Learn more about Image-Based Screening for Precision Medicine and Immunotherapy during a webinar by PerkinElmer
YORBA LINDA, Calif. (PRWEB) November 26, 2018 -- By enabling the detection of single-cell phenotypes after small molecule or biological perturbation, high-throughput confocal microscopy has changed the way drug screening can be performed. Combined with advances in image analysis, which have allowed for the quantification of these single cell events, it opens new doors for large phenotype-focused studies. However, these technologies have historically been used with adherent cell lines. By amending these technologies to non-adherent cells, we can perform image-based screening directly in human primary material, enabling more clinically translatable drug screening, and ultimately, functional precision medicine.
Dr. Gregory Vladimer, the speaker for this event, is the CSO and Scientific Co-Founder of Allcyte in Vienna, Austria. Greg received his PhD in immunology from the Program in Innate Immunity of the Department of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, prior to his postdoctoral work at the Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
During the presentation, he will discuss the interim results of a clinical trial, from the Center of Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Medical University of Vienna, which combined multiparametric immunofluorescence with high-throughput automated microscopy and single cell image analysis with the aim to quantify tumor-cell specific biological parameters of millions of adherent and non-adherent individual cells from primary samples. This resulted in the ability to prioritize treatment options for patients with late-stage hematological malignancies. An interim analysis, published in late 2017 Lancet Haematology, revealed that patients receiving treatment prioritized by this program had a longer progression-free survival on this therapy than the prior round of therapy.
This style screening can be further combined with epigenetic sequencing to rationally uncover combination treatment options for specific indications. Lastly, using images of multi-lineage cells from the haematological system, and novel statistical algorithms, we can quantify the propensity of cells to physically interact with each other, thereby mapping the effect of ex vivo stimuli on immune responses, and potentially uncover new immunomodulatory drugs.
Join this free webinar on December 6, 2018, beginning at 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET, 10:00 EST, 07:00 PST. To learn more about this event, the continuing education credits offered, or to register click here.
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About LabRoots
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About Allcyte
Allcyte is a start-up biotechnology company located in Vienna, Austria focusing on the use of
high-throughput and high-content automated confocal imaging of primary patient material
to answer key biological questions of drug function and action – and progressing function drug testing and “big-data imaging” for precision cancer medicine. Allcyte is a spin-off of CeMM, the Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Hilary Thompson, LabRoots, Inc., http://www.LabRoots.com, +1 (707)407-8355, [email protected]
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