Regenerative Precision Medicine for Chronic Inflammation
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The significance of stage-specific, personalized diagnosis and treatment
Regenerative Precision Medicine for Chronic Inflammation
A new approach: Chronic inflammation and fibrosis in the aging lung
The future of medicine is individual.
The term presently coined for this is Personalized or Precision Medicine.
Precision medicine is defined by the simultaneous identification (diagnosis) and targeted elimination (treatment) of metabolic defects causing and driving a particular disease at a decisive stage of its manifestation. It relies on clinically validated biomarkers.
In future, biomarkers will directly link diagnosis to treatment (beyond all present clinical, pathological, imaging or laboratory procedures):
- in accordance with the precise stage of metabolic disease development at the time of recording, and
- with an accordingly targeted therapy (based on detailed assessment of the relevant abnormalities in both organ structure and function).
Why so?
Because this combination of biomarker-based diagnosis and the corresponding marker-based treatment permits:
- an unprecedented increase of effectiveness of any given therapy, while, at the same time, resulting in
- a significant reduction of both number andseverity of undesired side effects of treatment.
Presently, we are still at the dawn of Precision Medicine.
Primary advances made in the field of tumor disease plainly demonstrate the enormous advantages of Precision Medicine.
However, Precision Medicine applies not only to tumor disease currently accounting for 30 percent of all diseases in people over 50 years of age.
It applies as well to the group of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases representing the majority of diseases in aging populations (accounting for up to 70 percent after the age of 50), and there, Precision Medicine is badly needed.
The lessons from our pilot study:
Maintenance of matrix structures and its significance for healthy aging.
Surface and matrix structures create borders within the body and its organs. These borders separate reaction spaces, called the compartments of the body. Intact surface and matrix structures control and guarantee regular organ function by separating potentially hazardous biochemical and biophysical reactions running continually within these compartments.
The body’s surface and matrix structures are many and wide. The more expanded and the more mobile these structures are (for example, to gaseous atmospheres in and around the body or to fluids, like the blood-stream), the more profound the effects of their dissolution.
This process is termed loss of surface integrity. Why is it dangerous?
Because hazardous biochemical and biophysical reactions will run uncontrolled and in the wrong places causing reactive inflammation and need of repair. Once such a loss of surface integrity becomes permanent, both inflammation and need for repair (or in other word:wound healing) will become permanent and progressively intense affecting regular organ function, as organ function relies on the same structures.
Thus, maintenance of matrix structures ensures functional reaction spaces, prevents inflammation, and preserves proper function of organs, i.e. health. This maintenance process is called regenerative repair or primary wound healing. Because of its importance, the body will uphold it over decades, and with considerable effort.
Regenerative repair will only become slow and ineffective, when the metabolic processes necessary to maintain it become ineffective. This is exactly what happens with age.
This explains the danger posed by the combination of persisting loss of surface integrity and progressively declining regenerative repair. Due to this combination, medicine witnesses a steady increase in number and severity of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases in aging societies affecting various organs, such as lung, vascular system, bowels, joints and skin.
The lungs have a surface are a equivalent to a tennis court. With each breath (and just at rest, we breathe roughly 16 times per minute), this huge surface is pulled wide by muscle force and then contracted again only by the elastic structure of the lung.
The biophysical forces put on this lung structure during breathing are considerable. Therefore, the loss of surface (matrix) integrity in structurally and functionally critical lung compartments, such as the small bronchi (the air-conducting space) and the alveoli (the gas-exchanging space) has tremendous effects, inflammation being just its first result.
Not surprisingly, acute pneumonia(pulmonary inflammation) is the most common cause of death in aging individuals - regardless of what other disorder is simultaneously occurring in the body.
Chronic pulmonary inflammation is equally disastrous, but much less apparent, as the body’s regenerative repair capacity (shrinking with age) masks its effects on structure and function. As a result, the critical outcome of chronic inflammation are usually difficult to diagnose before the age of 50. This is unfortunate, because the combined pathology of structural disintegration will become progressive at that stage, as the body has no primary repair capacity anymore to withstand. The result is both renewed inflammation and a different repair quality called secondary repair (i.e. scarring = fibrosis).
