Who We Are
Asterand Bioscience is now part of BioIVT. The addition of ASTERAND (founded in 2000 as a human tissue bank) and PHASEZERO (founded in 1996 as a human tissue-based drug discovery company) to the BioIVT family of brands, means BioIVT is uniquely positioned to provide a comprehensive approach to meet your biospecimen and related service needs. The companies combine to become the leader of high quality, well-characterized human tissue and human tissue-based research solutions to drug and diagnostic development scientists. As such, BioIVT continues to partner with you to provide human-based solutions to accelerate the validation of drug targets, enhance the selection of drug candidates with an increased likelihood of clinical success and support clinical diagnostic assay development and testing. With our expanded capabilities in human tissue procurement, characterization and research tools, our employees focus on providing the services and products that help you succeed.
Our Products
Our expanded capabilities provide you with solutions in human and animal biologics, from Normal to Diseased State, Biofluids to Tissues. BioIVT’s ASTERAND human tissues are procured through an unparalleled worldwide network of over 100 active collaborative donor institutions. Our biobank contains several hundred thousand specimens from a broad range of therapeutic areas and with many ethnicities. Our tissues provide high value to our clients because the quantity of material provided for each sample allows scientists to conduct multiple experiments using a single specimen. In addition, our renowned quality assurance procedures provide stringent controls on specimen collection and characterization and on the corresponding clinical data. As part of this process, we also independently confirm pathology and assess RNA integrity of our tissues. Our quality control results are provided to researchers before they make their purchases. This enables researchers to choose samples that will best meet their scientific requirements. Through our custom procurement service, human tissues and clinical data can also be custom collected to meet special requirements.
Our Services
BioIVT’s PHASEZERO® Research Services Team offers exemplary scientific expertise in human tissue research, with experience in providing top multinational pharmaceutical companies with human tissue-based services since 1996. Our PHASEZERO drug discovery services platform provides a collaborative scientific approach to deliver human tissue-based data on target & biomarker validation as well as compound potency, effect and safety. Our studies can be custom designed and are conducted on a fee-for-service basis where our clients own and retain all resulting IP and data.
Additional Information
Human Tissue, Biofluid, Immune Cells and Primary Cells
As the leading provider of high quality human tissue, biofluids, immune cells and primary cells with associated clinical information BioIVT’s human biospecimens are procured and quality controlled following rigorous criteria. We acquire biospecimens through different procurement means to best meet the supply demand of our customers through an IRB-approved process. Our bank includes material that is prospectively obtained in a variety of formats including fresh frozen and FFPE, as well as biofluids. We offer tissue sets collected as mirrored and/or matched pairs or as a quad set. In addition, we offer immortalized cell lines, primary cells, immune cells tissue microarrays as well as biospecimen services such as the creation of tissue derivatives.
Custom Procurement of Human Tissue and Biofluid
BioIVT offers human tissues and clinical data custom collected to meet unique research requirements within a wide range of disease categories. Samples are provided in multiple preserved formats or as fresh and unpreserved biospecimens. For biofluids, specific coagulants and processing can be performed for fit-for-purpose collection. As a result, we deliver human tissue, biofluid and accompanying clinical information that is most compatible with your experimental design. With our exceptional network we are able to offer tissue and biofluid custom collected in various formats across a broad therapeutic offering.
Biospecimen Services
Our laboratories provide a number of biospecimen services to better enable and accelerate the research of our customers. Our team of highly trained PhD scientists, Scientists, certified Histologists and Board Certified Clinical Pathologists offer a range of contract research and core services designed to serve your needs.
Histology/Pathology Services
Immunohistochemistry
Mutation Screening
Flow Cytometry
Custom Tissue Microarrays (Frozen and FFPE Tissue, Cell Lines)
Primary Cell Isolation and Culture
Molecular Pathology Services
PHASEZERO® Human Tissue-based Services
For over 20 years, our PHASEZERO experienced scientists have worked collaboratively with clients to facilitate the efficient selection of drug targets and candidate therapeutics with the highest likelihood for clinical success by providing a variety of pre-clinical research services. From target and biomarker validation to characterizing the effects of drug candidates for both potency and safety using human tissue-based approaches, our scientists provide clients with high-quality experimental design, execution, data interpretation and reporting. Each project is managed by a dedicated scientific project manager and customized to meet each client’s specific needs. Projects are further enhanced by PHASEZERO experienced scientists expertise in collecting and preparing high quality, well-annotated diseased and non-diseased human biospecimens.
Target and Biomarker Validation
Gene Expression and Localization
in situ Hybridization (ISH)
Gene Expression Profiling (XPRESSWAY)
Quantitative Gene Expression
Fluorescent in situ Hybridization (FISH)
Mutation Analysis
Protein Expression and Localization
Immunohistochemistry
Immuno-oncology focused multiplex IHC and ISH (Polaris)
ISH Multiplexing
XPRESSARRAY
Flow Cytometry
Compound Evaluation and Safety
3D Human Cell-based Assays
Custom Cell-based Assays
Primary Cells and Cell lines
Tissue Cross Reactivity
ADMET
Hepatoxicity
Metabolism
Liver Disease Modeling
Hepatobiliary Disposition
Drug-Drug Interactions (DDI)
Companion Diagnostics
Supporting Services
Custom Tissue Microarrays
Gene mutation analysis (including KRAS, EGFR, Her2)
Laser Capture Microdissection (LCM)
Primary cell isolation and culture
Autoradiography