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The Gibco™ CTS™ Rotea™ system story-a case study of industry-academia collaboration
Anqi Li1,2, David James3, Rebecca Lim4,5
1The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
Abstract:
The Gibco™ CTS™ Rotea™ Counterflow Centrifugation System is an automated cell processing device developed for manufacturing cell therapy products. The developer (Scinogy Pty Ltd) collaborated with Thermo Fisher Scientific to successfully launch the product in late 2020, completing product development from concept to international sales in <3years. This article describes the origin story of the Rotea system and how a chance meeting between a co-inventor of the Rotea system and an academic cell biologist took the invention from a garage workshop to the world stage. We describe the contribution of academic research to the innovation value chain and importance of academic institutions being industry-ready to support such collaborations.

