Watch the actual AUTOSTEM pipeline in action
In this video, watch the fully automated AUTOSTEM pipeline in action! Our partners Fraunhofer IPT are credited with the creation of this video.
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Take a virtual tour of the fully automated AUTOSTEM pipeline
Take the virtual tour here: The AUTOSTEM platform concept was designed as a user-oriented, closed, automated system to provide an efficient pipeline for the delivery of large numbers of therapeutic cells (mesenchymal stromal cells or MSCs). The process starts with a bone marrow donation, taken from the hip bone of a donor using a novel[…]
Fraunhofer IPT Press Release: “Fully equipped, automated laboratory advances for clinical stem cell therapies”
Read the entire Fraunhofer IPT press release issued 12 February 2019 here. Below is an excerpt from it. Exploring commercial perspectives of the project outputs The AUTOSTEM team which has been working together in the project represents a wealth of experience in regenerative medicine, automation and robotics, bio-reactors and cell production, regulatory affairs and quality[…]
AUTOSTEM Platform brochure is available
The AUTOSTEM Platform brochure has been published and is available for download here. Congratulations to the entire AUTOSTEM team!
Final AUTOSTEM plenary meeting, Aachen, Germany
The final AUTOSTEM meeting was hosted by Fraunhofer-IPT in Aachen, Germany. The two-day meeting was held December 11 and 12, 2018 and 32 partner representatives were present. Coordinator Mary Murphy (NUIG) welcomed, greeted and opened the meeting. Nora Ward (PT) reviewed the reporting requirements that are outstanding, the budgetary figures, deliverables achieved, milestones, scheduling, risk[…]
Aston U’s Christopher Hewitt will present AUTOSTEM findings at Scale-up and Manufacturing conference, U.S.
The AUTOSTEM team at Aston University, Birmingham, U.K. have had an abstract accepted and been selected for a poster presentation at the ECI Scale-up and Manufacturing of Cell-based Therapies VI in San Diego, California, the U.S. The conference will take place the 15-19 January 2019. The title of the accepted abstract is “Isolation and expansion of human[…]
Aston University researchers present AUTOSTEM, win award and participate in training
AUTOSTEM partners at Aston University have had a busy autumn schedule. Three Aston researchers have been active in disseminating the progress of AUTOSTEM and recent findings. Drs Petra Hanga and Shibani Ratnayake attended the BESIG IChemE Novel Technologies in Industrial Bioprocessing Meeting that was held at CPI Darlington, the UK on the 11th and 12th of September 2018. Dr Ratnayake[…]
AUTOSTEM exhibits at Galway Science & Technology Festival 2018
AUTOSTEM Coordinator Dr Mary Murphy and PI Prof Frank Barry amongst many other NUI Galway researchers participated at the Galway Science and Technology Festival Exhibition Day on Sunday, 25 November 2018. The AUTOSTEM display in the Bailey Allen Hall of the National University of Ireland Galway exhibited models and props which helped to explain osteoarthritis disease and[…]
Colm Barrett, Tyndall represents AUTOSTEM at UTILE’s Innovation Training Workshop
AUTOSTEM was one of 9 promising health and life science projects funded under FP7 and Horizon 2020 Funding Programmes to be invited to attend UTILE Project‘s 2nd Business and Innovation Training Workshop and the Brokerage Event on October 10th and 11th 2018 in Bologna Italy, in the framework of the most important international event dedicated to the Life Science sector, the Meet in Italy for Life Sciences 2018.[…]
University of Genoa PI Chiara Gentili and lab feature in Ricerca & Innovazione
AUTOSTEM PI Chiara Gentili and her group at the University of Genoa featured in the July 2018 communication publication Ricerca & Innovazione. The story, “Nanotechnologies for Cell Therapy” appears on page 114, and describes AUTOSTEM and also STARSTEM, a recently funded Horizon 2020 project. View the entire publication here in Italian. Read the English version of the story here.