PHI partners with University College London to use HoloMonitor in a first clinical research project
Phase Holographic Imaging (PHI) is excited to announce a strategic partnership with University College London (UCL). Under this collaboration, PHI will lend a HoloMonitor® M4FL system for use in an ongoing research project at UCL, which runs alongside a clinical trial. This partnership represents PHI's first direct step in a hospital setting to explore the clinical applications of its innovative technology.
Patrik Eschricht, CEO of PHI, comments:
“Our HoloMonitor system provides detailed cell information to assess the quality of individual cell samples. Imagine a future where researchers can take a patient’s cell sample at the bedside in the hospital and instantly determine its suitability for a clinical trial or cell therapy manufacturing. I believe this is the potential that our cell analysis technology holds.
Imagine, if this is possible, our technology could optimize the efficiency of clinical trials and cell therapy manufacturing processes, reduce costs, and make regenerative medicine more accessible and affordable—we would not use a cell therapy production site to manufacture a treatment that won’t work and would not spend money on samples that won’t be good enough.”
PHI has partnered with UCL, a leading academic institution in England, to provide its latest live cell imaging system, HoloMonitor® M4FL. Through this partnership, PHI takes an active first step in further investigating this enormous potential market in which HoloMonitor products could be positioned directly at patient bedsides in hospitals—however, acknowledging that understanding the full possibilities is still at a very early stage.
"I’m very pleased with our new collaboration with UCL, which allows us to explore more the possibilities of our QPI technology for clinical applications and understand how it could make advanced regenerative treatments more accessible and cost-effective," Eschricht added.
For additional information, please contact:
Lisa Bodily
E-mail: ir@phiab.com
Web: www.phiab.com – Live cell imaging & analysis
About PHI
Phase Holographic Imaging (PHI) is a medical technology company that develops and markets its non-invasive time-lapse imaging instruments for long-term quantitative analysis of living cells. The foundation of PHI’s current commercial HoloMonitor® products is Quantitative Phase Imaging (QPI) technology — an innovative approach to cell quality evaluation. QPI offers detailed analysis of cell characteristics without harming the cells, avoiding the limitations of traditional measurement methods. PHI is actively focusing on business development to expand from pre-clinical research to the clinical market and the emerging regenerative medicine field. PHI envisions transforming live cell analysis and establishing QPI as a standard for cell quality control, making future cell therapies safe, affordable, and accessible for patients. PHI is based in Lund, Sweden, Boston, MA and Winston-Salem, NC.