CING secures \u20ac500,000 for cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics system<\/p>\n
The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) has acquired an advanced spatial transcriptomics platform <\/strong>for biological tissue analysis, according to an announcement released this week.<\/p>\n The institute said that this represents \u201ca major step forward in the field of precision medicine<\/strong>\u201d for Cyprus, adding that \u201cthis development marks a decisive advancement\u201d for its research community.<\/p>\n Specifically, the Department of Cancer Genetics, Therapeutics and Ultrastructural Pathology at CING has secured \u20ac500,000 in funding <\/strong>from the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF).<\/p>\n The grant will finance the acquisition of a pioneering spatial transcriptomics analysis platform that enables the study of gene expression within the natural context of tissue.<\/p>\n \u201cThis cutting-edge technology places Cyprus at the forefront of international scientific progress<\/strong>,\u201d the institute said.<\/p>\n The project, titled OPEN INFRA\/0625\/0079, is being implemented under Cyprus\u2019 Recovery and Resilience Plan \u201cCyprus Tomorrow\u201d with funding from the European Union\u2019s Next Generation EU, through the Research and Innovation Foundation.<\/p>\n The new platform enables comprehensive spatial analysis of the transcriptome within the natural framework of biological tissue.<\/p>\n It also allows the simultaneous detection of thousands of genes in each tissue section<\/strong>. In addition, it provides co-detection of proteins, paving the way for advanced multimodal studies.<\/p>\n \u201cThe installation of this system marks a critical step forward for research in Cyprus<\/strong>, empowering the field of cancer genetics and strengthening the development of precision medicine,\u201d the institute explained.<\/p>\n \u201cWe express our warmest thanks to the Research and Innovation Foundation for its invaluable support,\u201d said Dr Fotios Bekris, project coordinator and Director of the Department. <\/p>\n \u201cThe successful proposal is the result of collaboration with our colleagues and represents an investment in the future of biomedical research in Cyprus<\/strong>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n This achievement is the result of close scientific cooperation between Dr Bekris and his colleagues Dr Andreas Chatzisavvas, Dr Sotiris Kyriakou and Dr Aikaterini Cheimona, along with Dr George M. Spyrou, Director of the Department of Bioinformatics, and Dr Kyriaki Michaelidou, Head of the Biostatistics Unit.<\/p>\n \u201cThe new platform is not only a technological upgrade but also a strategic investment in knowledge and innovation<\/strong>,\u201d CING stated.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is expected to deliver immediate benefits to patients by offering more targeted and personalised treatments <\/strong>while opening new avenues for discoveries in cancer prevention, diagnosis and therapy,\u201d the institute concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CING secures \u20ac500,000 for cutting-edge spatial transcriptomics system The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics (CING) has acquired…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3846],"tags":[267,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-523990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-genetics","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}