Schizophrenia Diagnosis Just Got an $8M Upgrade
Published by www.timesofisrael.com on December 11, 2024.
An international consortium focused on early diagnosis of schizophrenia, headed by Prof. Hossam Haick of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, has received a €8 million ($8.4 million) European Union grant, the Technion announces.
The project, labeled VOLABIOS, “aims to develop advanced, cost-effective diagnostic tools that improve patient quality of life, reduce diagnostic errors by 30%, and optimize treatment and monitoring processes,” the press release says.
The initiative involves cooperation between 20 research partners from 11 countries around Europe, including Aachen University in Germany, the University of Cambridge in the UK, the Greek Ministry of Health and the French company FIRALIS, the notice says.
Project leader Haick, an Arab-Israeli academic, scientist and engineer from Nazareth, studied at Ben-Gurion University, the Technion, the Weizmann Institute of Science and Caltech. At the Technion, he is the dean of Undergraduate Studies and a faculty member of the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering.
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