Battelle’s assay development services are part of a comprehensive suite of capabilities in medical device development, pre-clinical safety testing, efficacy and model development, infectious disease research and development, and clinical trial support.

Battelle’s life science teams support assay development in the areas of immunology, microbiology, virology, cell biology, molecular biology, and protein biochemistry. Our approach often involves establishing and validating standard assays as well as applying a creative analytical approach to answer critical questions through customized assays.

Services in assay development, refinement, and validation include:

• Diagnostic and Therapeutic Development and Testing, including Medical Devices (host response to the test article, potency, lot release and testing, test system evaluations, etc.)
• Assay Development Supporting Drug Discovery (alternative efficacy screens, cytotoxicity, cell proliferation, cell surface response, mode of action, synergy testing, etc.)
• Pre-clinical and Clinical Trials Support (custom assays, method validation, serology, dose response analysis, etc.)
• Reagent Development and Evaluation (antibodies, primers/probes, etc.)

Custom and standardized assays:

• Are performed in compliance with all governing regulatory bodies at the customer’s request.
• Support the discovery process for drug development.
• Increase customer satisfaction.