PEPR TREASURE

The project at a glance

Seven complementary work packages, from data infrastructures to ethics and education.

WP1 Multi-organ data lake & deeply phenotyped cohorts
  • Electronic health records
  • Registries & data warehouses
  • Biology & immunology platforms (EFS, CRB, HLA labs)
  • Biocollection
  • Tissue collections
  • Cloud storage & computing capacity
  • Medical-fees data integration
WP2 & 3 Preservation, tissue engineering & augmented transplants
  • Augmented organ perfusion
  • Long-duration normothermic perfusion & innovative evaluation
  • Clinically augmented grafts (pancreatic islets, trachea)
WP4 Non-invasive & tissue biomarkers
  • Immune monitoring: DNA, RNA, metabolites, proteins, cells, antibodies
  • Allograft tissue-based diagnostics
  • Avoiding futile biopsies
  • Pathogenesis-based diagnostics
  • Therapeutic target discovery
  • Mechanistically informed therapeutics
WP5 AI-based diagnosis & prognosis
  • Risk stratification
  • Automated rejection diagnostics
  • Therapy adaptation (minimisation, intensification)
  • Response to therapy
WP6 The first AI transplant clinic

Augmented organs

  • Increasing the pool of donor organs
  • Enhancing the reconditioning of transplantable organs
  • Advanced systems to assess viability and function

Augmented physicians

  • Non-invasive biomarker prediction
  • Digital & molecular microscope
  • Automated diagnostics
  • Patient prognostication (graft loss, death, infection, cancer, CV events)

AI patient copilot

  • Remote monitoring
  • LLM-based chatbot
  • Patient-centred care
  • Connected devices (IoT)

Augmented clinical trials

  • Virtualised clinical trials
  • Digital surrogate endpoints
  • AI-based drug discovery & repurposing
  • Digital twins
WP7 Ethics, dissemination & education
  • Integration of ethical & regulatory dimensions
  • Financial barriers & value-based healthcare
  • Training future transplant specialists
  • Public awareness campaigns & practical workshops
  • Enhanced communication with patient/donor associations
  • Assessing the ecological footprint of transplantation