Background
Cardiovascular diseases account for more than 30% of deaths globally. The field is in urgent need for new patient-friendly therapies - more efficient and heart-specific.
Our Goal
Cupido aims to hit the core of the cardiovascular disease, developing inhalable nanoparticles that can deliver a therapy directly to the diseased heart.
Consortium
CUPIDO multidisciplinary consortium gathers a heterogeneous array of expertise and pulls together cutting-edge research with pre-clinical experience and industrial manufacturing. The 12 CUPIDO partners can cover the complete chain that brings an idea into a feasible product.
THE BREATHING HEART
The route of nanoparticles:
1. Nanoparticle production
Biocompatible and biodegradable nanoparticles can self-assemble and encapsulate drugs
2. Inhalation
Nanoparticles are transformed into an inhalable coarser dry powder that can reach the airways.
3. Crossing the pulmonary barrier
Nanoparticles can cross the alveolar-capillary barrier, rapidly reaching the heart
4. One target: the heart
The heart specificity is ensured thanks to chemical and magnetic guidance
THE CONSORTIUM
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Research groups
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SMEs
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Pharma Company
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Industries
A multidisciplinary team
CUPIDO multidisciplinary consortium gathers a heterogeneous array of expertise and pulls together cutting-edge research with pre-clinical experience and industrial manufacturing. Indeed the 12 CUPIDO partners can cover the complete chain that brings an idea into a feasible product and cover expertise in:
- cardiovascular and nanotechnology research
- bioengineering and molecular imaging
- pulmonology and lung cell biology
- in silico computational models
- wearable electronics
- drug delivery solutions
- pharmaceutical products.
NEWS
Our coordinator got the MCAA Best Innovator Award 2019
November 8, 2020
During the last Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA)Conference (6-7 November 2020), it was announced that our project coordinator Daniele Catalucci and a Marie Curie Alumni, got the MCA... 
Joint workshop with sister EU-funded projects
October 31, 2020
Just as CUPIDO is developing inhalable nanoparticles to deliver a drug to the heart, several other European projects — using very different compounds to treat very different ailments — have 
Heart-shaped particles…for the heart!
October 28, 2020
A picture of our nanoparticles has been selected for NanoArtography2020! The author of the picture is Lorenzo Degli Esposti from the CNR-ISTEC. One day, while at the microscope he spotted a 
