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title: "Webinar: Manufacture & co-culture of human iPSC-derived neuronal cell types"
description: Advantages and challenges of manufacturing and co-culturing iPSC-derived neuronal models for disease modeling, assay development and drug testing.
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# [Webinar: Manufacture & co-culture of human iPSC-derived neuronal cell types](https://www.ncardia.com/insights/webinars/webinar-manufacture-co-culture-of-human-ipsc-derived-neuronal-cell-types)

 Written by [Isabel Onofre, PhD](https://www.ncardia.com/insights/webinars/author/isabel-onofre-phd) | November 18, 2021

The development of physiologically relevant human models for neurological diseases remains a challenge for pre-clinical drug discovery. With the emergence of human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-technology, it is now possible to design and manufacture cell types that are critical players in neural disease pathogenesis, such as neurons, astrocytes and microglia. These iPSC-derivatives retain their patient-specific genetic backgrounds and demonstrate clinically relevant phenotypes.

 They, therefore, can serve as human *in vitro* platforms to accelerate the drug development pipeline. A first challenge to implementing iPSCs for drug discovery is the reproducible and large-scale generation of high quality and functional differentiated derivatives. During this webinar we will discuss the advantages and challenges of manufacturing and co-culturing iPSC-derived neuronal models for [disease modeling](https://www.ncardia.com/discovery-services/modeling), assay development and [drug testing](https://www.ncardia.com/discovery-services/screening) purposes.

### In this webinar you will learn:

- The benefits of using iPSC-derived neuronal models for drug discovery
- Key considerations for the large-scale generation of functional human iPSC-derived neuronal cells
- Insights into co-culturing possibilities of iPSC-derived neurons, astrocytes and microglia.

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