SBIR-STTR Award

Chemotherapy may control but rarely cure metastatic cancers Remarkably modern immunotherapies including cell based therapies have cured metastatic melanomas and other types of cancers A major challenge for all cell therapies in general is the need to develop cost effective and efficient manufacturing and delivery capabilities We have recently established an innovative cell isolation technology by applying targeted microbubbles which have a number of interesting properties that are ideal for bulk cell isolation Here we propose a simple and cost efficient system to enrich cells of interest that require multiple markers to identify by integrating these features When this project is successful a closed automated system using only a single container will be developed and manufactured for cell isolation expansion and manipulation