Congratulations, Roger!
The Shu Chien Scientific Achievement Award is bestowed by the Biomedical Engineering Society's Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering SIG in recognition of Prof Kamm's "... his highly meritorious contributions to the field of cellular and molecular bioengineering, including groundbreaking scientific advances, the development of programs, and the mentoring and training of the next generation of scientists working in the field. ... " Congratulations, Roger! Photo by Tony Pulsone
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The AIM team will be exhibiting at the 2019 ASCB | EMBO Meeting in Washington DC. The meeting will take place from December 7-11th, while the exhibition will be from 930am-4pm December 8-10th.
See you at: Booth 1002 Walter E. Washington Convention Center 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW Washington, DC 20001 Please email us at info@aimbiotech.com if you would like to schedule a meeting. Sade-Feldman et al from the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, the Broad Institute, the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and others demonstrated in the Cell paper that:
Joint webinar with MilliporeSigma on"3D Organ-on-a-chip Applications using AIM Biotech chips"18/10/2018 In vitro 3D cell culture models bridge the gap between conventional 2D cell culture and expensive in vivo animal models. Join our webinar, where we cover how to generate simple & complex 3D organ models for research, drug metabolism, and toxicity studies using the microfluidic 3D organ-on-a-chip from AIM Biotech. Register now at this link.
A blood-brain barrier (BBB) model is achieved by co-culturing iPSC-derived endothelial cells, human astrocytes and pericytes in microfluidic chips featuring AIM's technology. The BBB model not only exhibits physiologically relevant structures but also has permeability that is comparable to the in vivo permeability measurement in rat brain. From a recent publication in Biomaterials. Update: A detailed protocol is available for the blood-brain barrier assay. Click on the button below:
![]() A Nature Medicine paper by researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, NYU and others features the discovery of a new genetic profile, SPARCS that predicts tumor immune response. The authors used AIM chips and human NSCLC biopsies to show that SPARCS_high profiles correspond with positive immune-checkpoint responses. Dr Amir Aref of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute will be sharing how short-term culture of organotypic patient tumor spheroids derived from patient xenografts in AIM chips predicts in vivo response of targeted therapies at AACR 2018 on Sunday 350pm 15th April (see the full abstract & details at this link)
Two Cancer Discovery papers feature a novel ex vivo immune checkpoint assay developed with AIM chips9/11/2017 Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and MIT have developed a novel ex vivo assay (above) to profile the PD-1 blockade, making it possible to interrogate the tumor immune microenvironment, develop novel therapeutic combinations, and facilitate precision immuno-oncology efforts. The assay is detailed by Jenkins et al in “Ex Vivo Profiling of PD-1 Blockade Using Organotypic Tumor Spheroids“, Cancer Discovery doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-17-0833
The ex vivo organotypic tumor spheroid culture system was utilised by Deng et al to show that CDK4/6 inhibition augments the response to PD-1 blockade. The effect was validated in multiple in vivo murine syngeneic models, thereby providing a rationale for combining CDK4/6 inhibitors and immunotherapies. The results are detailed in “CDK4/6 Inhibition Augments Anti-Tumor Immunity by Enhancing T Cell Activation”, Cancer Discovery doi: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-17-0915 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute news release (click here) * Update 5th Sep 2018 Follow up publication: *3D microfluidic ex vivo culture of organotypic tumor spheroids to model immune checkpoint blockade. Aref AR, Campisi M, Ivanova E, Portell A, Larios D, Piel BP... Jenkins RW. Lab on a Chip, 2018, DOI: 10.1039/C8LC00322J |