Accelerate Your Drug Discovery & Development Programs with Confidence

Assays, Cell Lines, & Reagents: From Discovery to Commercial Release, Small & Large Molecules, Ready-to-use & Optimized Products

Developing small molecule and biologic therapeutics presents unique challenges at each development phase. This development requires the knowledge, experience, and a broad range of assays and reagents to understand the therapeutics' structure, activity, and mechanism of action (MOA). Eurofins DiscoverX® provides the most comprehensive portfolio of stable cell lines, validated functional and binding assay kits, recombinant proteins, and optimized reagents with these qualities developed and manufactured to support your drug discovery and development journey every step of the way. Several customized solutions can be delivered for program-specific needs by utilizing our deep expertise in cell line engineering, assay design, method qualification, and cell and protein production.

 

At Eurofins DiscoverX, we are committed to enabling and accelerating your multi-modality drug discovery and development programs from Discovery, through Development, and into Commercial Release & Stability. Discover for yourself how Eurofins DiscoverX enables you to accelerate your therapeutics development. Progress forward, confidently.

Product Highlights

  • Enabling Technologies & Robust Assays – Improve productivity & effectiveness of your target validation, screening, lead optimization, & structure-activity relationships campaigns to accelerate the advancement of new therapeutics
  • Comprehensive Portfolio – The industry's largest available portfolio of cell-based functional & binding assays, cell lines, and proteins covering the top therapeutic target classes including GPCRs, kinases, checkpoint & cytokine receptors, ion channels, & more
  • Support Every Step of the Way – End-to-end support for your programs from discovery, through development, to commercial release & stability QC lot release testing

Supporting Your Journey with Cell-Based Assays and Capabilities for Characterization, Screening, Profiling, Potency, and Lot Release Programs

The Eurofins DiscoverX portfolio of high-quality products and custom assays enables you to expedite your research, and move your candidate through the drug discovery pipeline faster.

Supporting Your Journey with Cell-Based Assays and Capabilities for Characterization, Screening, Profiling, Potency, and Lot Release Programs
Programs

Global Programs using Eurofins DiscoverX Bioassays for Potency, Stability, and NAb Testing for Drug Release

Global Programs using Eurofins DiscoverX Bioassays for Potency, Stability, and NAb Testing for Drug Release

Eurofins DiscoverX bioassays are fit-for-purpose for implementation in QC lot-release for potency testing, helping to accelerate the time-to-market for therapeutics by 6 to 9 months, and ensuring high lot-to-lot reproducibility and accuracy for the life of the program. These assays can be readily transferred and implemented in potency and stability programs that typically happen under GMP conditions at the sponsors’ testing sites or partner CRO/CDMO sites. Access off-the-shelf bioassay kits that have been successfully implemented in 100+ global programs covering popular and unique druggable target classes. NA = North America, EU = Europe, APAC = Asia Pacific, and NAb = Neutralizing Antibody.

Application Notes Implementing MOA-Reflective ADCC Assays using Ready-to-Use KILR Target and Effector Cells from Screening to Lot Release

The development of antibody-based therapeutics to target the killing of tumor cells has revolutionized the space of immuno-oncology and the…

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Application Notes A Simple & Powerful Cell-Based Assay to Quantify Specific Target Cell Death by Antibody-Dependent Cellular Phagocytosis (ADCP)

With the increasing industry focus on antibody drugs, there is an ever-greater need for functional bioassays that interrogate the therapeutic…

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Application Notes Ligand Characterization of Mas-Related GPCR-X2 via Cell-Based Assays: Assessing the Regulation of Mast Cell Function and Implications in Safety Pharmacology

An Application Note Assessing the Regulation of Mast Cell Function and its Implications in Safety Pharmacology. MrgprX2 antagonism promotes fresh…

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Application Notes Automating Cell-Based Bioassay on Tecan®’s Fluent Automation Workstation: Measuring PD-1 Signaling

An Application Note on automating Eurofins DiscoverX Cell-Based PathHunter® PD-1 Signaling Bioassay to bring high-throughput efficiencies to assay workflows. The…

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Application Notes Automating Cell-Based Bioassays on Tecan®’s Fluent Automation Workstation: Measuring β-Arrestin Recruitment of Cannabinoid Receptor 1

Through early discovery, screening, characterization, and particularly for market release and commercialization of biologics, drug candidates require physiologically relevant, functional…

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Application Notes CAR-T Cell Screening in Tumor Spheroids using Corning® Spheroid Microplates and the KILR® Cytotoxicity Assay

