IMMs focus in the area of biological and medical diagnostics is the customer specific development of integrated, automated micro systems and components for:

• Medical diagnostics
• Environmental analysis
• Biological security applications
• Food quality control
• Industrial analytics and process control
   

Microfluidics in lab-on-a-chip or micro-total-analysis-systems

With the help of micro technology we at IMM develop efficient biomedical diagnostics systems (lab-on-a-chip or micro total analysis systems) which minimize the number of work steps, need smaller quantities of materials (e.g. reagents) and provide reliable results at the same time. These miniaturized systems allow a realtime analysis in terms of biological organisms (cells, bacteria, viruses, parasites), their building blocks or metabolites (proteins, nucleic acids, metabolites, toxins, etc.) on-site at the point of care or point of use.

We develop systems for:

• on-chip isolation and analysis of germs from solid and liquid samples,
• separation of eukaryotic cells such as human tumour vs. normal cells,
• identification and discrimination of viral, bacterial or eukaryotic organisms,
• isolation and amplification of nucleic acids in general or RNA especially
• purification of single proteins or protein mixtures of pro- or eukaryotes.

Based on our broad know-how spectrum and our substantial experience in the fields of microfluidics, sensor technologies, simulation, fabrication technologies, assembly and packaging we are one of the innovation leaders in the market.