The Halo System is designed to remove the Barrett’s epithelium in a short, well tolerated endoscopic (camera test) procedure. This means that the patient can be treated as a day case without the need to be admitted to hospital for surgery.
The entire cost is including medical training is €100,000.
Other equipment that CROSS are fundraising for
Luminex 200 System
The Luminex System is a flexible analyzer based on the principles of flow cytometry that is designed to meet the needs of laboratory medicine and the care of patients, as well being used in the research environment. The system enables you to multiplex (simultaneously measure) up to 100 targets in a single microplate well, using very small sample volumes. The system delivers fast and cost-effective bioassay results on many assay formats including nucleic acid assays, receptor-ligand assays, immunoassays and enzymatic assays.
The system is ideal for the clinical laboratory setting and will be utilised by many research units within the group to measure the levels of various biological targets in human blood as part of ongoing research or clinical trials.
ScanSCope GL
Digitization is revolutionizing medicine. In pathology, after glass slides are digitized, the resulting digital images can be analyzed automatically using complex computer algorithms. Automatic image analysis can help increase productivity through process automation and improve healthcare through standardization and development of new computer-based methods.
Image analysis enables the scientist / medic to:
- Classify and count numerous cells, such as in IHC (ImmunoHistoChemistry) quantification
- Quantify the extent of different stains, to examine the expression level of a particular marker / protein in tumour v’s normal tissue
- Answer questions that are beyond the capabilities of manual microscopy, such as “What is the significance of multiple stains at the cell level and co-localization of stains?”
The system will be used by many researchers in the unit investigating the expression levels of many markers in tumour tissue and relating the level of expression of these markers to clinical parameters such as pathological response, and overall survival.
A Gene Scanner was purchased with funds raised at the 2007 Cross Ball.
Gene Scanner
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