National Institute on Aging

In pursuit of making novel research tools available to National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the medical research community in general, NIA and PHI are collaborating to develop an add-on fluorescence module that can be attached to the current model of PHI’s imaging cytometer, HoloMonitor® M4 — essentially creating a new product with a unique combination of holographic and fluorescence imaging capabilities for kinetic single-cell analysis.

HoloMonitor allows cell biologists to monitor physiological transformations of laboratory-cultured cells. The fluorescent module will allow scientists to also study the genetic activity of individual cells and its relationship to observed physiological changes.

NIA is one of the 27 research institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), leading a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and thereby extend our healthy, active years of life. National Institutes of Health is an agency of the United States Department of Health & Human Services.

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Home of NIA — NIH Biomedical Research Center, Baltimore

The Partnerships

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Lund University Cancer Centre

The early HoloMonitor development began at Lund University. The relationship between Lund University and PHI has since evolved into partnerships with several research groups.
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Uppsala University

Supported by PHI, scientists at Uppsala University apply state of the art artificial intelligence on its very source of inspiration — cell biology.
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UCSF

University of California in San Francisco, Gladstone Institutes and PHI jointly operate San Francisco’s Holographic Imaging Cytometry Center of Excellence.
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Gladstone Institutes

Gladstone Institutes, UCSF and PHI jointly operate San Francisco’s Holographic Imaging Cytometry Center of Excellence.
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Huntsman Cancer Institute

Supported by PHI, Dr. Robert Judson-Torres and his team at Huntsman Cancer Institute aim to develop methods to quantify the phenomena known as epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT).
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Malmö University

PHI and Malmö University have a long-standing collaboration, dating back to 2008. The collaboration has resulted in several peer reviewed publications and a doctoral thesis.
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Northeastern University

The joint program of excellence between Northeastern University and PHI began in late 2014. Since then HoloMonitor technology has rapidly established itself as a technology of choice for label-free kinetic cellular analysis.