Monrovia, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 06/28/2010 -- Irena Steele, Senior Research Scientist, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will give a presentation on “A High content screening approach for the ABCG2 transporter: Merits of live cell assays.” at 5th Assay and Drug Discovery Technologies Conference to be held this year in San Diego, CA Sept. 20-21, 2010 by GTCbio. Her group has developed a live cell based assay to screen for modulators of the ABCG2 transporter using an isogenic pair of U87 cell lines with one cell line over expressing the transporter and used for screening and the other line used to assess fluorescence enhancement accumulation due to the physico chemical properties of identified modulators and to eliminate them as auto-fluorescent compounds. She will present her findings and discuss the potential application of this approach for the elucidation of the ABCG2 function and regulation.

Also presenting at the Assay and Drug Discovery Technologies are prestigious organizations including Burnham Medical Research Institute, Pfizer, UCSF, AstraZeneca, UCLA, Bristol Myers Squibb, Genentech, National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, Johnson & Johnson, Nexigen GmbH, University of Pennsylvania, Roche, UCD, Abbott, Merck, Novartis (GNF), and other leaders in the Assay and Drug Discovery Technologies industry.

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