NEW YORK, Sept. 27 (GenomeWeb News) - Beckman Coulter and the Immune Tolerance Network have opened a core laboratory to develop, standardize, and automate cell-based tests for clinical trials at Beckman's facility in Miami, the company said today.
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Researchers from ITN, Beckman, and investigators from the USand Europeplan to develop and validate new cellular assays of T-cell responses for monitoring immune tolerance in clinical trials. "We believe that Beckman Coulter has a special expertise in these areas and look forward to working with the company in developing a number of these assays," said Hugh Auchincloss, chief operating officer of ITN, in a statement.
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The Immune Tolerance Network, based at the Universityof California, San Francisco, is an international research collaboration with a dozen core facilities.
