Expertise and Facilities

 

IPLASS members make their expertise and facilities available for collaborative research, educational and networking activities. Hereafter is the list of available competencies and facilities within the Society.

 

IPLASS MEMBER LABORATORY EXPERTISE FACILITIES
laboratory equipment for:
Centro Ricerca “E.Menni”
Brescia, Italy
PI: Ornella Parolini
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Placenta derived cells:
  • Isolation, culture and cryoconservation,
  • Immunophenotypical and differntiation potential analysis,
  • Immunomodulatory properties,
  • Cells and amniotic membrane transplantation in Pre-clinical animal models.
  • Cell isolation and culture at BL3 level.
  • Cytometry and Cell Sorting facility.
  • Histology and Immuno-histochemistry facility.
  • Molecular and gene expression analysis.
  • External animal house facility.
Swiss Center for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM)
University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
PI: Steffen M. Zeisberger, PhD
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Amniotic & chorionic cells:
  • Isolation / culture / cryopreservation,
  • Immunophenotypical and functional characterization.
  • Tissue-engineered heart valves & vascular grafts.
  • Pre-clinical animal models (mouse, rat, sheep).
  • Clinical trials (GMP).
  • FACS-sorting.
  • Genomics/Proteomics.
  • Animal facility.
  • Tissue-and Cellbiobank.
  • GMP-facility.
Laboratory of Experimental Hematology.
Department of Histology, Embryology and Applied Biology.
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
PI: Prof. Gian Paolo Bagnara.
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Stem cells from placental tissue:
  • amniotic membrane, chorion membrane, Wharton’s Jelly.
  • Studies on differentiation potential into angiogenic and pancreatic commitments.
  • immunomodulatory properties.
  • Cell isolation and culture.
  • Molecular analysis.
  • External Flow Cytometry facility.
  • External animal house facility.
  • External imaging facility.
Department of Anatomy,
Dr. ALM Postgraduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences,
University of Madras, Taramani Campus,
Chennai 600 113, India.
PI: Sankar Venkatachalam
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Amniotic epithelial and stromal cells:

  • Isolation and culture, pre-clinical animal model of spinal cord injury and cell transplantation.
  • Efficacy assessment through behavioural, histological and molecular analysis.
  • Cell culture facility.
  • Experimental animal surgery – creation of contusive spinal cord injury
  • Histology and immunohistochemistry.
  • Molecular and gene expression analysis.
Laboratory of Oncology,
Affiliated Hospital of Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, China
PI: Bing Liu
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Hematopoietic stem cells:

  • Identification from embryonic blood-forming tissues including placenta and AGM region.

Hemangioblast:

  • Identification from mouse embryonic stem cells and embryos.

Mesenchymal stem cells:

  • Isolation and expansion from embryonic and adult tissues.
  • Cell culture at BL3 level.
  • Molecular biology exeperiments.
  • External animal house facility.
Laboratory of Experimental Hematology
University of Antwerp, Belgium
PI: Peter Ponsaerts
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Mesenchymal and neural stem cells:

  • flow cytometry and cell sorting
  • in vivo cell transplantation
  • in vivo bioluminescence imaging.
  • Histology.
  • L2 cell culture and flow cytometry.
  • Molecular biology & histology.
  • Animal facility.
Cell Therapy Research Institute
Lyon, France
PI: Colin McGuckin
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Placenta, amnion, cord, cord blood, adipose:

  • clinical trials, cryo-preservation, differentiation, harvesting, transformation.
  • Clinical grade production.
  • Toxicology.
  • Cell Culture.
  • GMP processing.
  • Cryofacilities.
  • FACS.
  • Molecular Microscopy.
  • External animal. Biomaterials.
  • Bioreactors.
  • Chemistry.
  • A network of 15 laboratories working with the Novus Sanguis (www.novussanguis.org).
Placental Stem Cell Laboratory
Monash Institute of Medical Research
Clayton, Australia
PI: Ursula Manuelpillai
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Amnion and Umbilical Cord Stem Cells:

  • Basic Biology,
  • Transdifferentiation potential,
  • Xenotransplantation.
  • Preclinical animal models for tissue regeneration and repair.
  • Tissue culture suites.
  • FACS.
  • Molecular and protein analysis.
  • Animal houses.
  • Imaging.
  • Access to a wide variety of analytical tools within the Monash Institute of Medical Research.
Austrian Cluster for Tissue Regeneration
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for clinical and experimental Traumatology /AUVA research center
Vienna, Austria
Blood Transfusion Service of Upper Austria
Linz, Austria

Amnion differentiation in toto

  • Isolation, expansion
  • Characterisation and mesenchymal differentiation of amnion cells
  • Preclinical animal models, gene therapeutic approaches
  • Non-invasive imaging
  • Amnion banking
  • Cell culture
  • fluorescence microscopy
  • confocal microscopy
  • flow cytometry
  • ELISA
  • immunohistology
  • gene expression analysis
  • (reporter) gene expression systems
  • animal facility
  • optical in vivo imaging (fluorescence, bioluminescence)
  • in vivo µCT
  • Laser Dopler Imaging
  • GMP facility

 

Placenta derived cells
 

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