INITIO Cell Ltd

Classical drug discovery uses 2D cell culture coupled with animal testing for preclinical studies. Neither 2D cell culture nor animal testing truly recapitulate the in vivo micro environments of cells in a human body. The paradigm shift is to use 3D cell culture in lab-on-a- chip devices that can faithfully mimic the in vivo conditions. With this modern drug discovery approach, costs can be reduced ten-fold, results can be achieved ten times faster, animal testing can be significantly reduced and personalized medicine can be realized.

Yet, current solutions have problems. At INITIO, we develop patented/patent-pending multi-functional lab-on-a-chip products and assays aimed at drug discovery. Thanks to our lab-on-a-chip products with innovative designs, different types of assays can simultaneously be performed using a single lab-on-a-chip product. Our products also deliver unique assays that no other lab-on-a-chip product on the market can.

We develop lab-on-a-chip products and assays for 3D Cell Culture. We focus on gradients and cell-to-cell interactions.

Invasion-Chemotaxis chip: a Lab-on-chip for invasion and chemotaxis in vitro assays, that can be visualized under microscope.

Distance-Dependent chip: a Lab-on-chip to study cell-cell interaction, depending on their spatial distance. The chip can be imaged under microscope.