- Duration: 8 months
- Year: 2016
- Participants: Stemtek Therapeutics S.L. + Lasalle Berrozpe
- Biotechnology and health
Project objectives
A company dedicated to the supply of healthy stem cells and cancer wants to get a higher quality product, so that pharmaceutical laboratories can test them.
You would like your product to oscillate between certain sizes, optimal for further testing; in addition, he would also like the shape of these to be rounder and not present imperfections.
Lasalle Berrozpe develops an idea that consists of a sieve designed specifically to work with fluids, This sieve also contained a siphon system that generates a reflux in the hope that the fluid mechanical properties possessed by the elements we normally handle would be interpolable to particles as small as is the case of cells.
Tasks performed
- Devise and create a first sketch of the sieve with a siphon system to generate a reflux of the fluid elements.
- Perform a validation test in the presence of the customer to verify the system.
- Analyze the result of the test and measure under the microscope the size and shape of the cells.
- Design the reactor in charge of the process, (with LSG polymers) to guarantee the life of the cells, and with interchangeable filters that facilitate their washing and maintenance, and also the health of the cells.
