Circular RNAs are a class of noncoding RNAs covalently closed by a back spicing event, making them protected from degradation by exonuclease. They are tissue- and disease-specific and are detectable in the blood. These properties confer circRNAs with valuable potential as disease biomarkers for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.
The Cardiovascular Research team of the Luxembourg Institute of Health leaded by Dr Yvan Devaux has discovered and patented hundreds of circRNAs detectable in the blood and associated with cardiovascular conditions such as heart failure. Heart failure affects more than half of the population over 65 and represents an enormous financial burden to the society. Circular RNAs can be measured in a highly specific manner using sequencing, methods based on probe hybridization, or quantitative PCR with divergent primers. They have potential to be used in diagnostics tests, companion diagnostics or, being involved in disease development and progression, as therapeutic targets.
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TECHNOLOGY AND IP STATUS
The methodology to measure circRNAs in blood samples of patients as well as their potential to constitute a new class of biomarkers and therapeutic targets have been extensively validated and published by the LIH inventors (PMID: 27609688;28345158; 29159270; 30159434; 31986093). The association between circRNAs and heart failure has been validated in two independent cohorts in Luxembourg and Germany totalizing more than 600 patients (PMID:27609688). In particular, one circRNA named MICRA (Myocardial Infarction-associated Circular RnA) improved risk classification after myocardial infarction, supporting the added value of this novel biomarker in future prognostication strategies (PMID 29159270). The use of circRNAs to predict cardiovascular conditions such as heart failure has been protected in two patents from LIH inventors (WO2017046203; WO2018220185).
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The activities of the Luxembourg Institute of Health are developed within the following research topics: cancer, immunological disordersm neuro-degenerative diseases and metabolic diseases.
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