Project

Exploring immunological pathways, comorbidities and aging in chronic infectious diseases and auto-inflammatory disorders.

Code
bof/baf/4y/2024/01/343
Duration
01 January 2024 → 31 December 2025
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Inflammation
    • Infectious diseases
Keywords
aging Chronic inflammation comorbidities
 
Project description

HIV has become a chronic infection without disease progression under lifelong tretament with antiretroviral therapies. 

However, people living with HIV do experience more comorbidities at a younger age and increased aging. This seems to be mostly related to immunological alterations related to activation and exhaustion. 

Similar observations can be made for other chronic infectious diseases, such as EBV and CMV and/or chronic inflammatory-non infectious conditions eg IBD. 

By combining advanced clinical care (PRO questionnaire, follow-up and multidisciplinary care paths), with multiplex protein analysis, immunophenotyping and pathway discovery we aim to contribute in knowledge regarding biological processes that are shared between these conditions but also differentiate them from eachother, in order to identify pathophysiological targets and outcome predictors with the overall aim to increase QoL and treatment in people with chronic immune-mediated conditions.