While medical and pharmaceutical development has centered on inflammatory processes for many decades, persistent loss of structural integrity combined with a growing inability to sustain regenerative wound healing have only recently gained attention.
Transgenion’s new knowledge concerns the very basis of Precision. Accordingly, our identification process has centered on prospective clinical studies identifying stage-specific biomarkers during the entire course of disease development, e.g. in COPD covering up to 30 years.
Fortunately, this has been possible, as each stage of disease comprises critical periods characterized by clinically well-characterized structural and functional features allowing the correct association with the key biomarkers linking structural failure to inflammation, fibrosis and loss of function.
Not very surprisingly, many of the clinically validated key markers originate from processes controlling and enabling repair.
Status Quo: Decades of incomplete medical and biomolecular targeting
Transgenion’s strategy has overcome this dilemma by a successful combination of medical and biomolecular research (twenty years, twenty million Euros in public, not refundable funds) creating a groundbreaking set of clinically validated biomarkers ready to serve as targets for precision medicine in Chronic Inflammatory Diseases and Progressive Fibrosis.
In particular, this concerns two major diseases specific for advanced age:
The significance of stage-specific, personalized diagnosis and treatment
Regenerative Precision Medicine for Chronic Inflammation
A new approach: Chronic inflammation and fibrosis in the aging lung
The future of medicine is individual.
The term presently coined for this is Personalized or Precision Medicine.
Precision medicine is defined by the simultaneous identification (diagnosis) and targeted elimination (treatment) of metabolic defects causing and driving a particular disease at a decisive stage of its manifestation. It relies on clinically validated biomarkers.
In future, biomarkers will directly link diagnosis to treatment (beyond all present clinical, pathological, imaging or laboratory procedures):
- in accordance with the precise stage of metabolic disease development at the time of recording, and
- with an accordingly targeted therapy (based on detailed assessment of the relevant abnormalities in both organ structure and function).
Why so?
Because this combination of biomarker-based diagnosis and the corresponding marker-based treatment permits:
- an unprecedented increase of effectiveness of any given therapy, while, at the same time, resulting in
- a significant reduction of both number andseverity of undesired side effects of treatment.
Presently, we are still at the dawn of Precision Medicine.
Primary advances made in the field of tumor disease plainly demonstrate the enormous advantages of Precision Medicine.
However, Precision Medicine applies not only to tumor disease currently accounting for 30 percent of all diseases in people over 50 years of age.
It applies as well to the group of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases representing the majority of diseases in aging populations (accounting for up to 70 percent after the age of 50), and there, Precision Medicine is badly needed.
Maintenance of matrix structures: Significance for healthy aging
Surface and matrix structures create borders within the body and its organs. These borders separate reaction spaces, called the compartments of the body. Intact surface and matrix structures control and guarantee regular organ function by separating potentially hazardous biochemical and biophysical reactions running continually within these compartments.
The body’s membrane structures are many and wide. The more expanded and the more mobile these structures are (for example, to gaseous atmospheres in and around the body or to fluids, like the blood-stream), the more profound the effects of their dissolution.
This process is termed loss of surface integrity. Why is it dangerous?
Because hazardous biochemical and biophysical reactions will run uncontrolled and in the wrong places causing reactive inflammation and need of repair. Once such a loss of surface integrity becomes permanent, both inflammation and need for repair (or in other word:wound healing) will become permanent and progressively intense affecting regular organ function, as organ function relies on the same structures.
Thus, maintenance of matrix structures ensures functional reaction spaces, prevents inflammation, and preserves proper function of organs, i.e. health. This maintenance process is called regenerative repair or primary wound healing. Because of its importance, the body will uphold it over decades, and with considerable effort.
Regenerative repair will only become slow and ineffective, when the metabolic processes necessary to maintain it become ineffective. This is exactly what happens with age.
This explains the danger posed by the combination of persisting loss of surface integrity and progressively declining regenerative repair. Due to this combination, medicine witnesses a steady increase in number and severity of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases in aging societies affecting various organs, such as lung, vascular system, bowels, joints and skin.
The lungs have a surface equivalent to a tennis court. With each breath (and just at rest, we breathe roughly 16 times per minute), this huge surface is pulled wide by muscle force and then contracted again only by the elastic structure of the lung.
