黑料网 researcher,, William Rand Kenan Professor in the 黑料网 Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, will collaborate with Research Triangle Park-based Cell Microsystems in an effort to speed the use of CRISPR technology in lab experiments.
The company was awarded two federal Small Business Innovation and Research awards totaling $1.9 million to automate distinct CRISPR workflows using their proprietary聽, which was created by the lab of 黑料网 Lineberger鈥檚 , Kenan Professor and Chair of the 黑料网/NCSU Joint Biomedical Engineering Department.
Marzluff is one of two collaborators on a Phase II grant awarded to the company to validate Cell Microsystems鈥� CellRaft AIR鈩� System in core laboratories. The system is an automated platform 鈥渆mploying an integrated fluorescent microscope to image, sort, and isolate cells or small clonal colonies cultured on the CytoSort鈩� Array,鈥� according to a .
In 2010, Allbritton and two members of her lab 鈥� senior scientist Christopher Sims, MD, and research associate Yuli Wang, PhD 鈥� founded Cell Microsystems. Since then, the company has received federal research awards for areas in addition to CRISPR workflows, including single cell genomics, HIV latency reversal, cancer immunotherapy, and high-resolution imaging.