with the German Federal Ministry of Health, Molecular Health uses MH Corona Explorer to reveal the molecular basis of COVID-19 disease course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,50,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-pharma-solutions","category-press-release","category-23"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/molecularhealth.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/molecularhealth.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/molecularhealth.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molecularhealth.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molecularhealth.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/molecularhealth.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/molecularhealth.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/molecularhealth.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molecularhealth.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molecularhealth.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}