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Electrochemical imaging of metabolic activity in tissue and biofilms

Sorour Darvishi

Non-invasive and semi-invasive bioimaging is of great interest for the rapid diagnosis and efficient as well as specific treatments of biological systems affecting human health, such as cancer tissue and biofilms. Electrochemical bioimaging is one of the d ...

EPFL2022

Bioengineering Methods to Improve in vitro Adoptive Cell Therapy based on Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes

François Réal Rivest

Cancer is one of the biggest medical challenges of our times, with a devastating impact across all social categories. Accordingly, considerable efforts are geared towards improving the standard of care. Among them, immunotherapy, which relies on the immune ...

EPFL2020

Advanced technological tools to study multidrug resistance in cancer

Sandor Kasas

The complexity of cancer biology and its clinical manifestation are driven by genetic, epigenetic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomic alterations, supported by genomic instability as well as by environmental conditions and lifestyle factors. Althoug ...

CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE2020

Combining fluorescence-based image segmentation and automated microfluidics for ultrafast cell-by-cell assessment of biomarkers for HER2-type breast carcinoma

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Daniel Migliozzi, Huu Tuan Nguyen

Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is one of the main clinical techniques for biomarker assessment on tissue biopsies. It consists in chromogenic labeling with specific antibodies, followed by optical imaging, and it is used for diagnosis and therapeutic targeting ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2019

Microfluidic-based immunohistochemistry for breast cancer diagnosis: a comparative clinical study

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Diego Gabriel Dupouy, Saska Brajkovic, Fabio Aimi

Breast cancer is a highly heterogeneous disease. The efficacy of tailored therapeutic strategies relies on the precise detection of diagnostic biomarkers by immunohistochemistry (IHC). Therefore, considering the increasing incidence of breast cancer cases, ...

2019

Microfluidic-assisted chromogenic in situ hybridization (MA-CISH) for fast and accurate breast cancer diagnosis

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Raphaël Etienne Jean Trouillon, Huu Tuan Nguyen

Chromogenic in situ hybridization (CISH) is a common technique that is used for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) assessment in breast cancer diagnosis. CISH is based on the enzymatic amplification of DNA markers, generating a colorimetric im ...

Elsevier2017

Time-Dependent Diffusion MRI in Cancer: Tissue Modeling and Applications

Olivier Benoit Thomas Reynaud

In diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) has been recognized as a useful and sensitive surrogate for cell density, paving the way for non-invasive tumor staging, and characterization of treatment efficacy in cancer. How ...

Frontiers Research Foundation2017

Extra short incubation microfluidic assisted – fluorescence in situ hybridization (ESIMA-FISH)

Martinus Adela Maria Gijs, Raphaël Etienne Jean Trouillon, Huu Tuan Nguyen, Estelle Annick Cuttaz

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a powerful technique for evaluating the HER2 gene status in breast cancer specimen (1). However, most of FISH assays currently used in clinical laboratories are expensive and require long experimental time, up t ...

2016

Microfluidic staining technology and automated image processing for fast and accurate tissue-based diagnostics

Diego Gabriel Dupouy

The development of microfluidics has led to significant improvements in many areas of in vitro diagnostics. This thesis proposes the use of microfluidic device technology in the field of anatomic pathology, leading to faster and more accurate tissue-based ...

EPFL2016

Protein-binding microarray technology and ChIP-sequencing for the identification of novel targets of the human tumor suppressor AP2[alpha]

The mis-regulation of gene transcription in the living cell can be the cause of complex human diseases like cancer. One challenge of the post-genomic era of biomedical research is the development of in vitro techniques for the rapid and cost-effective anal ...

EPFL2009

Can survival prediction be improved by merging gene expression data sets?

Philipp Bucher

BACKGROUND: High-throughput gene expression profiling technologies generating a wealth of data, are increasingly used for characterization of tumor biopsies for clinical trials. By applying machine learning algorithms to such clinically documented data set ...

Public Library of Science2009

The Ret receptor tyrosine kinase pathway functionally interacts with the ERalpha pathway in breast cancer

Cathrin Brisken

A limited number of receptor tyrosine kinases (e.g., ErbB and fibroblast growth factor receptor families) have been genetically linked to breast cancer development. Here, we investigated the contribution of the Ret receptor tyrosine kinase to breast tumor ...

2008