DIAMONDS is an EU Horizon2020 project

Personalised Risk assessment in febrile illness to Optimise Real-life Management across the European Union (PERFORM) was an €18 million project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 668303 that ran from 2016 to 2021 and included 18 partner institutions across 10 countries.

The team built on their previous research from the EUCLIDS project showing that bacterial illnesses can be identified by particular patterns of genes and proteins with the aim of developing a rapid test for medical practitioners to quickly distinguish bacterial from viral infections in children.

Over the course of the project, the team put on webinars and events to engage the public and other stakeholders in PERFORM’s research. Detailed information on the deliverables and publications produced as part of the PERFORM project can be found on the project’s CORDIS page.

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ENGAGING PEOPLE WITH THE PERFORM PROJECT

Personalised Risk assessment in febrile illness to Optimise Real-life Management across the European Union (PERFORM) was the predecessor project to DIAMONDS that ran from 2016 to 2021 and included 18 partner institutions across 10 countries.

Over the course of the project, the team put on webinars and events to engage the public and other stakeholders in PERFORM’s research. Learn more about these below.

PERFORMing Live! Turning personalised management of children with fever into a reality.

The final stakeholder engagement event presented by the PERFORM consortium before its closure in June, 2021.

Researchers, paediatricians and clinicians shared the major results of PERFORM which from 2016-2021, aimed to develop easy to use, personalised tests to distinguish between bacterial and viral infections in febrile children. Chaired by Chief Investigator, Prof. Mike Levin from Imperial College London, the full agenda in PDF is available to download.

Webinar: Novel approaches to distinguishing bacterial from viral infections: lessons learnt from PERFORM and next steps in DIAMONDS.

Originally held live on 18th November 2020, the PERFORM consortium in collaboration with their sister Horizon2020 project, DIAMONDS, held a stakeholder engagement webinar.

The speakers, including Prof Mike Levin, chief investigator of both international research projects, presented the main results of PERFORM and the next steps in DIAMONDS.

Paediatric Infectious Diseases Team of Imperial College London @ Great Exhibition Road Festival 2019

The Malaria Zone was one of the highlights of the 2019 Great Exhibition Road Festival at Imperial College London (UK). The Paediatric Infectious Diseases Team along with colleagues at Electrical and Electronic Engineering took festival-goers on a journey through sub-sahara Africa learning about malaria and the latest tech in diagnostic tools that largely form the research in PERFORM2020.

Check out the video to dive into The Zone.

PERFORM @ European Researchers’ Night 2019

The European Researchers’ Night was an energetic festival of scientific exploration at the Natural History Museum in London (UK). PERFORM together with three other Horizon 2020 projects, EAVI2020, EDEN2020, and PRESTIGE-AF showcased their research in pop-up science stations.

This video summarises the highlights from the night.

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