The biophysical forces put on this lung structure during breathing are considerable. Therefore, the loss of surface (matrix) integrity in structurally and functionally critical lung compartments, such as the small bronchi (the air-conducting space) and the alveoli (the gas-exchanging space) has tremendous effects, inflammation being just its first result.
Not surprisingly, acute pneumonia (pulmonary inflammation) is the most common cause of death in aging individuals - regardless of what other disorder is simultaneously occurring in the body.
Chronic pulmonary inflammation is equally disastrous, but much less apparent, as the body’s regenerative repair capacity (shrinking with age) masks its effects on structure and function. As a result, the critical outcomes of chronic inflammation are usually difficult to diagnose before the age of 50. This is unfortunate, because the combined pathologies of structural disintegration and fibrotic repair will become progressive at that stage, as the body has no primary repair capacity anymore to withstand. The result is both renewed inflammation and a different repair quality called secondary repair (i.e. scarring = fibrosis).
While medical and pharmaceutical development has centered on inflammatory processes for many decades, persistent loss of structural integrity combined with a growing inability to sustain regenerative wound healing have only recently gained attention.
Transgenion’s new knowledge concerns the very basis of Precision Medicine. Our identification process has centered on prospective clinical studies identifying stage-specific biomarkers during the entire course of disease development, e.g. in COPD covering up to 30 years.
This was possible because each disease stage comprises significant validation phases characterized by clinically well-defined structural and functional features that allow correct mapping to key biomarkers linking structural failure to inflammation, fibrosis and loss of function.
Not very surprisingly, many of the clinically validated key markers originate from processes controlling and enabling repair.
Opportunity for the advancement of all CID treatments
Starting with the CORE Programs, Transgenion is realizing the first useful diagnosis and causal treatment for all CIDs. Initial successes have been observed in research for tumor diseases, which make up to 30% of all diseases onwards the age of 50. The group of CIDs is still urgently awaiting a successful combination of personalized diagnosis and therapy, and that's exactly where Transgenion comes into play!
The completion of CORE-1 marks the equivalent pharmaceutical development value at € 450 Mio.
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Complete analysis for all clinically relevant markers in lung tissue based on 3-year observation per subject, representing COPD progression over more than 30 years.
The significance of stage-specific, personalized diagnosis and treatment
Regenerative Precision Medicine for Chronic Inflammation
A new approach: Chronic inflammation and fibrosis in the aging lung
The future of medicine is individual.
The term presently coined for this is Personalized or Precision Medicine.
Precision medicine is defined by the simultaneous identification (diagnosis) and targeted elimination (treatment) of metabolic defects causing and driving a particular disease at a decisive stage of its manifestation. It relies on clinically validated biomarkers.
In future, biomarkers will directly link diagnosis to treatment (beyond all present clinical, pathological, imaging or laboratory procedures):
- in accordance with the precise stage of metabolic disease development at the time of recording, and
- with an accordingly targeted therapy (based on detailed assessment of the relevant abnormalities in both organ structure and function).
Why so?
Because this combination of biomarker-based diagnosis and the corresponding marker-based treatment permits:
- an unprecedented increase of effectiveness of any given therapy, while, at the same time, resulting in
- a significant reduction of both number andseverity of undesired side effects of treatment.
Presently, we are still at the dawn of Precision Medicine.
Primary advances made in the field of tumor disease plainly demonstrate the enormous advantages of Precision Medicine.
However, Precision Medicine applies not only to tumor disease currently accounting for 30 percent of all diseases in people over 50 years of age.
It applies as well to the group of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases representing the majority of diseases in aging populations (accounting for up to 70 percent after the age of 50), and there, Precision Medicine is badly needed.
The lessons from our pilot study:
Maintenance of matrix structures and its significance for healthy aging.
Surface and matrix structures create borders within the body and its organs. These borders separate reaction spaces, called the compartments of the body. Intact surface and matrix structures control and guarantee regular organ function by separating potentially hazardous biochemical and biophysical reactions running continually within these compartments.
The body’s surface and matrix structures are many and wide. The more expanded and the more mobile these structures are (for example, to gaseous atmospheres in and around the body or to fluids, like the blood-stream), the more profound the effects of their dissolution.
