This webinar discusses a standardized whole-blood culture and stimulation system and its application to a range of multi-center immune response studies.

Our speaker, Darragh Duffy, Scientific Manager of the LabEx Milieu Interieur consortium at the Institut Pasteur, shares details of several projects using the TruCulture whole-blood syringe-based system, which permits point-of-care standardized immune stimulation.

Dr. Duffy's team recently completed a multi-center clinical study in seven Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies (FOCIS) Centers of Excellence across Europe to directly compare TruCulture to conventional peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) methods. The study found that the ex vivo TruCulture procedure preserved physiological cellular interactions to more accurately reflect the complexities of the human immune system.

Dr. Duffy also shares how his team has applied TruCulture stimulation to the 1,000-donor cohort of the Milieu Interieur consortium, the objective of which is to define the boundaries of a healthy immune response at both the proteomic and transcriptomic level.

Dr. Duffy also discusses a partnership with Myriad RBM to co-develop the 13-analyte OptiMAP Luminex panel to enable the dissection of intrinsic (age, sex), genetic, and environmental factors to diverse immune stimuli at the population level.