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At Vinmec Hi-Tech Center, our mission is to elevate the standard of care for Vietnamese patients and drive advancements in precision medicine. We are committed to delivering distinct and significant value to the clinical programs at Vinmec Hospitals. Through pioneering technologies and scientific expertise, we aim to transform the healthcare landscape and establish ourselves as the foremost leader in precision medicine in Vietnam.
Vinmec Tissue Bank (VTB)

Established in October 2019 based on the umbilical Cord Blood Bank (operating since March 2014). VTB is a non-profit multi-tissue bank embedded Vinmec Healthcare System. Licensed by the Ministry of Health on February 26, 2020, VTB is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities to receive, process, preserve, store, and transport tissue and cell samples. 

VTB collaborates with domestic and international organizations for tissue and cell exchange, supporting medical treatment, training, and research in biomedicine, regenerative medicine, and precision medicine. VTB aims to meet global standards with core values of "Creativity, Accountability, Reliability, and Excellence." 

Unit of Genetic Medicine (UGM)

Is one of the three departments of Vinmec HiTech Center. UGM specializes in innovative products and services for disease prevention, diagnosis, monitoring, screening, and treatment. Committed to providing top-tier genetic testing services, UGM supports clinicians and benefits patients, laying a robust foundation for precision medicine. UGM features world-class genetic laboratories certified by ISO 15189:2012 by BoA Vietnam to ensure high quality service and accurate test results. 

Department of Cell Manufacturing

Research and Application:

- Apply cutting-edge techniques to develop high quality services to make a difference between Vinmec and other major centers in the country.

- Focus on applied research and technology transfer with strong collaboration with clinicians in order to apply the latest scientific advancements in clinical practice.

Professional quality and patient safety

- Ensure high quality in serving patients as well as standardize activities of the Center to serve partners inside and outside Vinmec system.

Business and Development

- Expand services on the basis of new technical development, in conjunction with the Business Division, upgrade and expand service packages to provide the best services to customers.

Humans of Department of Cell Manufacturing:

- Experienced specialists and experts with comprehensive technical cell processing for clinical trials training from the EU, USA.

- Joining and sucessfully accomplising the numerous research projects about applied stem cells and immune cells.  

- Numerous scientific articles in the field of cell biology have been published in well-known journals. 

Vision:

Pioneering the development and providing novel cell therapy that is effective and safe, making it more hopeful for patients. 

Department of QC and Quality standards

Vinmec Hi-tech Center was composed of Quality Control laboratory and Quality Management unit.

Quality Control laboratory has a duty to establish a quality control system for cell therapy products at Hi-Tech Center according to international standards for cell therapy such as AABB, ISCT.

Department of QC and Quality standards has been accredited to ISO 15189:2012 for many specialized tests. In particular, we are the first organization to be accredited to ISO 15189:2012 for hematopoietic stem cell enumeration test and T, B, and NK enumeration test using flow cytometry technique. In addition to complying with ISO 15189:2012 standards, our department also participates in many external quality control and inter-laboratory comparison programs to improve quality and technical capacity.

Quality Management unit played role in establishment and coordination with other departments to implement a general quality management system for faculties of Hi-tech Center in compliance with Vinmec Healthcare system standards, referred from JCI standards, with the following main tasks (1) Incident and risk management, (2) Customer satisfaction surveys and complaint handling, (3) Monitoring and improving key quality indicators. In addition, together with other faculties and departments, the quality management department also develops and implements specific quality standards such as AABB and ISO.

 

Vinmec Tissue Bank (VTB)

Receive, process, preserve and store tissue and cell samples;

Supplying tissues and cells to medical facilities, medical research and training facilities;

Supply and exchange of tissues and cells with other tissue banks;

Cooperate with domestic and foreign organizations and individuals in tissue and cell exchange; for the purpose of medical examination, treatment, training, and research in the fields of Biomedicine, Regenerative Medicine, Personalized Medicine/Precision Medicine. 

We help designing clinical decision support solutions regarding cellular and molecular genetic testing

We develop, implement and integrate products with various leading technology companies in healthcare industry to provide datasupported diagnosis in various areas

We believe in the importance of having a clear set of priorities to guide us through a turbulent and ever changing environment.  

