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GE Healthcare Life Sciences provides tools for drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing and cellular technologies, so research scientists and specialists around the world can be more productive, effective and creative. Our vision is to be the start-to-finish bioprocessing solution provider, the partner of choice in cell and protein research, and the leader in life sciences services. Building on our broad expertise across life sciences, we are firmly committed to help researchers understand life at a molecular level and develop solutions that can prevent, diagnose, treat, and cure disease. With our “healthymagination” initiative, we invite the world to join us on our journey as we continue to drive innovation focused on reducing costs, increasing access, and improving quality and efficiency in healthcare around the world.

ChanTest’s mission is to serve the research, drug discovery and drug development needs of customers worldwide with high-value solutions for ion channel and GPCR biology. Since its inception in 1998, the company has tested compounds for more than 500 global pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and partners with them to speed the drug development process for the release of better, safer drugs. ChanTest offers integrated ion channel and GPCR services (GLP and non-GLP) and reagents; the company’s library of validated ion channel cell lines and pre-clinical cardiac risk assessment service portfolio are the most comprehensive commercially available today. Because of ChanTest’s seminal role in the pre-clinical cardiac safety field, along with the company’s uncompromising commitment to quality, ChanTest has been named the “most trusted and most used fee-for-service provider” for ion channel screening in an independent survey for the past 6 years. ChanTest is based in Cleveland, Ohio.

BioReliance is a leading contract services company in the area of product safety, providing genetic toxicology screening and GLP assays, as well as Tk analysis, clin path, tg mouse carcinogenicity testing, and animal health assessment.

Supporting Sponsors

AB SCIEX helps to improve the world we live in by enabling scientists and laboratory analysts to push the limits in their field and address the complex analytical challenges they face

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Our products and services help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, and solve analytical challenges ranging from complex research to routine testing to field applications

Charles River provides preclinical and clinical services as well as research models and laboratory animal support services, spanning the entire drug development process, helping accelerate research and drug development efforts

Ricerca Biosciences offers a comprehensive suite of discovery, preclinical and development services to support drug candidates from lead identification through IND and NDA on a global scale. Capabilities include molecular through in vivo screening and profiling, as well as radiochemistry, IND-enabling toxicology, API process chemistry and cGMP manufacturing of clinical and commercial API. Our experienced scientists deliver world-class expertise and services to help you shorten time to IND and bring molecules to the clinic faster.

Absorption Systems brings the best in science to identifying and overcoming ADMET barriers in the development of drugs, biologics, and medical devices. We continually develop innovative research tools to accurately predict human outcomes and explain unanticipated ones.

Molecular Imaging Inc. is the only Contract Research Organization (CRO) dedicated to providing small animal in-vivo multi-modality imaging services (anatomical, functional, molecular). The combination and depth of experience in our pharmacology and imaging teams is what makes us different and a valued partner to the pharmaceutical industry. Imaging modalities currently include small animal MRI, PET , CT, bioluminescence, fluorescence, FMT, DEXA, 2D X-ray and in the near future we will be adding many exciting new modalities. Molecular Imaging offers pharmacology models primarily in support of Oncology and Inflammation research. With nearly a decade of CRO imaging experience, Molecular Imaging combines broad protocol and model validation, optimized image acquisition and analysis throughput, with strong client-oriented project management

CIRION is a mid-sized Contract Research Laboratory founded in 1994. CIRION specializes in assay development and validation services. Our areas of expertise are Biologics/Biosimilars, Biomarkers and Cell Based Assays. Complementing our R&D services is CIRION’s Global Central Lab providing project and logistical support for complex clinical studies and special patient populations.

Alturas Analytics, Inc. is a GLP compliant bioanalytical CRO focused on LC/MS/MS analysis. Our research intensive CRO continues to lead the industry in bioanalytical support of early drug discovery, toxicology and clinical studies. Alturas Analytics, Inc. also leads the way in dried blood spot (DBS) analysis, biomarker and macromolecule analysis. The novel technologies developed by Alturas Analytics, Inc. include dried matrix spot (DMS) analysis to support DMPK research. Our laboratory is privately funded by a group of scientists with >100 publications in the area of LC/MS/MS bioanalysis. We encourage you to visit our website at www.alturasanalytics.com for more information.

Since 1989, Cerep has offered high quality, pre-clinical drug discovery services with over 1,000 in vitro pharmacology, in vitro ADME-Tox and in vivo PK assays currently available.