Bioreactor for culture, isolation and collection of exosomes

Educational project

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The present project, developed by the Institute of Systems and Applied Electronics (ISEA) in collaboration with the Cardiocentro Ticino Institute, involved the participation of a student who I was able to build, starting from subsystems and functional blocks, a laboratory prototype of a bioreactor for the production and collection of exosomes, vesicles containing useful sections of mRNA, which can be used for myocardial regenerative medicine.
The device, developed according to a modular architecture, expandable and programmable via convenient graphical interface, constitutes a versatile cell culture station for a variety of laboratory applications in both analytical and research fields.  

For its realization, the student had to deal with various technologies and issues, in particular:
  • Analog and digital electronics
  • Microprogramming
  • Mechanics
  • Biology

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