DROPTECH

Hanging Drop based automated and parallelized cell technology platform for production and testing

Coordinatore	FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V    more  Organization address address: Hansastrasse 27C city: MUENCHEN postcode: 80686 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Andrea Cognome: Zeumann Email: send email Telefono: +49 89 1205 2723 Fax: +49 89 1205 7534
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	5˙228˙090 €
EC contributo	4˙051˙319 €
Programma	FP7-HEALTH Specific Programme "Cooperation": Health
Code Call	FP7-HEALTH-2013-INNOVATION-2
Funding Scheme	CP-FP
Anno di inizio	2014
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2014-02-01   -   2017-01-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V  Organization address address: Hansastrasse 27C city: MUENCHEN postcode: 80686 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Andrea Cognome: Zeumann Email: send email Telefono: +49 89 1205 2723 Fax: +49 89 1205 7534	DE (MUENCHEN)	coordinator	2˙015˙949.00
2	EUROPEAN SCREENINGPORT GMBH  Organization address address: SCHNACKENBURGALLEE 114 city: HAMBURG postcode: 22525 contact info Titolo: Dr. Nome: Mira Cognome: Grättinger Email: send email Telefono: 4940300000000 Fax: 4940300000000	DE (HAMBURG)	participant	943˙135.00
3	ROSLIN CELLAB LIMITED  Organization address address: WALLACE BUILDING ROSLIN BIOCENTRE city: ROSLIN MIDLOTHIAN postcode: EH25 9PP contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Malcolm Cognome: Bateman Email: send email Telefono: 441312000000	UK (ROSLIN MIDLOTHIAN)	participant	816˙139.00
4	ARTTIC  Organization address address: Rue du Dessous des Berges 58A city: PARIS postcode: 75013 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Annette Cognome: Ringwald Email: send email Telefono: 33153945467	FR (PARIS)	participant	276˙096.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Cell-based screenings are today a necessary tool for all types of clinical development and/or market approval of new drugs and chemicals. The major change in the last decade is a shift towards more physiologically relevant yet complex and sensitive cell models, like stem cells, and more recently, the shift to human induced pluripotent cells. Stem-cell technology has the potential to revolutionize drug discovery, making models available for primary screens, secondary pharmacology, safety pharmacology, metabolic profiling and toxicity evaluation. The overall aim of DropTech is the development of automated handling processes for stem cells with integrated readout methods, required for the use of stem cells in high-throughput assays such as the embryonic stem cell test (EST). DropTech will result on the one hand in a fully automated screening platform, usable by the industrial partners for reproducible and standardized high-throughput screening services and aggregate production. On the other hand a system that is directly exploitable for industrialization and marketing will be available to perform reliable and fast at least semi-automated screening approaches for customers. Therefore, the complete workflow of the EST, including stem cell expansion, embryoid body formation in hanging drops and transfer to 2D conditions will be automated using robotic and microfluidics systems. This will enable standardized, fast and efficient embryotoxicity screenings reducing the need for animal tests. DropTech will enable testing in a small- and medium-scaled budget accessible for SMEs and academia in the field of biotech and biomedicine. The DropTech platform will have therefore a significant impact on the development of new medication and therapies and will enable personalized medicine approaches as well as - in future - regenerative medicine. DropTech facilitate the use of cell models with highest biological relevance (human pluripotent stem cells) in their native conformation.'