Audrey B. Bergeron, B.A. and Hannah J. Gitschier, M.S. Corning Incorporated, Life Sciences Kennebunk, Maine

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Application Notes InCELL Pulse Cellular Target Engagement Assays for Characterizing Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors of Oncogenic SHP2 Variants

SHP2 (Src-homology 2 domain-containing phosphatase 2) is a protein tyrosine phosphatase encoded by the human PTPN11 gene.SHP2 is a key…

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Webinars Validated bioassays for metabolic & gastrointestinal diseases: Accelerating development of GLP-1 & -2 therapeutics

Therapeutics targeting glucagon-like peptide, GLP-1 and GLP-2, receptors are being developed to address globally prevalent medical disorders for managing diabetes,…

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Webinars Roundtable Webinar: Accelerating Your Biologics Therapeutics Development with Bioassays

Bioassays are critical components of the quality control system for characterizing biologics. This roundtable involves an interactive panel discussion with…

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Webinars Accelerating COVID-19 Drug Discovery: Qualified Cell-Based Assays for Proinflammatory Cytokines

COVID-19 has been declared a global pandemic by WHO. The disease is transmitted when the SARS-CoV-2 virus infects the respiratory…

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Webinars Accelerate Biologics and Biosimilars Development: Case Studies Implementing Robust and Simple Potency Bioassays

A quantitative and robust bioassay that is reflective of the MOA of the drug is a critical component of any…

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Webinars Immuno-Oncology Drug Development Profiling Immunomodulatory Biologics and Compounds

The complex interactions between tumor cells and the host immune system are only beginning to be understood, however it is…

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Webinars Functional Assays for the Development of Agonistic Abs for Immunotherapies

Watch this webinar to discover qualified bioassays assessing therapeutic antibody mechanisms, case studies about agonistic effects in antibodies initially deemed…

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White Papers Accelerating Biosimilar & Biobetter Drug Development: Ready-to-Use, Cell-Based Assays for Potency and Lot Release Testing

With the drug industry’s expanding emphasis on biologics, the need for robust cell-based assays has grown at all stages of…

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White Papers Accelerating Immune Checkpoint Drug Discovery through Functional Cell-Based Assays

Immune checkpoint receptors play a key role in maintaining antitumor immunity, avert immunopathology, and modulate overall immune homeostasis. However, cancer…

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Case Studies Evaluating Checkpoint Receptor Bioassays: Fit-For-Purpose Assays Intended for Potency Testing of Therapeutic Candidates in QC Lot Release

Ready-to-Use qualified PathHunter® checkpoint bioassays are fit-forpurpose for potency testing for implementation in downstream development phases and Lot release of…

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Case Studies Implementing Robust & Reproducible KILR® Ready-to-Use Bioassays from Screening to Lot Release: Applications for Measuring Direct Cytotoxic Cell Death

Therapeutic regulators require assay data on the impact of Fc effector-mediated function of antibodies during their development as therapeutics. The…

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Videos GPCR Assays Overview

Short Overview of Eurofins DiscoverX GPCR assays. 5 min.

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Videos InCELL Compound-Target Engagement Assays for Drug Discovery

Learn how InCELL cell-based binding assays can be used to detect compound cell entry and engagement to specific targets including…

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Videos Reporter Assays for Therapeutics Targeting Signaling Pathways

Learn how PathHunter signaling reporter assays can be used to evaluate the cellular impact of therapeutics targeting a variety of…

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Videos Receptor Internalization Assays

Learn about PathHunter Internalization assays developed to measure translocation of both single-pass and multi-pass receptors (like RTKs, checkpoint receptors and…

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Videos Pharmacotrafficking Assays

Learn about PathHunter pharmacotrafficking assays to identify small molecule compounds that rescue disease relevant mutant membrane proteins like GPCRs, ion…

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Videos Accelerate Your COVID-19 Drug Discovery with Qualified Cell-Based Assays for Pro-inflammatory Cytokines

Learn how functional cell-based assays support COVID-19 drug discovery programs, particularly in managing proinflammatory cytokines associated with high mortality rate…

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Videos Accelerating Immuno-Oncology Drug Discovery with MOA-Reflective, Functional Cell-Based Assays

Listen to the US PEGS 2023 conference talk by Venkatesh Chari, Ph.D. on MOA-reflective, functional cell-based assays (cell lines and…

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Videos A Novel MOA-reflective Bioassay for Quantifying Potency of Therapeutics Targeting the SIRPα|CD47 Signaling Axis

Learn about the first commercially available SIRPα/CD47 cell-based assay — PathHunter SIRPα Signaling Assay. Find out more about the generation…

