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Paris –June 21st, 2010. Françoise Soussaline, IMSTAR CEO, was today awarded the 2010 Irène Joliot-Curie Prize by Valerie Pecresse the French Minister of Higher Education and Research

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:07:50 +0100

The jury, chaired by Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Prize of Medicine 2008, awarded Françoise Soussaline the prize in the "Top female scientific company career" category, to reward a woman who has dedicated her remarkable scientific and technical skills to a career in research within a company or who has contributed to the creation of an innovative firm.
This award highlights and encourages a woman who has distinguished herself through exemplary scientific activity within the field of French research.
More information is available on the Ministry of Higher Education and Research' website: http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid52213/remise-du-prix-irene-joliot-curie-2010.html

PathFinder™ Cellscan System installed at Centre of Toxicology, University of London

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:44:32 +0100

IMSTAR recently installed the PathFinder™ Cellscan MN platform for automated micronucleus assay scoring at the Centre of Toxicology, School of Pharmacy at University of London. Professor Andreas Kortenkamp is Head of Centre.
The research at the centre for Toxicology is focused on three areas: the combination effects of mixtures of environmental pollutants with endocrine-disrupting properties; anti-tumour agents and novel drug carrier systems; and organ toxicity. There is a current focus on endocrine active chemicals in the environment and particularly the effects of multi-component mixtures. The joint effect of mixtures is also being studied in relation to the optimisation of anti-cancer combination therapy. Research is also being undertaken to assess the adverse effects of drugs and chemicals on organs including the heart, kidney, liver, musculo-skeletal system and lymphoid organs.

The Pathfinder™ Cellscan MN automated System will be used, essentially, in the last research area.

For more information see http://www.lon.ac.uk

Poster presented at Society of Toxicology’s 49th annual meeting and ToxExpoT 2010, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, March 7-11, 2010

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:25:45 +0100

Gladys Ouedraogo, from L’Oreal International Safely Research Department, presented results of a collaboration work between IMSTAR’ team entitled: “ Towards an automated scoring system for the Syrian hamster embryo assay”

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Paris - 8th March 2010. Françoise Soussaline, IMSTAR President, awarded the 2010 Irène Joliot-Curie Prize.

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:17:47 +0100

The jury, chaired by Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Prize of Medicine 2008, awarded Françoise Soussaline the prize in the "Top female scientific company career" category, to reward a woman who has dedicated her remarkable scientific and technical skills to a career in research within a company or who has contributed to the creation of an innovative firm.
This award highlights and encourages a woman who has distinguished herself through exemplary scientific activity within the field of French research. Françoise Soussaline will be awarded her prize in June 2010 by Valérie Pecresse, the Minister for Higher Education and Research.
More information is available on the Ministry of Higher Education and Research' website: http://www.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/cid50774/les-laureates-du-9e-prix-irene-joliot-curie.htm

Françoise Soussaline is a PhD in Molecular Spectroscopy and D.Sc in Biophysics under the guidance of Pr Georges Charpak, Physics Nobel Prize. Trained in Paris, France and in the USA, she was Assistant Professor at Paris Medical Faculty, Researcher at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Pr Maurice Tubiana), and Head of the Instrumentation and Biomedical Sciences Group at the Atomic Energy Commission for the design and development of PET (Pr André Syrota). Françoise founded IMSTAR in 1985, incorporated in 1990, and since then, she is the President and Chief Scientific Officer. IMSTAR is a high tech company specialized in the design, development and marketing of Automated Cellular Imaging Systems based on Pathfinder™ patented technology for Genetic toxicology, Cytogenetics and Cyto-Pathology in research and assisted diagnostic, as well as tumor cells detection and therapeutic staging. IMSTAR is an active partner or project leader of several EU and French consortia.
Since 2006, she is a representative of innovative SMEs as member of the executive board of Medicen Paris Region Biocluster, for innovation and technology transfer in Biomedical business and promotion of Health advanced technologies at the European Commission level.
She was awarded by the Ministry of Industry, in 1997, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur for her contribution to Bio-medical innovation in Industrial research.

Contact: francoise.soussaline@imstarsa.com

Conference presented at TOPIM 2010 (for ‘hot TOPics in molecular IMaging) workshop, organized by the European Society for Molecular Imaging (ESMI) and the European Network of Excellence DiMI, Bardonecchia, Italy, February 7-12th, 2010

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:50:12 +0100

Results of collaboration between presented a conference entitled: “Kinome-targeted siRNA screen identifies, kinase regulating the differentiation/proliferation balance in prostate cancer cells “

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The 4th Annual Consortium Meeting of NewGeneris, University of Crete, Heraklion, on 3-5 February 2010.

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:29:59 +0100

IMSTAR will be represented at the 4th Annual Consortium meeting for NewGeneris next month in the University of Crete, Greece.
New Generis is an Integrated Project which forms part of the ‘Integrating and Strengthening the European Research Area’ program established under the European Commission Sixth Framework. The project focuses on the ‘Development and application of Biomarkers of dietary exposure to genotoxic and immunotoxic chemicals and of Biomarkers of early effects, using mother-child birth cohorts and biobanks'

For more information see http://www.newgeneris.org/

IMSTAR expends on the Tobacco Industry market

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:24:10 +0100

British American Tobacco, through its subsidiary Advanced Technologies Cambridge, is a long-date customer of IMSTAR for automated screening in genetic toxicology assays. Today, IMSTAR is proud to announce that the company will also supply Japan Tobacco International, through its subsidiary in Austria. IMSTAR provides cutting-edge technologies for fast and reliable automated scoring in genetic toxicology assays, including micronucleus assay in Acrinine Orange staining.

