
Forcyte Biotechnologies, Inc. is the first company aiming to tackle diseases of cell mechanobiology by directly screening contractile cell force in an automation-friendly & high-throughput format.
Market:
Forcyte Biotechnologies, Inc. provides predictive disease models and screening technology for disease of cellular mechanobiology and mechanical force generation, which collectively represent hundreds of millions of dollars in annual preclinical R&D expenditures, and billions more in economic burden.
Technology:
Forcyte combines advances in microtechnology and automation to unlock access to cellular force generation as a quantitative metric in high-throughput screening and analysis. We build and deploy assays with direct links to functional pathophysiology that can be utilized by anyone with minimal training to obtain high-quality and functional data on cellular contraction, at the single-cell or multi- cellular levels.

Advantages:
- Automation-friendly (25/96/384-wellplate formats)
- Highly-parallelized (evaluates 100,000s of cells)
- Quantitative readout for cellular force generation
- Single-cell resolution
- No special expertise needed
Development Stage:
- Prototype
Patents Pending:
- Device and method for force phenotyping of cells for high-throughput screening
and analysis; PCT US20170176415A1 -granted on 9/25/18
Select Publications:
- UCLA researchers develop method to accelerate cell force detection | Daily Bruin
- Elastomeric sensor surfaces for high-throughput single-cell force cytometry | Nature
- Device Measures Stiffness of Tens of Thousands of Cells to Screen Drugs for Safety | Medgadget
- Making Micro-Volume Biology Work: Tools, Techniques and Secrets | Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS)
Contact:
Email: Ivan Pushkarsky, ivan@forcytebio.com
Phone: 859-420-4398
Website: forcytebio.com
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