Flagship Project 2

Safety CQA

Rapid critical quality attributes for safety of cell sources and cell therapy products, informing process analytic technologies and speeding product release

What ?

Rapid critical quality attributes for safety of cell sources and cell therapy products, informing process analytic technologies and speeding product release.

Why ?

Safety of cell therapy products is paramount in the process development and regulatory approval process. If the first goal is to do no harm, the basic expectation is that the medicine is free from contamination including microorganisms that occur naturally in the laboratory space and equipment used to manufacture the cell products. Here, regulatory science and engagement also plays a role, since product safety is a public health concern and the regulatory bodies sets the bar for what must be measured and / or reported.

What we do ?

FP2 focuses on novel approaches to rapidly detect contaminants, microbial and viral particles, in cells therapy products. We plan to develop multiple approaches and detection technologies in order to tailor for different cell therapeutic applications.

Highlights

New contamination-detection test to improve T-cell therapy

The people behind SMART CAMP: James Strutt, Senior Postdoctoral Researcher

Intra-CREATE Seed Collaboration Grant 2022

Electrostatic microfiltration enriches low-abundance bloodborne pathogens and improves downstream detection performance

Rapid Digital Crispr Approach (RADICA)

SMART Researchers Develop Method for Rapid, Accurate Detection of Viruses

Publications

Y. Liu (SMART), J. Raymond (SMART), X. Wu (SMART), P. Chua (SMART), S. Ling SMART), C. C. Chan (SMART), C. Chan (SMART), J. Loh (SMART), M. Song (Ng Ann Poly), M. Ong (Ng Ann Poly), P. Ho (SMART), M. E. McBee (SMART), S. Springs (MIT/SMART), H. Yu (NUS) and J. Han (MIT/SMART),

Electrostatic Microfiltration (EM) Enriches and Recovers Viable Microorganisms at Low-abundance in Large-volume Samples and Enhances Downstream Detection

Lab Chip, 2024, DOI: 10.1039/D4LC00419A.; Aug 19, 2024
2024

SMART CAMP Authors

Linwei He (NTU), Jerome Tan (NTU), Shi Yan Ng (ASTAR-IMCB), King Ho Holden Li (NTU), Jongyoon Han (MIT/SMART), Sing Yian Chew (NTU), and Han Wei Hou (NTU)

Label-Free Impedance Analysis of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Spinal Cord Progenitor Cells for Rapid Safety and Efficacy Profiling

Adv. Mater. Technol., 2400589; Jul 05, 2024
2024

SMART CAMP Authors

Arjav Shah (MIT/SMART), Shakul Pathak (MIT), Kun Li (SMART), Slaven Garaj (NUS), Martin Z. Bazant (MIT), Ankur Gupta (University of Colorado), Patrick S. Doyle*

A universal approximation for conductance blockade in thin nanopore membranes

Nano Letters 24, no. 16 (2024): 4766-4773. ; Mar 04, 2024
2024

SMART CAMP Authors

Xiaolin Wu (SMART), Xuanming Lou (NUS), Hanzhang Zhou (NUS), Joshua Jebaraj Raymond (SMART), Leng Gek Kwang (NUS), Francesca Yi Teng Ong (NUS), Stacy L. Springs (MIT/SMART), Hanry Yu (NUS/SMART))

Detection and absolute quantification biosensing tools for food authentication: CRISPR/Cas, digital CRISPR and beyond

Trends in Food Science & Technology, Volume 145, p. 104349; Mar 01, 2024
2024

SMART CAMP Authors

James P. B. Strutt (SMART), Meenubharathi Natarajan (SMART), Elizabeth Lee (SMART), Denise Bei Lin Teo (SMART), Wei-Xiang Sin (SMART), Faye Ka-Wai Cheung (SMART), Marvin Chew (SMART), Khaing Thazin (SMART), Paul W. Barone (MIT), Jacqueline M. Wolfrum (MIT), Rohan B. H. Williams (NUS), Scott A. Rice (NTU), Stacy L. Springs (MIT),