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Videos Novel Cell-Based Assays to Enable Immunotherapy Drug Development for Checkpoint Receptors

Learn about PathHunter® checkpoint receptor assays (cell lines and bioassays) for innate and adaptive immunity. Assays discussed include functional cell-based…

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Videos KILR Platform for Cytotoxicity Applications

Learn how KILR® cytotoxicity assays provide a simple, non-radioactive and dye free method to specifically measure target cell death in…

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Videos Custom Development Capabilities

Learn about Eurofins DiscoverX cell line engineering, assay development, and recombinant enzyme production custom capabilities. Find out more about cell…

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Videos GPCR Assays: Which ones to use and why for your research and drug discovery and development programs

Learn about several GPCR assays and which ones to use and why for your research and drug discovery and development…

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Presentations [CD47/SIRPa Summit 2020] A Novel MOA-reflective Bioassay for Quantifying Potency of Therapeutics Targeting the SIRPα|CD47 Signaling Axis

Watch Recorded Presentation Jane Lamerdin, Ph.D. Director R&D, Eurofins DiscoverX

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Presentations [Cytokines Summit 2022] Enabling Cytokine Therapeutic Development with Qualified, Functional Cell-Based Assays

Gaurav Agrawal, Ph.D.Scientific Development Manager Discover how cell-based assays and translational services accelerate cytokine-based immunotherapeutic development from early discovery to…

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Presentations [DOT 2020] Accelerate Your COVID-19 Drug Discovery with Qualified Cell-Based Assays for Proinflammatory Cytokines

Gaurav Agrawal, Ph.D. Scientific Development Manager, Eurofins DiscoverX

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Presentations [Festival of Biologics EU 2021] Accelerating Immunotherapy Drug Development Targeting Checkpoints with Robust MOA-Based Assays

Presented by Dr. Alexander Baumann Head of European Business Development Eurofins DiscoverXProducts

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Presentations [PEGS 2017] Enabling Technologies for Development and Optimization of Bi-Specific Antibodies for T Cell Redirection

DiscoverX PEGS 2017 Presentation Presented By: Jane Lamerdin, Ph.D.

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Presentations [PEGS 2021] Accelerating Development of Therapeutic Interventions for COVID-19

Gaurav Agrawal, Ph.D. Scientific Development Manager Abstract Millions of deaths worldwide have been attributed to COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2…

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Presentations [WCB 2020] Accelerate Your COVID-19 Drug Discovery with Qualified Cell-Based Assays for Proinflammatory Cytokines

Gaurav Agrawal, Ph.D. Scientific Development Manager, Eurofins DiscoverX

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Presentations [PEGS 2023] Accelerating Immuno-Oncology Drug Discovery with MOA-Reflective, Functional Cell-Based Assays

Venkatesh Chari, Ph.D. Scientific Market Development Manager Eurofins DiscoverX Products LLC

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Scientific Posters Development and Evaluation of a Novel Bioassay for Denosumab Activity

Denosumab (Prolia®) is a fully human sequence derived monoclonal antibody used for the treatment of osteoporosis in menopausal women via…

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Scientific Posters Development of Simple, Robust Bioassays for Biosimilar & Biobetter Development

One of the major bottlenecks in the development of biosimilars is the need for good bioassays to create potency, stability…

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Scientific Posters Robust and Simple Potency and NAb Bioassays for Avastin® Biosimilar Development

One of the major bottlenecks in the development of biosimilars is the need for good bioassays to create potency, stability…

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Scientific Posters Development of Novel Cell-based Assays to Detect Neutralizing Antibodies to Therapeutic Biologics

Neutralizing antibodies (NAbs) to biological drugs may cause loss of therapeutic efficacy and in some cases, loss of endogenous protein…

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Scientific Posters Validated Cell-Based Assays for Rapid Screening and Functional Characterization of Therapeutic Monoclonal Antibodies

Monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) represent one of the fastest growing classes of biotherapeutic molecules today. While many technologies exist for generating…

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Scientific Posters Novel, Improved Cell-Based Assays to Enable Immunotherapy Drug Development for Checkpoint Receptors

Regulation of immune responses is tightly controlled through a balance of co-stimulatory and inhibitory checkpoint receptors, often exploited by many…

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Scientific Posters Ready-to-Use Cell-Based Assays to Enable Immunotherapy Drug Development for Checkpoint Receptors

Regulation of immune responses is tightly controlled through a balance of co-stimulatory and inhibitory checkpoint receptors, often exploited by many…

