February 23, 2017 – Invitrocue (ASX: IVQ) is pleased to announce that the company has signed a Collaborative Research Master Agreement with the Garvan Institute of Medical Research. The aim of the collaboration is to provide further medical validation of Invitrocue’s technology for use in personalised real time screening of cancer drugs. It is envisaged that the parties may consider entering into further agreement to offer the technology as a clinical service.
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For more information, please contact:
Martin D. Bach, VP Operations
T: +65 6460 0490
martind.bach@invitrocue.com
About Invitrocue
Invitrocue is a leading healthcare bio-analytic solutions including in vitro cell-based testing technologies and image analytics software for use in digital pathology. Invitrocue has developed a unique 3D cell-based scaffolding technology that mimics human organ samples for using in the field of infectious diseases. In 2016, the company expanded its work in liver disease to the field of oncology. The technology enables patient-derived cancer cells (organoids) to be cultured in laboratories for testing against a panel of drugs to support clinical decision making for individual patients (personalised medicine). Invitrocue’s technology originated in Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). Invitrocue has been developed and validated in partnerships with leading biopharmaceutical companies and scientific collaborators.
About Garvan Institute of Medical Research
The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is one of Australia’s leading biomedical research institutes, pioneering study into the most widespread diseases affecting Australia today, including cancer, neurodegenerative and mental diseases, disorders of the immune system, diabetes and obesity, osteoporosis and other skeletal disorders.
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