Innovative microfluidic impedance-based device for multi-parametric cell analysis
DIMID "Development of an Innovative Microfluidic Impedance-based Device for multi-parametric cell analysis” is a highly interdisciplinary project where microfluidics, electronics, biology and informatics converge with the aim of building a low cost impedance cytometer suitable for non-spherical cells and equipped with disposable chips. The two years DIMID project started in October 2011 funded under the FP7 “Research for SMES” programme. The DIMID consortium is formed by three SMES and four RTD performers from five different countries. The DIMID device structure basically consists of the electronic unit developed by Zurich (Switzerland), the disposable chip designed by Cellix (Ireland) and the system software created by Cytognos (Spain). Those modules will shape a unique integrated low cost impedance device allowing faster and less expensive cell analyses, obtaining results comparable to the currently available high-end solutions. An intensive research work and support has been carried out by the RTD performers on microfluidic chips (University of Southampton and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), electronic control unit (LABOR) and DIMID signal processing algorithms (LABOR, University of Tor Vergata and University of Southampton). DIMID device will have broad potential applications including identification and counting of different blood cells populations, real-time cell culture analysis, identification of rare cells and green house applications (analysis and quality control of seeds). At the end of its first year the SMEs within the consortium clearly recognized a significant market potential of the DIMID device. In order to launch a successful product costly marketing and demonstration activities were identified as key factors. Therefore, the original DIMID project SMES jointly with LAB64 (Germany) and AMPHASYS (Switzerland) decided to submit a proposal for the demonstration DIMIDplus project under the FP7-SMES-2013 Demonstration Activities. In March 2013, the DIMIDplus proposal was successfully evaluated by the European Commission. First discussions with new consortium members took already place and a joined strategy on howto exploit the excellent results achieved in DIMID has been identified. For more information on the DIMID project and its continuation DIMID-PLUS, please visit: http://www.dimid-project.eu
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Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Sweden, Slovenia, Slovakia, United Kingdom