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Scientific Posters Improved Cell-Based Assays To Assess Therapeutic Molecules Against Immune Checkpoint Receptors Such As PD-1, PD-L1 and PD-L2

Regulation of immune responses is tightly controlled through a balance of co-stimulatory and inhibitory checkpoint receptors, often exploited by many…

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Scientific Posters Immuno-Oncology Therapeutics Development Using PathHunter Signaling Pathway Reporter Assays

Reporter genes are a well-established method used to develop cell-based assays for testing drugs that inhibit or activate targets involved…

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Scientific Posters Rapidly Develop Simple Potency Assays for Interleukins & Their Receptors

Ligand-induced receptor dimerization is an early functional step in receptor activation, representing the most proximal, functional read-out for Interleukin receptors.…

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Scientific Posters Comprehensive & Fit-For-Purpose Solutions to Enable Drug Development for Cytokine Targets

Interleukins are known for their involvement in functioning of both the adaptive and innate immune systems. Interleukins direct immune cells…

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Scientific Posters Novel Trafficking Assays for Pharmacochaperone Discovery Using Enzyme Fragment Complementation

DiscoveRx® has pioneered a novel enzyme complementation system to monitor cellular events such as protein translocation, protein interactions, and degradation…

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Scientific Posters Novel Trafficking Assays For Pharmacochaperone Discovery Using Enzyme Fragment Complementation Applied To CFTR-ΔF508

DiscoveRx® has pioneered a novel enzyme complementation system to monitor cellular events such as protein translocation, protein interactions, and degradation…

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Scientific Posters Unique Properties of PathHunter® β-Arrestin Assays for GPCR Antagonist Discovery and Characterization

A common feature of 7TM receptors is that upon activation, the receptors are bound by cellular Arrestin proteins. DiscoveRx has…

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Scientific Posters Accelerate Drug Development of GLP-1 & -2 Receptor Analogs with Ready-to-Use Cell-Based Assays

There is an increasing need to generate therapeutics targeting metabolic and gastrointestinal diseases to address the global burden of metabolic…

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Scientific Posters InCELL Pulse: Cellular Target Engagement Assay Platform for Drug Discovery

It is well established that ligand binding can protect proteins from thermal denaturation in a cellular milieu; however, the broad…

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Scientific Posters Functional Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Assays for Antibody therapeutics Using PathHunter® Technology

Kinase targets have been extensively studied in biochemical assays using purified protein fragments for the kinase and the substrate. However,…

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Scientific Posters Identify Effective Therapeutics with Simple, Quantitative Cell-Based Assays That Measure Receptor Internalization

Both multi- and single-pass membrane receptors constitutively exhibit complicated and dynamic membrane receptor trafficking as well as internalization induced by…

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Blogs & Articles Accelerating Development of GLP-1 & GLP-2 Therapeutics with Validated Bioassays

Glucagon-like peptides, GLP-1 & GLP-2, are well-researched, metabolically significant peptide hormones secreted from the L-cells of the small intestine in…

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Blogs & Articles GPCR Drug Discovery & Development Insights with Dr. Terry Kenakin

GPCRs have long been regarded as a low-hanging fruit drug target as they are conveniently located on the cell surface…

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Blogs & Articles Evaluate GLP-1R Targeted Therapeutics using First-to-Market Semaglutide Qualified GLP-1R Bioassay

Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1), a member of the glucagon-secretin peptide family, is secreted from L-cells of the small intestine and binds…

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Blogs & Articles Insights Into GPCR Drug Discovery & Development

Explore GPCR-Ligand Interactions & Signaling Pathways with Binding & Functional Assays

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Blogs & Articles Accelerating Biologics Therapeutics with Bioassays: An In-Depth Discussion on the Essence of Bioassays Implemented for Drug Development

Eurofins DiscoverX, in conjunction with Drug Target Review, sponsored and moderated a Bioassay roundtable discussion webinar with group leaders from…

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Blogs & Articles Accelerating Cytokine Drug Discovery and QC Lot Release Testing with Qualified, Functional Cell-Based Assays

Cytokines and their receptors have emerged as major drug targets for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, allergies, and, more recently, in…

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Blogs & Articles Targeting Pro-Inflammatory Cytokines for COVID-19 Therapy: Cell-Based Assays for Accelerated Drug Discovery

The COVID-19 pandemic has left us racing against time for remediation. As a result, we have witnessed hundreds of therapeutic…

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Blogs & Articles Rapidly Identify Therapeutics that Modulate Protein Levels Induced by Protein Degraders such as PROTACs

As newer, cutting-edge therapeutic technologies emerge, an increasing need for rapid and reliable screening tools follows.

