Reinnervate to present and exhibit at the American Society for Cell Biology annual conference 2011

Sedgefield, UK, 18 November 2011. Reinnervate, the expert in making routine 3D cell culture a reality, has announced that the company will exhibit and present at this year’s American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) annual conference (Denver, USA, 3 – 7th December 2011). Reinnervate’s Chief Scientific Officer, Professor Stefan Przyborski, will deliver a case study presentation at 18.15 on Sunday 4^th December entitled ‘Enabling Routine 3D Cell Culture for Disease Modelling, Toxicity Screening and Safety Testing’. Seats are available on a first come, first served basis, and can be booked online via the Reinnervate website. The talk will discuss the use of alvetex^®, Reinnervate’s innovative polystyrene scaffold which allows cells to grow and form complex 3D structures, thereby mimicking cellular growth in vivo. In addition, the company will be exhibiting at booth 153, where Reinnervate experts will be on hand to discuss how the company’s range of novel 3D cell culture products can meet your research needs.

 

As places for Professor Przyborski’s talk are limited, attendees are advised to book their seat as soon as possible using the company’s simple online registration form.

 

For further information, please contact

 

For Reinnervate
Ashley Cooper, Chief Executive Officer   For Alto Marketing	+44 (0)1740 625266 info@reinnervate.com
Paul Avery Alto Marketing	+44 (0) 1489 557672 paulavery@alto-marketing

About reinnervate

 

Reinnervate is an innovative life sciences company dedicated to making routine 3D cell culture a reality for researchers in academia and in the pharmaceutical and related industries.

 

Reinnervate’s core technology is alvetex^®, a unique and proprietary scaffold that enables routine 3D cell culture in the laboratory. Alvetex^® provides a nanoscale environment that supports genuine homogeneous 3D cell growth. Cells grown using alvetex form complex 3D tissue cultures which more closely mimic normal in-vivo cell growth and the formation of tissues in the body than conventional techniques. The use of alvetex-derived 3D cell cultures can provide researchers with greater insight into how cells behave in the body in response to external factors (such as drug candidates) than is currently possible with existing 2D or other emerging 3D cell culture technologies.

 

Reinnervate has generated significant data, which have been published extensively in peer-reviewed publications, exemplifying the use of alvetex in a large number of cell types and applications. Alvetex^® has been launched globally in several formats: a 12-well culture plate, 6-well and 12-well inserts and a deep well petri dish. 

 

Reinnervate continues to develop its technology for use in the 3D cell culture. During 2012 Reinnervate will deliver further innovative products to help researchers improve the growth and function of their cultured cells

 

Reinnervate was founded in 2002 based on the pioneering research of Professor Stefan Przyborski and his lab at Durham University, UK, and is funded by NorthStar Equity Investors (NSEI), management and private investors.

 

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About alvetex^®

 

alvetex^® is a unique polystyrene material that provides a robust and inert scaffold for cells to grow and form complex 3D structures in the laboratory, mimicking the normal growth and formation of tissues in the body. Reinnervate has extensively tested and validated alvetex^® with a large number of cell types, including liver, skin, cancer and stem cells, all of which have important applications in basic research into cell development, disease modelling and drug safety screening.

 

alvetex^® has been launched globally in several formats: a 12-well culture plate, 6-well and 12-well inserts and a deep petri dish. These formats provide researchers with an exceptional degree of versatility in how they choose to construct different 3D cell culture models. Through enabling alternative applications, such as long-term 3D cell culture over several weeks, 3D cell growth at air/liquid interface and 3D cell growth with different media constituents, to be performed simply and routinely, reinnervate continues to make genuine 3D cell culture a reality for researchers today.

 

alvetex^® was named among the winners of The Scientist magazine’s “Top 10 Life Science Innovations of 2010” and was selected among the most technologically significant of 2010 in the 49th Annual R&D100 Awards.