IMSTAR S.A.

IMSTAR is a privately owned high-technology company based in Paris, France. At the top of their field, the IMSTAR experts design, manufacture and market automated digital imaging systems in cytopathology & cytogenetics, genetoxicity for drug safety & environmental biomonitoring , Life Sciences research and drug discovery.

The members of the team include key professionals, highly experienced in the different scientific fields: automated systems, biophysics, physics, applied mathematics, molecular genetics, neurosciences and cytology histology.

In 1985, IMSTAR was founded by Dr Françoise Soussaline, currently President, CEO & CSO, as a spin-off from the Biology Department of the French Atomic Energy Commission (Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, CEA).

In 1997, IMSTAR launched the first automated, highly innovative and cost effective Image Cytometer based on Pathfinder™ Technology, associated with a number of Applied Analysis Software modules to facilitate and accelerate research.

Over the past 20 years, IMSTAR has aquired numerous patents and copyrights.

Over 1000 Pathfinder™ systems have been installed in the world to date, including Europe, North America and Asia.

IMSTAR offers complete vertical solutions for fully automated high-throughput cellular analysis in the fields of genotoxicity & environmental toxicity for compound screening & biomonitoring, cytopathology and drug discovery.