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The Clínica Universitaria de Navarra (CUN) belongs to the University of Navarra and it is located in Pamplona. It has established a national and international reputation in a wide field of medicine
and biotechnology. More than 1300 qualified personnel work in several departments, one of them is the Laboratory of Cellular Therapy. The laboratory performs an active research program in the areas of:
- Genetic susceptibility to cancer.
- Handling of cellular products.
- Markers for cellular prediction.
Together with Pharmacology, Medicine and Biology Faculties, the CUN gives a big effort to technology innovation, with R+D projects about neuroscience, genetic therapy, oncology. One area of
particularly strong interest has been micro instrumentation systems for performing biological and chemical analysis. Within this area of microanalysis, there has been significant interest in developing micro systems
for interfacing with viable cells. Interfacing micro engineered systems with biological cells are interesting for many reasons including: 1) enabling fundamental scientific studies of cells, 2) the development of
pharmacological screening techniques, 3) the development of long term interfaces for bio-computing, and 4) the development of bio-sensing systems. Once drawn into the problem of interfacing biological cells with
micro-engineered systems, one of the fundamental problems to resolve is manipulation of cells within the micro systems.
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