Apply NGS technology in preimplantation screening/diagnosis and assisted reproduction

Apply NGS technology in noninvasive diagnosis/screening (prenatal diagnosis/screening, oncology, health scan)

Apply NGS technology in diagnosis of rare diseases, complex diseases and mtDNA diseases

Improve quality of service using goldstandard molecular technologies (PCR, realtime PCR, microarray, Sanger sequencing, Immunohistology Imaging) for diagnosis and prognosis  

Develop diagnostic assays with Vinmec trademark for situations of emergency (infectious diseases epidemics, emergency population screening, ect.)

Consulting services accompany customers throughout the testing process

Pre-test consultation: Test consultation suitable to each need and doctor's instructions, saving costs and time. Share about the limitations and meaning of genetic tests.

Test results consulting: helps customers understand the meaning of test results, the data displayed on the test result report, the meaning of positive/negative/low risk/high risk conclusions / gene mutation detected/gene mutation not detected/significance unknown,...

In-depth genetic counseling: Analyze family medical history and clinical manifestations, advise on treatment options, medical intervention plans,...

Connect to treatment, support treating doctors in analyzing medical records 

Department of Cell Manufacturing

- Isolating and expansion of stem cells from umbilical cord, bone marrow, adipose tissue and dental pulp for cryopreservation and disease treatments

- Processing apheresis product and bone marrow harvest for haematopoietic stem cell transplantation  

- Manufacturing therapeutic exosomes from adipose-derived and umbilical cord-derived stem cells for cosmetic dermatology (skin rejuvenation treatments, hair growth, wound healing, …)

- Autologous immune enhancement therapy (NK and T cells) boosting immunity supports solid cancer treatments (lung cancer, breast cancer, colon cancer, …) 

Department of QC and Quality standards,

Quality Control laboratory focused on setting up examining to determined the safety and particular properties of cell lines:

- Safety evaluation: mycoplasma detection and endotoxin quantitative

- purity, cell count, cell viability test

- Immuno - phenotyping analyze of  immune cells (lymphocytes, T, B, and NK) and stem cell  (HSC, MSC) lines

- Immune and cytokines – profiling  

- Potency assay like cytokines, CFU test

- Cytokine/ growth factors quantitative

- lymphocyte transformation and basophil activation test for drug allergy diagnose 

Vinmec Tissue Bank (VTB)

VTB meets international standards, with clean rooms monitored and colntrolled for pressure, humidity, and temperature. Samples are stored in specialized, modern, safe and secure ultralow storage systems using clinical-grade nitrogen. The monitoring systems provide real-time alerts for any irregularities, and access is restricted to authorized personnel. 

Laboratory Air Control System:

Laboratories have independent air control system

3 level filtration of incoming air

AHUs for different areas of operation

HEPA filtered air

20 volumes air changes per hour, 30/70 fresh to recycled air

Scheduled maintenance

Clean room Facility:

Unidirectional material flow: Clean to dirty  

Passboxes between all rooms

Central Monitoring System:

24 hour monitoring of facility temperature, humidity, pressure, air conditioner, CO2 incubators and liquid nitrogen storage tanks.

 

UGM applies and develops four key technology groups: Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS), Microarray, Molecular Biotechnology, and Cytogenetic Technology. We are continuously expanding our range of innovative technologies to contribute to the excellent care of Vinmec Healthcare system and satisfy the demands for Vietnam and regional markets of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment support. 

Department of Cell Manufacturing

The state of the art equipment and clean room system in accordance with ISO 14644-1 (Class 6, Class 7 and Class 8) ensure optimal condition for processing and cultivating cells. 

Department of QC and Quality standards,

Department of QC and Quality standards, Vinmec Hi-tech Center owned the most up-to-date equipments which is considered as the most mordern facility in Vietnam and Region:

- The Beckman Navios Flow ctytometry with 3 lazers/ 10 colors, Beckman Coulter

- The BD FACS Lyric with 3 lazers/ 12 colors, BD Biosciences  

- The STEMvisionTM, Automated and standardized colony counting for the hematopoietic colony-forming unit (CFU) assay, Stemcell Technologies

- The Endosafe-PTS system for Endotoxin/Pyrogen Testing, Charles river

- The Lucetta™ Luminometer for mycoplasma detection, Lonza

- The Microscope IX73 Phase Contrast Fluorescence and micromanipulator, Olympus 

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