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• Project title: The long-term health consequences of traumatic brain injury. Is the TBI a chronic disease risk factor?
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: Medical University of Gdansk
• Country: Poland (PL)

Research area

• NSF calls:
  • EAGER
  • International Supplements
• Keywords:

  Traumatic brain injury chronic disease

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  Our team specialized in neuroscience and laboratory medicine. Our projects scopes the pathomechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases, such us traumatic brain injury, ion inbalance and hypoxia on the nervous system. We are also participate in the clinical diagnostic processes. Our team includes neurobiologists, biochemists, medical professionals, and laboratory diagnosticians. We hope to collaborate for the purpose of project implementation.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  The project aims to develop an effective tool for predicting the long-term consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI). This application is primarily dedicated to countries rebuilding their economy after armed conflicts. One of the challenges in such reconstruction is to determine the proper / most needed development directions of the national healthcare system. System with will focus a particular healthcare branches that will play a crucial role in society over time. Basic studies as well as retrospective cohort projects indicate a link between traumatic brain injury and chronic diseases. It has been shown that certain diseases statistically more frequently occur in TBI patients within 10-20 years after the injury. Among the most common diseases are Alzheimer\'s disease and autoimmune diseases. The precise mechanisms connecting these pathologies remains unknown. Still, in clinical practice, more important than pathomechanisms is to assess the risk of particular disease development. Such knowledge will give a chance to prepare the future healthcare system, which will meet the future patient’s needs. While patients knowing the potential future health issue have a chance to setup a health prevention, which may delay or even dismiss the onset of predicted disease. Given the similarity in phenotypic and genotypic aspects of the Polish population and the Ukraine population (as Ukraine is engaged in the armed conflict and will need such AI tool), we want to conduct a retrospective analysis among our patients with a 10-20 year history of TBI incidents. The data obtained will serve as the basis for the development of AI. Thus we are looking for teams to collaborate on the following aspects: • Providing the AI tool capable of fulfilling the project\'s objectives (countries: USA, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania). • Patient databases from Eastern Bloc countries to diversify the research data and increase the efficiency and accuracy in assessing the future health risk of war veterans using AI (countries: Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania).

Marlena Zyśk

• Organisation: Medical University of Gdansk
• Position: Ass. Prof.
• E-mail: marlena.zysk@gumed.edu.pl
• Web: www.gumed.edu.pl