Machine-learning based detection of adventitious microbes in T-cell therapy cultures using long read sequencing

ASM Microbiology Spectrum (Published online); Aug 30, 2023
2023

SMART CAMP Authors

Kun Li (SMART), Arjav Shah (MIT/SMART), Rajesh Kumar Sharma (NUS), Raymond Adkins (UCSB), Tihomir Marjanovic (NUS), Patrick S. Doyle (MIT/SMART), Slaven Garaj (NUS)

Metrology of Individual Small Viruses

Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2300385 ; Aug 17, 2023
2023

SMART CAMP Authors

Jiayi Huang, Liang Cui, Meenubharathi Natarajan, Paul W. Barone, Jacqueline M. Wolfrum, Yie Hou Lee, Scott A. Rice, and Stacy L. Springs

The ratio of nicotinic acid to nicotinamide as a microbial biomarker for assessing cell therapy product sterility

Molecular Therapy: Methods & Clinical Development, 25, pp. 410-424; Jun 01, 2022
2022

SMART CAMP Authors

Xiaolin Wu , Cheryl Chan, Stacy L. Springs, Yie Hou Lee, Timothy K. Lu, Hanry Yu

A warm start digital CRISPR/Cas-based method for the quantitative detection of nucleic acids

Analytica Chimia Acta, 1196, 339494; Mar 01, 2022
2022

SMART CAMP Authors

Xiaolin Wu, Joshua K. Tay, Chuan Keng Goh, Cheryl Chan, Yie Hou Lee, Stacy L. Springs, De Yun Wang, Kwok Seng Loh, Timothy K. Lu, Hanry Yu

Digital CRISPR-based method for the rapid detection and absolute quantification of nucleic acids

Biomaterials, 274, 120876; Jul 01, 2021
2021

SMART CAMP Authors

Rajesh Kumar Sharma, Ishita Agrawal, Liang Dai, Patrick Doyle, Slaven Garaj

DNA Knot Malleability in Single-Digit Nanopores

Nano Letters, 21 (9), pp. 3772-3779; Mar 04, 2021
2021

SMART CAMP Authors

Conference Presentations

Xiaolin Wu, Joshua Raymond, Cheryl Chan, Yaoping Liu, Yie Hou Lee, Timothy Lu, Stacy Springs, Hanry Yu

"Accelerating cell therapy safety: rapid and accurate absolute quantification of adventitious agents using digital CRISPR approaches and beyond ", 15TH STEM CELL SOCIETY SINGAPORE SYMPOSIUM 2023; "STEM CELL INNOVATIONS IN RESEARCH AND HEALTHCARE", Nov 29, 2023-Dec 01, 2023, Singapore

SMART CAMP Authors

2023

Shruthi Pandi Chelvam, Alice Ng Jie Ying, Huang Jiayi, Elizabeth Lee, Derrick Yong, Rajeev Ram, Stacy Springs, Rohan B.H. Williams

"Anomaly Detection for Microbial Contamination in Mesenchymal Stromal Cell Culture ", 15TH STEM CELL SOCIETY SINGAPORE SYMPOSIUM 2023; "STEM CELL INNOVATIONS IN RESEARCH AND HEALTHCARE", Nov 29, 2023-Dec 01, 2023, Singapore

SMART CAMP Authors

2023

Xiaolin Wu, Joshua Raymond, Cheryl Chan, Yaoping Liu, Yie Hou Lee, Timothy Lu, Stacy Springs*, Hanry Yu*.

"Accelerating biomanufacturing safety: rapid and accurate absolute quantification of adventitious agents using digital CRISPR approaches", Recent Advances in Fermentation Technology (RAFT15), Oct 29, 2023-Nov 01, 2023, Naples, FL, USA.