Full success for BIOTYPE project:

Wed, 13 Jan 2010 10:05:24 +0100

BIOTYPE, a project led by IMSTAR and certified in 2006 by the Pôle de Compétitivité MEDICEN of the Paris Region, has come to its term, after 30 months. It involved six innovative SMEs, Sanofi Aventis a big Pharma and four academic labs CEA, Pasteur Institute, Armines and AssitancePublique-Hôpitaux de Paris, to develop new approaches in functional cellular screening and molecular profiling in predictive and tailored medicine, using as a demonstrator the prostate cancer pathologies at different stages. After one PhD, six papers, fifteen presentations in world class conferences, but also the set-up of integrated platforms involving high-throughput and high-content multiplex phenotyping characterization, it has proved to be fully sucessful in paving the way to clinical applications.

Poster presented at Conference on Functional Genomics and Systems Biology Workshop, Welcome Trust, Cambridge, UK, November 30th-December 2nd, 2009

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:47:54 +0100

Jean-Philippe Vert, Mines ParisTech, CBIO presented results of a collaborative work between IMSTAR’ team, CBIO & CMM Mines ParisTech’ team, Biopuces Laboratory, Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), in the frame of the french R&D Project BIOTYPE, led by IMSTAR and certified by MEDICEN PARIS REGION competitivity cluster, entitled: “ High-troughput screening of kinase inhibition effect on prostate tumour cell differentiation and proliferation“.

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IMSTAR expands in the genotox service market in South America

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:10:15 +0100

IMSTAR has installed Pathfinder™ Cellscan SreenTox, a robotized system for automated screening of genetic toxicology assays including micronucleus assay, comet assay, chromosome aberrations scoring, mitotic index measurement and H2AX foci detection, at the Genotox Instituto Royal in Porto Alegre (Brazil). This prestigious center is focussed on providing service to various industries in South America while performing a cutting-edge research activity.

ICEM conference 2009 in Florence (Italy)

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:00:44 +0100

IMSTAR will present its newer achievements in automated imaging at the exhibition space (booth n°8) of the ICEM conference to be held in Florence (Italy) from August the 20th to the 25th 2009. On this occasion, IMSTAR will also present several scientific posters during the scientific sessions, in collaboration with prestigious european research groups. IMSTAR develops and commercializes automated imaging systems for research, in vitro diagnostic and screening. In particular, the company proposes cutting-edge instruments for fully automated scoring of in vitro and in vivo comet assay, in vitro and in vivo micronucleus assay, chromosome aberrations scoring, mitotic index measurements and H2AX expression determination.

Validation of MN assay scoring

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:10:38 +0100

IMSTAR is co-author of a paper published in Mutagenesis by the team of Micheline Kirsch-Volders at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels in Belgium. This work validates the automated scoring for Micronucleus assay using IMSTAR Pathfinder™ technology on human lymphocytes stained in Giemsa under the CBMN method. While performed in the frame of NewGeneris European Program in which IMSTAR is a partner, this paper demonstrates IMSTAR's cutting edge performances in the field of automated scoring for genetic toxicology. IMSTAR proposes integrated solutions for automated scoring of micronucleus assay, comet assay, chromosome aberrations scoring and mitotic index measurement on a broad variety of cells and stainings. For more information, click here and contact us today. Thanks to Pathfinder™ modular structure, those tests may be multiplexed on the same platform with general cytotoxicity assays.

EEMS 2008

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:00:23 +0100

IMSTAR will present two posters at the EEMS conference to be held September 21-25 in Cavtat (Croatia): "Fully automated micronuclei detection and comet assay scoring using Pathinder high-content imaging technology" and "Method comparison for automated high-throughput high-content screening of the comet assay" in collaboration with Andrew Collins's lab (University of Oslo), IMSTAR's partner within COMICS European Project for empowering the comet assay throughput and performances. IMSTAR today offers cutting edge integrated soutions for automated scoring of genetic toxicology assays, including comet and micronucleus assay. At the EEMS conference, you will have the opportunity to meet an IMSTAR's representative. Call us today if you need a specific appointment.

Comet assay on plant cells:

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:56:03 +0100

IMSTAR is proud to announce the installation of a Pathfinder™ Cellscan COMET platform at the Institute of Experimental Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha in the DNA repair lab (Dr. Karel J. Angelis). "We already noticed IMSTAR's expertise in quantitative imaging for comet assay in the COMICS European project we are involved in. We appreciate IMSTAR's customer-oriented attitude to adapt to such complex assays as comets on plant cells", says Karel Angelis. This tool will increase the scoring capacity and the precision for assays where reproductibility and ability to detect comets with various shapes is a key issue.

COMICS course in Bratislava:

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:24:10 +0100

IMSTAR will be part of the next COMICS course to be held September 17-19 in Bratislava (Slovakia). This course, organised by TATAA Biocenter will give a comprehensive overview of the most advanced techniques in the field of Comet assay and teach them to researchers (for inscriptions, please contact TATAA Biocenter). This knowledge and know-how represent dissemination of the advancements of the COMICS European program (6th PCRD, leader: Andrew Collins) in which IMSTAR is partner for revolutionizing high-throughput high-content scoring techniques using different formats (slides, Gelbonds™, cell-on-chips). For more information, contact IMSTAR today.