Two researchers with connections to Cornell’s Department of Statistics and Data Science are collaborators on a newly awarded $1.85 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to develop a device to advance tissue culture research.
David Matteson, associate chair of the Department of Statistics and Data Science and professor of statistics and data science and social statistics, and Laurie Tupper, Ph.D. ’16, an associate professor of statistics at Mount Holyoke College, are among three outside collaborators working with Applied BioPhysics, a small manufacturing firm based out of Troy, NY, that was recently awarded a two-year, $1.85 million Small Business Innovation Research grant from NIH.
The team intends to develop and fabricate a device called the Electric Cell-substrate Impedance Sensing (ECIS) Cell Assurance Monitor, which could help researchers verify the identity and characteristics of cultured cells used in their studies and thus ensure better accuracy and reproducible results.