ChemDiv is proud to offer unparalleled capabilities in Drug Discovery. Our screening approach to high throughput hit hunting tremendously benefits from the application of our proprietary focused discovery sub-libraries assembled from the ChemDiv’s ever-growing collection of 1.5 million small moleculesbeing synthesized based on unique ideas of novel templates. Design of these subsets provides a very robust way for identifying and confirming hit compounds with immediate mini-SAR analyses of the hit series, which serve as a starting point for medicinal chemistry hit-to-lead exploration and lead optimization.
We have assembled a robust screening infrastructure to be able to work with targets of major therapeutics areas. Our technical park of Discovery Division includes:
Equipment
- Liquid Handling
- Biomek 2000,
- Biomek NX,
- Biomek FX work station
- 96/384-well plate readers;
- FLIPR-Tetra (Molecular Devices)
- Microbeta PLUS 1450 (PerkinElmer),
- scintillation counters;
- Victor2V and Victor 3 multimode;
- SpectraMax Plus 96/384;
- Mach III (Tomtec) 96-well cell harvester;
- Beckman and GUAVA 96/384 well format Flow Cytometers.
Readout capabilities
- Luminescence: Reporter genes; ELISAs;
- Fluorescence: FLINT, FRET, TR-FRET, FP, GFP; ELISAs
- Radio-Isotope: Receptor assays (ligand-binding/competition), SPA, metabolic enzymes
Absorbance: OD, ABS spectra
Ready to deploy assays
- In vitro assays:
- FLIPR (cytoplasmic and mitochondrial calcium),
- LANCE (cytoplasmic cAMP/cGMP),
- ELISA,
- Western,
- Kinase activity, Enzymatic activity
- Cell Assays:
- cell growth,
- cell cycle analysis,
- apoptosis/necrosis,
- in vitro chemoinvasion,
- high content high throughput microscopy
- Molecular and Cell Biology:
- Custom Expression / Reporter Constructs;
- Transient/stable transfection.
- Cell lines and primary cultures;
Custom Assay Development (per Clients’ specification)