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URL:https://bioscience.fi/events/innovator-grant-john-eriksson/
SUMMARY:Distinguished Innovator Grant from Novo Nordisk to the research tea
 m of John Eriksson
DESCRIPTION:Professor John Eriksson and his research team have received the
  prestigious Distinguished Innovator grant of 6 million DKK (approximately
  800 000 euro) from Novo Nordisk to support their project titled\, "Preven
 tion of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases: An Innovative Bioactive Repellen
 t Embracing Circular Economy Principles."\n\nThis new project is a continu
 ation of the successful HPV Horizon project (https://hpvhorizon.com/) and 
 the long-term basic research that have been built especially through the c
 ontributions of team members Preethy Paul and Senthil Kumar\, both integra
 l to the team for over a decade. The HPV Horizon project aimed at specific
  targeting of the HPV E6 and E7 oncogenes is based on a pharmacologic dite
 rpenoid compound family from the natural plant Anisomeles malabarica\, lea
 ding also to the start-up company Anison Therapeutics (https://anisonthera
 peutics.com/).\n\nIn the Novo Nordisk project\, the collective and accumul
 ated know-how in the team has been key when developing innovative bioactiv
 e repellents from the same Anisomeles plant\, efficiently targeting diseas
 e vectors such as ticks and mosquitoes. The long-term basic research in th
 e team has been instrumental when developing a set of naturally occurring\
 , harmless and biodegradable compounds to combat vector-borne infectious d
 iseases\, such as Lyme disease\, tick-borne encephalitis\, Zika fever\, ma
 laria\, yellow fever\, and dengue fever.\n\nOverall\, vector-based disease
 s pose significant risks to global health and there is an acute need for e
 fficient and ecologically safe repellants and inhibitors. While the employ
 ed nature-derived compounds are completely harmless and biologically decom
 posable\, they can be safely used even in wide distribution.\n\nThe projec
 t also incorporates circular economy principles\, as the repellent compoun
 d mixture is produced using the collected bio-waste from the medicinal pla
 nt after the HPV-targeting compounds have been extracted.
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