That's a wrap for the team at CYTO 2026 in West Palm Beach, FL. Another fantastic conference filled with great science, conversations with customers, and time catching up with colleagues. Ozette had a strong presence this year: between our exhibition booth, a standing-room-only Resolve unmixing commercial tutorial on the final day, a well-attended happy hour we hosted, and countless meetings with customers and partners, the team came home tired but energized.
Going global with Cerba Research
We officially launched our partnership with Cerba Research, a fantastic team of exceptionally strong scientists producing high-quality data. With that launch, our 48-color spectral assay goes global: customers get worldwide reach for their clinical trials, powered by Ozette's platform for data quality and robustness.
What our partners shared
Several partners spoke about their experience with Ozette. In AAPS/ISAC joint translational plenary session, Dr. Tracy from Vir Biotechnology discussed applying the Ozette Discovery platform to biomarker discovery in patients with hepatitis B and delta virus infection, using a 37-marker spectral panel.
Dr. Marian from Merck presented a cross-platform comparison, including the Ozette platform, of a validated 29-color Treg-centric spectral flow cytometry assay. Using these platforms to identify novel Treg phenotypes, Dr. Marian specifically called out Ozette as the most suitable for deep phenotyping and discovery.
On the poster floor
In the poster sessions, P116 from Yvonne Guzman (Vir) highlighted how Ozette Endpoints was used in the development and qualification of the 37-color HBV panel, noting that Ozette's computational gating matched manual analysis while saving FTE time.
Resolve unmixing commercial tutorial
In our commercial tutorial, Dr. Greene from Ozette introduced the new Ozette Resolve user experience, walked through the framework of spectral unmixing, and introduced the new Positivity Score: a measure of the probability that a cell is above background for each marker. The score will ship embedded in Resolve's unmixed FCS files as additional parameters in the next Resolve release.
We were also joined by two fantastic speakers, Margaret Zhao from BMS and Alexander Nicols from UCSD. Dr. Nicols presented how he is using Ozette Resolve and the new Positivity Score to process intracellular cytokine staining (ICS) data, where the score let him use biological stimulation for positive single-color controls - especially important in his pediatric studies where material is precious and beads are not a suitable mimic for the material. Dr. Zhao showed how Resolve-unmixed data with the Positivity Score produced greater longitudinal consistency and higher-integrity data across batches in 33-color deep T-cell phenotyping panels.
We'll dive deeper into these topics in future posts.
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