FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING AND AUTOMATION IPA Background Individualized cancer therapy, as part of personalized medicine, aims for an optimal treatment with minimal side effects. In che- motherapy, one approach is to screen for the most potent combination of chemothe- rapeutics. The fully automated DiagnoSYS platform technology is a system effectively using the potential of chemosensitivity assays. Our Service The DiagnoSYS platform technology uses an ATP/TCA assay to determine chemo- sensitivity. Integrated tissue preparation combined with magnetic cell enrichment and depletion and luminescence based cell vitality measurements make it possible to screen for a high number of chemothera- peutic combinations. If you are looking for high efficient perso- nalized screening devices, we can offer you a full engineering service from planning to installation. Your Benefit The platform technology is based on the internationally accepted SBS-format. Therefore, all processing steps, from tissue preparation to luminescence or fluore- scence readings, can rapidly and easily be exchanged, and allows for processing different assay approaches. AUTOMATED PERSONALIZED CHEMOSENSITIVITY TESTING 1 DiagnoSYS device for chemosen- sitivity testing 2 Integrated tissue preparation Project Group for Automation in Medicine and Biotechnology Theodor-Kutzer-Ufer 1-3 | House 8 68167 Mannheim | Germany Contact Christian Reis Head of Bioprocess Engineering Phone +49 (0) 621 17207 120 [email protected] http://pamb.ipa.fraunhofer.de 1 2