Cell Culture Lab | Medical and Life Sciences

Research for greater animal welfare

Cell biology work is essential in research, medicine and biotechnology for the development of new drugs against diseases such as cancer.

In the Cell Culture Lab at Furtwangen University, students can learn everything from basic methods to highly complex three-dimensional tissue models.

These can be used as alternative methods to animal testing and therefore contribute to the reduction of animal suffering in research

Purpose of lab

Internships/project, study or thesis work in the Internal link opens in the same window:Applied Biology and Internal link opens in the same window:Molecular and Technical Medicine degree programmes
Teaching laboratory for cell culture techniques
Development of cell culture models as an alternative method to animal testing
Personalised medicine: pharmaceutical testing on highly complex cell cultures from patient samples

Equipment

4 sterile benches with 6 workstations
2 incubators for cell cultures
Cryostat, kerosene embedding and microtome for tissue sections
Fluorescence microscope
Fluorescence microscope with incubation chamber for long-term experiments
3D printer for tissue printing
Low pressure pump for microfluidics
Luminex for analysing released analytes from 3D organotypic cell cultures
OCT (optical coherence tomography) for 3D analysis and visualisation of microspheroids

Projects

Part of the 3R network: Development of cell culture models as an alternative method to animal testing
3D organotypic cell cultures
Skin model for wound healing experiments
Tumor microenvironment models with different tumor cell types
Blood-brain barrier model for pharmaceutical testing
Tumor cell metastasis in the microfluidic system

Useful links

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