COVID-19 through Adverse Outcome Pathways: Building Networks to Better Understand the Disease - 3rd CIAO AOP Design Workshop

Laure Alix Clerbaux, Núria Amigó, Maria João Amorim, Anna Bal-Price, Sofia Batista Leite, Anna Beronius, Gillina F.G. Bezemer, Ann Charlotte Bostroem, Annamaria Carusi, Sandra Coecke, Rachel Concha, Evangelos P. Daskalopoulos, Francesca Debernardi, Eizleayne Edrosa, Steve W. Edwards, Julija Filipovska, Natàlia Garcia-Reyero, Felicity N.E. Gavins, Sabina Halappanavar, Alan J. HargreavesHelena T. Hogberg, Mylène T. Huynh, Daniel Jacobson, Jonathan Josephs- Spaulding, Young Jun Kim, Hyun Joon Kong, Catharine E. Krebs, Ann Lam, Brigitte Landesmann, Adrienne Racanelli Layton, Yong Oh Lee, Donna S. Macmillan, Alberto Mantovani, Luigi Margiotta-Casaluci, Marvin Martens, Rosalinde Masereeuw, Sally A. Mayasich, Liang Merlin Mei, Holly Mortensen, Amalia Munoz, Penny Nymark, Elan Ohayon, Joshi Manoj Ojasi, Alicia Paini, Nikolaos Parissis, Surat Parvatam, Francesca Pistollato, Magdalini Sachana, Jorid Birkelund Sørli, Kristie M. Sullivan, Jukka Sund, Shihori Tanabe, Katya Tsaioun, Mathieu Vinken, Laura Viviani, Jennifer Waspe, Catherine Willett, Clemens Wittwehr

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Abstract

On April 28-29, 2021, 50 scientists from different fields of expertise met for the 3rd online CIAO workshop. The CIAO project "Modelling the Pathogenesis of COVID-19 using the Adverse Outcome Pathway (AOP) framework" aims at building a holistic assembly of the available scientific knowledge on COVID-19 using the AOP framework. An individual AOP depicts the disease progression from the initial contact with the SARS-CoV-2 virus through biological key events (KE) toward an adverse outcome such as respiratory distress, anosmia or multiorgan failure. Assembling the individual AOPs into a network highlights shared KEs as central biological nodes involved in multiple outcomes observed in COVID-19 patients. During the workshop, the KEs and AOPs established so far by the CIAO members were presented and positioned on a timeline of the disease course. Modulating factors influencing the progression and severity of the disease were also addressed as well as factors beyond purely biological phenomena. CIAO relies on an interdisciplinary crowdsourcing effort, therefore, approaches to expand the CIAO network by widening the crowd and reaching stakeholders were also discussed. To conclude the workshop, it was decided that the AOPs/KEs will be further consolidated, integrating virus variants and long COVID when relevant, while an outreach campaign will be launched to broaden the CIAO scientific crowd.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)322-335
Number of pages14
JournalAltex
Volume39
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

Funding

The CIAO project is steered by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (EC-JRC), the Humane Society International (HSI), and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). For Jorid Birkelund Sørli, the research is supported by FIKA, Focused Research Effort on Chemicals in the Working Environment from the Danish Government. For Daniel Jacobson, this work was supported by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the US Department of Energy (LOIS:10074) and the National Institutes of Health 3RF1AG053303-01S2. Institutional Statement: This manuscript has been coauthored by UT-Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/ downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

FundersFunder number
FIKA
Focused Research Effort on Chemicals in the Working Environment
National Institutes of Health3RF1AG053303-01S2
U.S. Department of EnergyLOIS:10074
National Institute of Environmental Health SciencesZIAES103367
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
UT-BattelleDE-AC05-00OR22725

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