Asterand plc Details

Asterand plc

Company Profile:

Asterand plc is the leading global supplier of high quality, well characterised human tissue and human tissue based research services to drug discovery scientists.  Formed in January 2006 from the merger of Asterand, a human tissue biorepository, and Pharmagene, a human tissue based drug discovery company, we are uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive approach to meet the research needs of pharmaceutical and biotechnology scientists from target identification through to compound evaluation and drug safety. Our mission is to accelerate target discovery and compound validation and enable pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to take safer and more effective drugs into the clinic.

Previous Clients:
Our customers include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies worldwide

Key Products:
XpressBank^TM

Biobank of frozen and fixed tissues, bio fluids, RNA, DNA, cell lines, primary cells and tissue microarrays.

ProCure^TM

Custom procurement of human biomaterials including frozen, fixed and fresh human tissues and bio fluids.

PhaseZERO®

Target validation and compound evaluation services using frozen, fixed and fresh human tissues. Includes gene expression services, protein expression services, human tissue and cell based pharmacology services and ADMET services.

Website:
www.asterand.com