{"id":133,"date":"2026-09-22T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/?p=133"},"modified":"2026-11-11T17:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:13:14","slug":"bimini-biotechs-mit-feasibility-grant-auto-wasp-awarded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"BIMINI Biotech\u2019s MIT Feasibility grant AUTO-WASP awarded"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BIMINI Biotech has received a \u20ac20,000 MIT feasibility grant for the AUTO-WASP project, supporting an assessment of WASp modulation as a potential therapeutic approach in autoimmune disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mkb-innovatiestimulering Regio en Topsectoren programme supports innovation projects by small and medium-sized companies and enables companies to assess the technical and economic feasibility of proposed innovations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Extending the WASp platform into autoimmune disease<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASp) plays an important role in immune-cell signalling, migration, immune-synapse formation and cytokine release. Dysregulation of WASp function has also been associated with autoimmune conditions including colitis and arthritis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building on these observations, BIMINI identified autoimmune disease as a potential extension of its WASp modulation platform. AUTO-WASP will investigate the technical and economic feasibility of applying the approach in two autoimmune indications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The feasibility study provides an early step towards determining where WASp modulation could offer a differentiated therapeutic mechanism outside oncology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The AUTO-WASP project is supported by the Province of Zuid-Holland.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIMINI Biotech has received a \u20ac20,000 MIT feasibility grant for the AUTO-WASP project, supporting an assessment of WASp modulation as a potential therapeutic approach in autoimmune disease. The Mkb-innovatiestimulering Regio en Topsectoren programme supports innovation projects by small and medium-sized companies and enables companies to assess the technical and economic feasibility of proposed innovations. Extending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bimini.jppwebdesign.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}