Research groups using label-free cell analysis and RT-DC

Researchers around the world use our systems for label-free cell analysis, imaging cytometry, and real-time deformability cytometry (RT-DC).

Our instruments are installed in universities, Max Planck Institutes, Fraunhofer Institutes, and translational laboratories working on topics such as cell mechanics, cancer biology, immunology, and biophysics.

Many of these groups have published scientific work using RT-DC and label-free cell analysis, contributing to the growing body of research in cellular mechanics.

Worldwide installations of RT-DC and label-free cell analysis systems

Real-time deformability cytometry (RT-DC) and label-free cell analysis systems developed by Zellmechanik Dresden are used by research groups around the world.

Our instruments are installed in universities, biomedical research institutes, and technology centers working in fields such as cell mechanics, cancer research, immunology, and biophysics.

The map below highlights selected locations where our technology is used in scientific research.

World map showing research laboratories using RT-DC and label-free cell analysis systems worldwide

Global research locations using RT-DC and label-free cell analysis systems developed by Zellmechanik Dresden including: Bethesda, Brno, Cambridge, Copenhagen, Dresden, Edinburgh, Erlangen, Erfurt, Glasgow, Greifswald, Göttingen, Heidelberg, Lecce, London, Magdeburg, Saarbrücken and Sydney.

Below are selected laboratories using our technology.

Real-time deformability cytometry system used for label-free cell analysis at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg

Research Group Prof. Julian Thiele

Faculty of Process and Systems Engineering

Institute of Chemistry 

Label-free cell analysis system installed at Masaryk University cancer research lab

Masaryk University

Jaromír Gumulec, M.D., Ph.D., Associate professor

Michal Masařík Research Group: Cancer Research Lab

Microfluidic imaging cytometry system used for label-free cell analysis at University of Salento

University of Salento

Mariafrancesca Cascione, PhD, Assistant Professor

Department of Mathematics and Physics “Ennio De Giorgi”
Nanobiotechnology, Nanomedicine and Nanobioelectronics Laboratory

Real-time deformability cytometry system used for cell therapy analysis at Fraunhofer MEOS

Fraunhofer Center for Microelectronic and Optical Systems for Biomedicine (MEOS) Erfurt

Dr. David M. Smith

Innovation Center for Precision Analysis of Cell Therapy Products (MIC-PreCell)

Label-free cell mechanics measurement system at Saarland University

Universität des Saarlandes

Prof. Dr. Franziska Lautenschläger

Experimentalphysik - zelluläre Biophysik

Imaging cytometry system for mechanical phenotyping at University of Strathclyde

University of Strathclyde

Dr. Melanie Jimenez, Research Fellow and Chancellor’s Fellow

Royal Academy of Engineering  - Biomedical Engineering

RT-DC system at Max Planck Institute for Medical Research Heidelberg

University Heidelberg and Max Planck Institute for Medical Research

Prof. Dr. Kerstin Göpfrich, Max Planck Research Group Leader

Biophysical Engineering Group

Two fully equipped RT-DC systems at the Group for cellular biophysics at the University of Greifswald

University of Greifswald, Cellular Biophysics Group
Prof. Dr. Oliver Otto

Real-time deformability cytometry system used for label-free cell analysis at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light Erlangen

Max Planck Institute for the  science of light, Erlangen

Guck Division

Label-free cell analysis system installed at University of New South Wales Sydney

University of New South Wales, Sydney

Katharina Gaus, Scientia Professor and Head, EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science

Chris Brownlee, Flow Cytometry Scientist, Biological Resources Imaging Laboratory, Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre

Real-time deformability cytometry system used for neurometabolism research at University Hospital Dresden

University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
Neuroimmunological Laboratory
Prof. Dr. med. Tjalf Ziemssen

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