We were glad to welcome Roberta Bilardo for a 2 month-secondment in HCS Pharma in the frame of Nanostem project (Developing NANOmaterials for neural STEM cells drug delivery). She is working as a Marie Curie Fellow Early Stage Researcher in Prof Resmini’s research group at the School of Biological and Read more…
Have you missed our last webinar with Molecular Devices about 3D oncology models? In April, our project leader Elodie was talking about how to establish and image physiologically relevant 3D cancer in vitro models, using BIOMIMESYS Oncology as a surrogate for the tumoral extracellular matrix. Our product BIOMIMESYS® Oncology matrix Read more…
Please feel free to follow us in these conferences: on Thursday 27th, we will attend the virtual Joint Meeting of the French and German Societies for Matrix Biology. Let’s talk about BIOMIMESYS technology (poster n°105, poster session 2) and BIOMIMESYS Adipose Tissue in particular (poster n°97, poster session 1)! You Read more…
It was a great pleasure to present our technology BIOMIMESYS for relevant 3D cell cultures, and its applications in oncology field in the frame of ONCOLille seminars. All the questions and discussions at the end of our presentation convinced us that BIOMIMESYS is of great interest to oncology researchers, in Read more…
Nous sommes heureux de vous annoncer que le Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche a accordé à HCS Pharma l’agrément au Crédit d’Impôt Recherche (CIR) jusqu’en 2023, en regard de nos activités de R&D. For non-french readers, the CIR (Research Tax Credit) concept is explain here. Our customers can Read more…
We are glad to share with you confocal microscopy pictures showing the interactions between two proteins (complexes are the red spots) at the surface of breast cancer cells (MDA-MB-231) cultivated in 3D in BIOMIMESYS matrix. This was made possible by using proximity ligation assay (PLA). The cell nuclei are in Read more…
Clinicians and researchers worldwide are actively studying the mechanisms governing the infection of humans by SARS-CoV-2 and its consequences on their health, with the objective is to find effective therapies. We all aknowledge their important role in the current crisis – and in preventing future ones! While respiratory symptoms are Read more…
On the occasion of the breast cancer awareness month, HCS Pharma is willing to thank all researchers working in the field to better understand the pathophysiology of disease, with the objective to find more efficient anti-cancer therapies. We would like to warmly thank the researchers with whom we are collaborating Read more…
This summer, Vitali et al. published an article in the Open Access Journal Cancers in which they assessed anticancer combination to treat neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) using in vitro models (2D + 3D cultures in BIOMIMESYS hydroscaffolds). A NET arises in the specialized cells of the neuroendocrine system, which have traits of Read more…
Just before Covid-19 pandemic crisis widely spread to France, we attended the User Meeting organized by Molecular Devices in Hilton Garden Inn Leiden (Oegstgeest, Netherlands). We enjoyed the programme, gathering a variety of topics but with high content analysis/screening as a common technique to answer diverse scientific questions. On the Read more…
We will give a presentation next week (on Tuesday, 10th of March 2020) at the High-Content Cellular Imaging User meeting organized by our partner Molecular Devices, which will take place in Leiden (Netherlands). It is a great pleasure for us to attend the meeting, and to talk about the applications, Read more…
We are happy to tell you that HCS Pharma, SMMiL-E team (Seeding Microsystems in Medecine in Lille – European-Japanese Technologies against Cancer, CNRS UMI-2820 LIMMS/IIS) and Institut d’Electronique, de Micro-Electronique et de Nanotechnologie (IEMN) have successfully applied to a LabCom grant (‘COMmon LABoratory’)! A LabCom aims at gathering two entities Read more…
Nathalie and Elodie were in Marseille last week for BioFit event, where we had a booth under Clubster NHL (Nutrition-Health-Longevity) Pavilion: We would like to thank all the participants and collaborators who came to see us… We really enjoyed spending these 2 days with our neighbours from InEye-Pharma and ImmuneInsight: Read more…
Nathalie and Elodie will be present in Marseille for BioFit event next week! Indeed, HCS Pharma has a booth in Clubster NSL’s pavilion (number I20). Just stop by 🙂 It will be a pleasure to talk to you about the innovative 3D cell culture matrix BIOMIMESYS® and our related services Read more…
Last week, our study director Elodie was in Rennes to participate in NutrEvent! We had a booth there, under NSL Clubster pavilion (Lille Northern France Health and Nutrition clubster). It was a pleasure for her to present our activities in imaging and our 3D cell culture products to the visitors! Read more…
Elodie is waiting for you on the first floor at Nutr’event 2019! HCS Pharma stand is n° D6/2, on Clubster NHL pavilion. She will be glad to discuss with you about: our in vitro tests for the objectivation of your claims on human cells (e.g. nutraceutical, dermocosmetic claims) our innovative Read more…
With more than 25 countries represented, NutrEvent is THE place to be for business and innovation in Food, Nutrition and Health. It will take place next week in Rennes congress centre (Couvent des Jacobins), on the 22nd and 22rd of October. Our stand will be on Eurasanté Pavilion (Level 1 Read more…
Last week we were glad to attend the kick-off meeting of MIMLIVEROnChip, funded by the french National Agency for Research (ANR). It was held in UTC Compiègne, and the project is coordinated by Pr Cecile Legallais (BIOMÉCANIQUE ET BIOINGÉNIERIE (BMBI Laboratory) – UMR CNRS 7338). This project aims at developing Read more…
Last week we were glad to attend TERMIS-EU workshop in Nantes, dealing with 3D bioprinting in cancer research. There we presented 3 posters – that you can find on our website! – about BIOMIMESYS® product range, about iPSC-derived hepatocytes in BIOMIMESYS® Liver, and about BIOMIMESYS® for organ-on-chip systems… Moreover, we Read more…
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is known as a molecular network of macromolecules present in all solid tissues (Figure 1), which plays an important role in the growth, migration and differentiation of cells. This ECM is part of a complex and plastic microenvironment in health and disease: its composition and physical Read more…
We were invited at the workshop organized by SMILL-E (Seeding Microsystems in Medecine in Lille – European-Japanese Technologies against Cancer) and Yncrea during MedFit event last week. This great workshop was about Digital and Micro systems for LifeTECH. Elodie was there to talk about innovative technologies for the screening of Read more…
Elodie, Véronique et Océane ont profité d’un moment très sympathique – et ensoleillé – lors du barbecue du parc Eurasanté ce midi… Merci à tous, et bon week-end 🙂
Last week we were pleased to attend the founding congress of STCM (Société de Toxicologie Cellularie et Moléculaire), which was held in FIAP Jean Monnet (Paris). The topic was “Toxicology towards the 3rd dimension“. With a wide variety of talks from academic laboratories and from the industry, the content was Read more…