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Overview
SYNOPSIS is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions funded project aimed at developing an innovative organ-on-chip platform to study breast and prostate cancer metastases in bone tissue. The project integrates advanced microscopy and impedance optical-deformability cytometry (IODC) and artificial intelligence (AI) to investigate cancer cell behavior and therapy response.
Objectives
1. Organ-on-chip platform: design, fabrication, and testing of the microphysiological system, MPS, including the culturing of bone and cancer cells under fluid shear stress conditions and the administration of chemotherapeutic agents.
2. IODC: design, fabrication, and testing of the module.
3. Data acquisition: TLM videos of the cells in the MPS and IODC measurements.
4. Data Analysis: optimise processing strategies for TLM and IODC data to leverage the various signals available for evaluating therapy efficacy.