This process is termed loss of surface integrity. Why is it dangerous?
Because hazardous biochemical and biophysical reactions will run uncontrolled and in the wrong places causing reactive inflammation and need of repair. Once such a loss of surface integrity becomes permanent, both inflammation and need for repair (or in other word:wound healing) will become permanent and progressively intense affecting regular organ function, as organ function relies on the same structures.
Thus, maintenance of matrix structures ensures functional reaction spaces, prevents inflammation, and preserves proper function of organs, i.e. health. This maintenance process is called regenerative repair or primary wound healing. Because of its importance, the body will uphold it over decades, and with considerable effort.
Regenerative repair will only become slow and ineffective, when the metabolic processes necessary to maintain it become ineffective. This is exactly what happens with age.
This explains the danger posed by the combination of persisting loss of surface integrity and progressively declining regenerative repair. Due to this combination, medicine witnesses a steady increase in number and severity of Chronic Inflammatory Diseases in aging societies affecting various organs, such as lung, vascular system, bowels, joints and skin.
The lungs have a surface are a equivalent to a tennis court. With each breath (and just at rest, we breathe roughly 16 times per minute), this huge surface is pulled wide by muscle force and then contracted again only by the elastic structure of the lung.
The biophysical forces put on this lung structure during breathing are considerable. Therefore, the loss of surface (matrix) integrity in structurally and functionally critical lung compartments, such as the small bronchi (the air-conducting space) and the alveoli (the gas-exchanging space) has tremendous effects, inflammation being just its first result.
Not surprisingly, acute pneumonia(pulmonary inflammation) is the most common cause of death in aging individuals - regardless of what other disorder is simultaneously occurring in the body.
Chronic pulmonary inflammation is equally disastrous, but much less apparent, as the body’s regenerative repair capacity (shrinking with age) masks its effects on structure and function. As a result, the critical outcome of chronic inflammation are usually difficult to diagnose before the age of 50. This is unfortunate, because the combined pathology of structural disintegration will become progressive at that stage, as the body has no primary repair capacity anymore to withstand. The result is both renewed inflammation and a different repair quality called secondary repair (i.e. scarring = fibrosis).
While medical and pharmaceutical development has centered on inflammatory processes for many decades, persistent loss of structural integrity combined with a growing inability to sustain regenerative wound healing have only recently gained attention.
Transgenion’s new knowledge concerns the very basis of Precision. Accordingly, our identification process has centered on prospective clinical studies identifying stage-specific biomarkers during the entire course of disease development, e.g. in COPD covering up to 30 years.
Fortunately, this has been possible, as each stage of disease comprises critical periods characterized by clinically well-characterized structural and functional features allowing the correct association with the key biomarkers linking structural failure to inflammation, fibrosis and loss of function.
Not very surprisingly, many of the clinically validated key markers originate from processes controlling and enabling repair.
First-time sequential recording of all relevant markers throughout the entire COPD course (from the risk stage to end-stage).
Unique dataset fully patented (25 patents across US, Europe and Japan).
In summary, this results in a market lead of at least 10 years.
Frequently Asked Questions
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diesase (COPD) is a common lung disease causing obstructed airflow, breathing problems and exhaustion due to chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
The most common symptoms of COPD are difficulty of breathing, chronic cough and feeling tired. COPD symptoms can get worse quickly. These are called flare-ups or exacerbations and last usually for a few days requiring additional medicine.
People with COPD have a higher risk for other health problems, such as lung infections, lung cancer, heart problems, depression etc.
Unfortunately not! It can be treated with medicines, oxygen and pulmonary rehabilitation.
A biomarker is a measurable substance or characteristic in the body that can indicate the presence or progression of a disease or condition. It can be a molecule, gene, protein, or another measurable feature that can be detected in blood, urine, tissue, or other bodily fluids.
Biomarkers are used in medical research and clinical practice to diagnose diseases, monitor treatment effectiveness, and predict patient outcomes.
A predictive diagnosis refers to the use of biomarkers or other indications to predict the development or progression of the disease. This can help identify individuals who are at a higher risk of developing COPD or those who may experience a more severe form of the disease.
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