The goal of the project is to generate NAFLD zebrafish models – dietary and genetic – to allow the identification of new biomarkers of the disease and therapeutic targets
Start – End dates: 01/01/2022 -31/12/2025
Project reference: Doctorados Industriales 2020 (DIN2020-011328)
Total budget: 110,429.52€
Financed by: State Research Agency under the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain and the European Union (Next Generation EU)
Financed by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and European Union-NextGenerationEU/PRTR.
Partners: Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Summary:
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) affects nowadays about 25% of the population worldwide, but there is still no treatment in the market. The main goal of the industrial PhD project is to generate NAFLD zebrafish models – dietary and genetic – to allow the identification of new biomarkers of the disease and therapeutic targets in which to perform a pharmacological screening.