L’INRiM partecipa al "Progetto PNC 0000001 D3 4 Health, CUP B83C22006120001, Piano nazionale per gli investimenti complementari al PNRR, finanziato dall’Unione europea – NextGenerationEU.
La Fondazione D3 4 HEALTH (Digital Driven Diagnostics, prognostics and therapeutics for sustainable Health care), omonima dell’iniziativa progettuale, ha lo scopo di svolgere attività strumentali e di supporto della didattica e della ricerca scientifica e tecnologica in ambito sanitario e assistenziale.
La Fondazione è costituita da 28 partner tra Università pubbliche e private, Istituti di ricerca e Imprese - svolge attività di potenziamento della ricerca sulle tecnologie digitali in ambito sanitario, attraverso un sofisticato processo di data mining, al fine di migliorare diagnosi, monitoraggio e cure per 5 grandi malattie: cancro metastatico del colon, cancro del fegato e delle vie biliari, cancro del sistema nervoso centrale, diabete di tipo I, sclerosi multipla.
La struttura organizzativa è di tipo Hub- Spoke. La Fondazione opera in qualità di soggetto attuatore e referente unico ("HUB") nei confronti del Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca, appositamente costituito per l'attuazione, il coordinamento e la gestione dell'"Iniziativa" finanziata con il Fondo Complementare.
INRiM is the proponent of the project BioSurfMetLab (Metrological laboratory for the fabrication, characterisation and biological validation of nanostructured surfaces for biomedical applications), approved within the D34Health program – Spoke 4 and funded by the PNRR Complementary Fund. The project is coordinated by Paola Tiberto.
The aim of the project is to create a multidisciplinary research infrastructure dedicated to the manufacture and metrological characterisation of micro- and nanostructured surfaces for the controlled growth of cell and bacterial cultures, preparatory to the creation of biocompatible surfaces for three-dimensional biological models. BioSurf-Met Lab will consist of a cell laboratory, a bacterial culture laboratory and a chemical laboratory. It will be supported by other existing laboratories on the INRiM campus and will complement the infrastructure already present in D34Health.
The main objectives include:
- High-tech multidisciplinary laboratories: establishment, for the first time in Piedmont, of facilities dedicated to nanomanufacturing and characterisation in the biomedical field, made available to the scientific community.
- Innovative nanostructuring techniques: complementing traditional methods (optical and electron lithography) with supramolecular self-assembly lithography, enabling large-area nanostructuring.
- Scientific collaboration and training: fostering synergy between researchers from universities, INRiM and the D34Health initiative, combining skills from physics to chemistry, biology and medicine, and supporting the training of young scientists.
- Valorisation of results: generating new competences, scientific outcomes and intellectual property from multidisciplinary interactions, with potential commercial impact.
These approaches aim to establish BioSurfMetLab as a reference infrastructure for research and innovation in the biomedical sector, strengthening the capacity of the national system to bridge science and applications in an interdisciplinary context.