Second Collaboration with Top Regenerative Medicine Centre

The Automation Partnership (TAP) is to continue its partnership with the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Regenerative Medicine at Loughborough for a second five year phase. This follows the recent announcement by Prime Minister, Gordon Brown and Lord Mandelson, UK Secretary of State, Department for Business, Innovation and Skills of a £5.33 million grant to the centre.

The new partnership will mean further development and testing of the CompacT CellBase™ system for culturing clinically applicable stem cells in a GMP environment and to begin new research with the centre to develop

ambr™, TAP’s microscale bioreactor.

This collaboration is a continuation of the work TAP began as part of the remedi (regenerative medicine – a new industry) EPSRC Grand Challenge consortium in 2005 and has contributed to remedi achieving three world

firsts in automated cell culture, including production in a CompacT CellBase of a clinical grade neuronal stem cell line.