A comprehensive service to drug discovery clients including assay development, reagent testing and scale-up, proof of technology concept and validation, phenotypic screening and consultancy.

The members of Aurelia Bioscience have been involved in the design and development of many drug discovery projects incorporating complex biology and implementing a suite of assays designed to identify “active” compounds and improve their biological properties.
Acting as an intermediary between instrument and reagent manufacturers and prospective clients we can provide an expert lab-based environment for the validation of new technologies.

With over 20 years of screening experience we are adept at designing and screening over 100,000 to 1 million compounds in 384 and 1536 well plates.

We specialise in physiologically relevant assays using predominantly cell-based formats in state of the art technologies.

Our team has extensive experience of developing and screening compounds in biochemical assays for a range of targets including but not limited to proteases, kinases, and phosphodiesterase enzymes and protein:protein interaction.

Our scientists have in-depth experience of label-free technology applied to cell-based assays gained over the past 6 years using Coring EPIC, Perkin Elmer EnSpire and SRU Bioscience Bind instruments.

The 8200 Cellular Detection System (Fluorescent Microvolume Assay Technology - FMAT) from Applied Biosystems is a laser scanning macro-confocal fluorescent plate reader.
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Cell based assays are of key importance at a number of stages in the drug discovery process. Being able to examine the interaction between your target and compounds in a cellular context is of great advantage...

We have used the Ultra and Micro HCS imaging devices in a range of assay formats involving different target types including...

Gary Allenby, Kathy Dodgson and Kevin Hart are the founders of Aurelia Bioscience. They have over 70 years experience between them working for several blue chip Pharmaceuticals .....

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