We are currently using and offering support for the following assays and techniques:

• Cell culture (primary and tumor cell lines, mouse and human)
• Toxicity tests
• Viability tests
• Protein purification - see also Core Service Protein Production
  
• Western Blot analysis, RNA purification
• qPCR analysis
• siRNA & shRNA - see also Core Facility Functional Genomics
• Virus production
• Transfection
• Transduction

For further questions, please contact the CF manager Sonja Schätzlein.

The 6th Call for Proposals was placed with deadline of January 28th 2021. The project evaluation took place on February 18th 2021 in front of our international industry advisory committee.

SPARK Global Meeting: June 11-14th 2020, Helsinki Finland -> cancelled due to Corona Pandemic

This program is based on the highly successful “SPARK” program developed at Stanford University (https://sparkmed.stanford.edu/). See also the SPARK INFO PACKAGE.

Topics covered during our educational seminars included

• High Throughput screening in Academia
• Technology transfer - How to deal with inventions and what Technology Transfer has to do with your day-to-day business (presentation, internal only)
• Intellectual Property
• How to build a Target Product Profile (presentation, internal only)
• Introduction into Medicinal chemistry - How to assess and progress your initial screening hits (presentation, internal only)
• Drug Discovery in Industry (presentation, internal only)
• High Throughput screening in Academia
• Pharmacokinetic/-dynamic/driven Drug Discovery
• Reproducibility crisis, or: why most published research findings are false (presentation, internal only)
• Organ on Chip (presentation, internal only)
• Why can't I be Elon? Challenges of selling complex high-tech products to the world (presentation, internal only)
• Patentability of Life Science Inventions: A comparison between European and US practice (presentation, internal only)
• Transforming research to Business in the area of bioactive compounds: The case of nucleoside analogs (presentation, internal only)

We are always looking for speakers to cover the topics around Drug Development and Technology Transfer. Please contact Sonja Schätzlein for further information.

•    February 27th, 3-8PM: 5th SPARK FLI Project Evaluation (Invitation only)

•    March 11th, 5-7PM: SPARK Educational Forum “Basics of Intellectual Property (IP)”
-> rescheduled for Fall 2020 (October/November, TBA)

•    April 22nd, 5-7PM: SPARK Educational Forum “Medicinal Chemistry and hit to lead optimization”
-> rescheduled for Fall 2020 (September/October, TBA)

•    May rescheduled June 10th, 5-6PM: How to build your Target Product Profile (online webinar)

•    June 12-14th: SPARK Global Annual meeting (Helsinki, Finland)
-> cancelled due to Corona Pandemic

•    July 8th, 5-7PM: SPARK Educational Forum “How to market High Tech Products: Challenges and Pitfalls” (Seminar Room Golgi)

•    July: SPARKees Target Product Profile Presentation (Invitation only)

•    August 26th, 5-7PM: Drug Development in Industry (Seminar Room Golgi or webinar)

•    September (TBA): Educational Forum (Seminar Room Golgi or webinar)

•    October (TBA): SPARKees Project and Milestone update (Invitation only)

•    November (TBA): Educational Forum (Seminar Room Golgi)

•    December 11th, 9am-3pm: SPARK FLI Core Facility Evaluation (Invitation only)

Internal users:
A free sample of the published book, “SPARK: A Practical Guide to Drug Development in Academia”, by Daria Mochly-Rosen and Kevin Grimes will be given to our SPARKees.

"SPARK Info Packet"

External users:
External guests are welcome to join our educational forum series (Wednesday 5-7PM in Golgi). Project presentations are only accessible with signed CDA.

Additional Links:

• About SPARK@Stanford

• SPARK Global

• SPARK's Success

• SPARK Manual

For publications of individual CF members:  publications search