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Publications The First WHO International Standard for Harmonizing the Biological Activity of Bevacizumab

Several Bevacizumab products are approved for clinical use, with many others in late-stage clinical development worldwide. To aid the harmonization…

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Publications Ligand-Based Discovery of a New Scaffold for Allosteric Modulation of the mu-Opioid Receptor.

With the hope of discovering effective analgesics with fewer side effects, attention has recently shifted to allosteric modulators of the…

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Publications Navigating CYP1A induction and arylhydrocarbon receptor agonism in drug discovery. A case history with S1P1 agonists.

This article describes the finding of substantial upregulation of mRNA and enzymes of the cytochrome P450 1A family during a…

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Publications InCELL Target Engagement: A High-Throughput Dose-Response Cellular Thermal Shift Assay for Rapid Screening of Drug Target Engagement in Living Cells, Exemplified Using SMYD3 and IDO1

A persistent problem in early small-molecule drug discovery is the frequent lack of rank-order correlation between biochemical potencies derived from…

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Publications Development of Three Orthogonal Assays Suitable for the Identification and Qualification of PIKfyve Inhibitors

FYVE-type zinc finger-containing phosphoinositide kinase (PIKfyve) catalyzes the formation of phosphatidylinositol 3,5-bisphosphate (PI(3,5)P2) from phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate (PI(3)P).

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Publications PathHunter Pharmacotrafficking: Review how customers used a pharmacochaperone-based high-throughput screening assay approach to discover chemical probes of orphan GPCRs

G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) have varying and diverse physiological roles, transmitting signals from a range of stimuli, including light, chemicals, peptides,…

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Publications Use of pharmacotrafficking assays therapeutically beneficial for Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects Latinos at twice the rate seen in populations of European descent. We recently identified a…

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Publications Development of Selective Phosphatidylinositol 5‑Phosphate 4‑Kinase γ Inhibitors with a Non-ATP-competitive, Allosteric Binding Mode

Phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate 4-kinases (PI5P4Ks) are emerging as attractive therapeutic targets in diseases, such as cancer, immunological disorders, and neurodegeneration, owing…

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Brochures & Flyers Accelerate Immuno-Oncology Drug Discovery & Development

Robust & Reproducible Cell-Based Assays for Potency Testing

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Brochures & Flyers Expedite Cancer Drug Discovery & Development

Functional Cell-Based Assays, Cell Lines, & Proteins for Cancer Research Improved or novel small molecule or biologic therapeutics for cancer…

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Brochures & Flyers High-Throughput Screening & Lead Optimization Products

Robust Cell-Based Assays to Identify Therapeutic Hits Rapidly

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Brochures & Flyers Eurofins DiscoverX – Delivering Solutions from Discovery to Market

Products & Custom Development Capabilities.

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Brochures & Flyers Obesity & Diabetes Product Solutions

Accelerate the Development of Peptide Therapeutics for Obesity & Diabetes With MOA-Reflective Assays — Assays for Screening, Profiling, Potency, &…

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Target Lists Products Target List

Comprehensive Eurofins DiscoverX product list to enable your drug discovery and development programs focused on checkpoint receptors, cytokine receptors/interleukins, cytotoxicity,…

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Target Lists Kinase and Phosphatase Product Solutions

Comprehensive Offering of Cellular Assays and Recombinant Enzymes for Drug Discovery Screening and Lead Optimization

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Target Lists Ion Channel Product Solutions

Functionally validated ion channel products for drug discovery and safety pharmacology

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Target Lists GPCR Product Solutions

Your source for a complete offering of GPCR assays, cell lines, and membrane preps

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Target Lists Cell-based Assays for Biologics Development Programs

Accelerate your biologics development from discovery to QC lot release with cell-based assays. Comprehensive list of bioassay kits, cell lines,…

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eBooks Insights into GPCR Drug Discovery & Development – Exploring GPCR-Ligand Interactions & Signaling Pathways with Binding & Functional Assays

Explore Functional Systems Driving GPCRs to the Forefront of Focused & Safe Therapeutics. Gain insights from industry experts on GPCR…

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CDMO/CRO Certification Program for Cell-Based Assays

Program designed to qualify CRO/CDMOs to run Eurofins DiscoverX bioassays for client downstream therapeutic efforts

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Cell Banks for Bioassays

Ensure long-term assay reproducibility with the production of bioassay cells — critical reagents for cell banks

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Custom Capabilities

Custom cell lines, kits, assays, & protein development capabilities optimized to fit your requirements

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