Centers of Excellence

These premier research institutions are active users of Vala technology who have generously agreed to provide demonstrations to interested researchers as well as limited testing of the Vala platform.

Please contact Vala directly if interested in a demonstration.

Broad Institute
of MIT and Harvard

INSTRUMENT USES

KIC (calcium and voltage response) with electrical pacing, primarily cardiomyocytes.

Imaging for counts and protein expression of subcellular compartments using z-stacks and synthetic focus at 40x.

Stanford University

INSTRUMENT USES

Screening for drug dose response using KIC (calcium), electrically paced and unpaced, on cardiomyocytes. Also measurement of contractility of cells.

Effects of hypoxia using KIC (calcium).

Northwestern University

INSTRUMENT USES

Drug dose response using KIC (calcium), paced and unpaced, in cardiomyocytes.

Imaging of live-cells over the course of days to quantify rate of cell proliferation, differentiation.

Baylor College of Medicine

INSTRUMENT USES

Screening of fixed cell plates for protein expression, localization.

Imaging for counts and protein expression of subcellular compartments (punctate spots, arrays) using z-stacks and synthetic focus at 40x

University of California San Francisco

INSTRUMENT USES

Diagnostics and therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.

KIC (calcium) and FRET

Sunnybrook Research Institute
(Toronto)

INSTRUMENT USES

Imaging of live and fixed cells for protein expression and localization.

Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute Innovation Centre (Australia)

INSTRUMENT USES

KIC, electrical stimulation and liquid-handling — effects of acute compound addition on calcium and voltage responses in native and iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes under control and disease conditions.