Organization type
- Academic research institution
- Service provider
Early phases
- Biomarker identification
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Omics
- Genomics
- Transcriptomics
- Target identification – new biological hypothesis
- Target validation – Hypothesis verification
Screening
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Assay development
- In vitro screening models
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Chemical libraries
- Natural product extracts: plants, microbial, animal (invertebrates, insects)
- Small molecules (including natural product, DNA encoded libraries and fragment libraries)
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Fragment based screening
- Hit expansion. Medicinal chemistry programs.
- Screening and high throughput screening using small molecules (including natural product, DNA encoded libraries and fragment libraries)
Optimization phases
- In vitro biochemical models(including assay/model development and testing)
- In vitro cellular and organotypic 3D models (including assay/model development and testing)
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Mechanism of action (MoA) assessment
- Functional cellular panels
- Omics profiling
- Selectivity panels
- Target deconvolution
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Preclinical phase (including assay/model development and testing)(non-regulatory and regulatory)
- ADME / DMPK
- Safety
Functional areas
- Compound management
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Molecular and cellular biology
- Cell line generation
- Flow cytometry
- Imaging / High content screening
- Mechanistic enzymology & receptorology
- Microarrays
- Protein expression / purification
- qPCR
- RNAseq
- Sequencing
Terapeutic areas
- Autoimmunity / Inflammation
- Blood and lymphatic system
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular
- Dermatology
- Infectious diseases
- Nervous Central System
- Ophthalmology / Optometry
- Rare diseases
Additional activities
- Consulting services
- CROs providing no-regulatory and regulatory services for drug discovery