SMART CAMP Authors

2023

Yaoping Liu, Patrina Weilin Chua, Sharon Yan Han Ling, Joshua Raymond, James Strutt, Cheryl Siew Choo Chan, Peiying Ho, Megan Mcbee, Rohan Williams, Stacy L. Springs and Jongyoon Han

"Electrostatic microfiltration-based enrichment of low-abundance bacteria from large-volume samples improves the detection performances of amplication-free Nanopore sequencing", microTAS 2023, , Oct 15, 2023-Oct 19, 2023, Katowice, Poland

SMART CAMP Authors

2023

Xiaolin Wu, Joshua Jebaraj Raymond, Yaoping Liu, Alexander Jeremias Odermatt, Wei-Xiang Sin, Denise Teo, Inn Chuan Ng, Michael Birnbaum, Timothy Lu, Jongyoon Han, Stacy Springs* and Hanry Yu*.

"Multiplex Detection of Low Abundance Live Microorganisms Contamination in CAR-T cell manufacture using a Quantitative Digital Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification Method", 2023 Annual Conference of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES2023), Oct 11, 2023-Oct 14, 2023, Seattle, WA, USA.

SMART CAMP Authors

2023

Xiaolin Wu, Joshua Raymond, Cheryl Chan, Yaoping Liu, Yie Hou Lee, Timothy Lu, Stacy Springs, Hanry Yu

"Accelerating cell therapy safety: rapid and accurate absolute quantification of adventitious agents using digital CRISPR approaches and beyond", Singapore Cell & Gene Therapy Conference 2023, Aug 04, 2023-Aug 05, 2023, Singapore

SMART CAMP Authors

2023

Joshua Raymond, Xiaolin Wu, Yaoping Liu, Alexander Jeremias Odermatt, Wei-Xiang Sin, Denise Teo, Michael Birnbaum, Timothy Lu , Jongyoon Han, Stacy Springs, Hanry Yu

"Multiplex Detection of Low Abundance Live Microorganisms Contamination in CAR-T cell manufacture using a Quantitative Digital Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification Method", Singapore Cell & Gene Therapy Conference 2023, Aug 04, 2023-Aug 05, 2023, Singapore

SMART CAMP Authors

2023

Cheryl CHAN, Joanne LOH, Wei-Xiang SIN, Denise TEO, Michael BIRNBAUM, Rohan WILLIAMS, Stacy L. SPRINGS

"One-day Cell-free Viral RNA Test for Detecting Adventitious Viruses and Endogenous Viral Reactivation", Singapore Cell & Gene Therapy Conference 2023, Aug 04, 2023-Aug 05, 2023, Singapore

SMART CAMP Authors

2023

Yaoping Liu, Sharon Yan Han Ling, Patrina Wei Lin Chua, Joshua Raymond, Xiaolin Wu, James Strutt, Peiying Ho, Megan Mcbee, Rohan Williams, Stacy L. Springs, Timothy K. Lu and Jongyoon Han

"Electrostatic microfiltration-based enrichment of low-abundance bacteria from large-volume samples improves the detection performances of digital PCR and sequencing", ECCMID 2023 the 33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases), Apr 15, 2023-Apr 18, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark

SMART CAMP Authors

2023

Alice Ng, Jiayi Huang, Liang Cui, Joshua Raymond, Meenubharathi Natarajan, Yie Hou Lee, Stacy L. Springs

"Detection of microbial contaminations using nicotinic acid to nicotinamide ratio as a critical quality attribute to determine sterility in cell therapy products", 14th Stem Cell Society Singapore Symposium 2022, Dec 07, 2022-Dec 09, 2022, Singapore

SMART CAMP Authors

2022

Cheryl Chan (SMART), Rohan Williams (NTU), Stacy L. Springs (MIT)

"Extracellular RNA Biomarkers for the Detection of Adventitious Virus Infection of Cells", 14th Stem Cell Society Singapore Symposium 2022, Dec 07, 2022-Dec 09, 2022, Singapore

SMART CAMP Authors

2022

Joshua Raymond (SMART), Xiaolin Wu (SMART), Yaoping Liu (SMART), Jongyoon Han (MIT), Timothy Lu (MIT), Hanry Yu (NUS)

