Webinar: Robust human iPSC-derived neuronal and glial in vitro drug discovery assays

"High-throughput in vitro assays to model neurodegeneration with human iPSC-derived neuronal and glial cells"

Isabel Onofre, PhD and Laura Calo, PhD

Despite the great potential of human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), technical and conceptual challenges for disease-specific assay validation often hinder their use during pre-clinical development.
Ncardia has established large-scale manufacturing processes for hiPSC-derived neuronal sub-populations, microglia and astrocytes and has extensively characterized them using high-content imaging, multi-electrode arrays, flow-cytometry, and transcriptome analysis.

In this webinar, we show validated assays with co-culture of neurons, astrocytes and microglia in multiplexed and sensitive platforms where cell viability, autophagy, mitochondrial function, Ca²⁺ oscillations, endoplasmic reticulum stress and synaptic function can be perturbed to model neuro-pathological signatures.
These validated platforms provide ideal tools for the screening of novel therapeutic modalities against neurodegenerative pathologies.

Objectives:
In this webinar you will learn:

1. The benefits and challenges of hiPSC-derived neuronal models
2. How to describe the CNS pathophysiological changes associated with disease
3. Optimized assays that recapitulate disease-specific phenotypes

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• Neurodegenerative disease modeling
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