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Disease modeling through the Extracellular Matrix (ECM)

What is PathECM?

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Partnering Institutions in a consortium aimed at using physics to develop the drug discovery models of tomorrow.

Independent disease models, starting wth our endometriosis model, EndoECM

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Drugs in the pipeline as a result of PathECM

Patients participating in the study to help us better define ground truth.

PathECM is a project aimed at elucidating the important components of tissue driven disease, incorporating them into 3D human tissue models and creating next generation therapeutics that treat root causes.

Our Team

Get to know us

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Prof Kristian Franze 

Project Lead, FAU Erlangen

kristian.franze@fau.de

Prof Ewa Paluch

University of Cambridge

Dr Joe Swift 

University of Manchester

Dr Alex Eckersley 

University of Manchester

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Prof Andela Šarić

IST Austria

Dr. Vianney Delplace

Nantes University

Dr. Léa Wenger

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Prof. Kevin Chalut

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Dr. Stéphane Petres

Institut Pasteur

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