"Rapid sterility testing of cell therapy products using a multiplex digital Loop-mediated isothermal amplification", 14th Stem Cell Society Singapore Symposium 2022, Dec 07, 2022-Dec 09, 2022, Singapore

SMART CAMP Authors

2022

Kun Li (SMART), Arjav Shah (MIT), Patrick Doyle (MIT), Slaven Garaj (NUS)

"Nanopore tomography fingerprinting of viral particles in cell therapeutics", 14th Stem Cell Society Singapore Symposium 2022, Dec 07, 2022-Dec 09, 2022, Singapore

SMART CAMP Authors

2022

James P. B. Strutt (SMART), Meenubharathi Natarajan (SMART), Wei Xiang Sin (SMART), Elizabeth Lee (SMART), Paul W. Barone (MIT), Jacqueline M. Wolfrum (MIT), Rohan B. H. Williams (NTU), Scott A. Rice (NTU), Stacy L. Springs (MIT)

"Machine-learning based detection of adventitious agents in T cell therapy cultures using long read sequencing", 14th Stem Cell Society Singapore Symposium 2022, Dec 07, 2022-Dec 09, 2022, Singapore

SMART CAMP Authors

2022

Yaoping Liu (SMART), Joshua Raymond (SMART), Xiaolin Wu (SMART), Stacy L. Springs (MIT), Timothy K. Lu (MIT), Hanry Yu (NUS) and Jongyoon Han (MIT, SMART)

"Electrostatic Microfiltration Enriches Low-abundance Bacteria and Improves Downstream Detection", Micro Total Analysis Systems (MicroTAS 2022), Oct 23, 2022-Oct 27, 2022, Hangzhou, China

SMART CAMP Authors

2022

Cheryl Chan (SMART), Rohan Williams (SCELSE), Stacy L. Springs (MIT)

"Detecting Adventitious Virus Infection of Cells Using Extracellular RNA Biomarkers", SDCT-REMEDIS Cell Therapy Conference, Jun 23, 2022-Jun 24, 2022, Virtual (Singapore)

SMART CAMP Authors

2022

Arjav Shah (MIT), Kun Li (SMART), Slaven Garaj (NUS), Patrick S. Doyle (MIT)

"Nanopore Tomography for Quantitative Assessment of fd bacteriophage diameter", Solid State to BioPhysics X, Jun 11, 2022-Jun 18, 2022, Dubrovnik, Croatia

SMART CAMP Authors

2022

Kun Li (SMART), Arjav Shah*(MIT), Patrick S. Doyle (MIT), Slaven Garaj (NUS)

"Single-particle Methods on Quantitative Assessment of Geometrical Parameters of Small Viruses", Solid State to BioPhysics X, Jun 11, 2022-Jun 18, 2022, Dubrovnik, Croatia

SMART CAMP Authors

2022

Chelvam, S. P. (SMART), Lee, Elizabeth (SMART), Huang, J (SMART), Wu, Y. (A*STAR-BTI), Abdul Rahim (A*STAR-BTI), Rajeev Ram, R. (MIT), Yong, D. (A *STAR-SIMTech), & Springs, S. (MIT)

" Anomaly detection for microbial contamination in mesenchymal stromal cell culture", ISCT: Cytotherapy 2022, Process development and manufacturing, May 04, 2022-May 07, 2022, San Francisco, USA

SMART CAMP Authors

2022

Jiayi Huang (SMART), Thiara Sana Ahmed (NUS), Maciej Baranski (SMART), Elizabeth Lee (SMART), Shruthi Pandi Chelvam (SMART), Ying Ying Wu (A*STAR-BTI), Rajeev Ram (MIT), Scott Rice (NTU), Derrick Yong (A*STAR-SIMTech), and Stacy Springs (MIT)

"Machine Learning-Aided At-Line Detection of Bacterial marker NA for Cell Manufacturing", Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science 2021, Nov 01, 2021-Nov 04, 2021, Virtual, Washington, DC United States

SMART CAMP Authors

2021