Scientific services
As labs are increasingly expected to maximize lab output while increasing ROI, many have embraced the role of on- and off-site dedicated scientific service partners as a means of generating new value streams within work models. Avantor’s teams of degree-level chemists, biologists, and engineers create your extended support team, performing protocol-driven work and implementing efficiencies within workflows supporting any scientific discipline – to save you time, accelerate your research pipeline and help you propel science forward, faster.
THE VALUE OF SCIENCE AS A SERVICE: TRUE SCIENTIFIC ENABLEMENT
Scientific achievement relies on your lab leadership’s ability to collaborate with colleagues on discovery and expedite strategic decision-making affecting research outcomes. Partnering with Avantor’s scientific services teams, your research benefits from:
- Fellow scientists adopting your project vision and contributing protocol-driven experiments and process insights to maximize the time of high-value resources
- Bench and non-bench expertise customized and aligned to any scientific discipline
- Task prioritization supporting efficiencies within the lab pipeline
- Flexible, customizable deployment models to support ongoing projects and quickly accommodate shifting priorities
- Customized performance metrics demonstrating contribution value and ROI
- Personnel managed by Avantor to free your team from time-consuming administrative roles
At Avantor, we understand accelerating science relies on teams working cohesively to produce mission-based work aligned to a singular scientific vision. That’s why the work of our accredited scientific services teams is dedicated to supporting research and development, quality control, and GxP-based workflows. We help advance science from discovery to delivery, supporting customers in biopharma, pharmaceutical, educational, industrial, and high-tech industries, respectively.
Scope of Work examples include:
- Liquid handling: quality control assessment of automation equipment
- Preparation of reference compounds to required concentrations
- Serial dilution
- Set up and operate plate-based assays
- Assay data reporting
- Conduct maintenance protocols
- Media/reagent preparation
- Basic microscopy
- Cell resuscitation
- Cell line passaging
- Growth curves
- Processing and embedding tissue
- Sectioning and cryo-sectioning of tissue
- H/E (hematoxylin eosin) staining of tissue
- Immunohistochemistry (IHC) staining of tissue
- Maintain flow cytometry instrumentation
- Set up experiment and compensation controls
- Record sample data
- Perform cell batch analysis and export report data
- Manage buffer preparation lab, equipment, single-use supplies
- In-house solutions preparation from powders
- Operate 2,000L single-use stirred tank system
- Perform QA/QC protocols
- Perform lab equipment daily checks
- GMP lab record keeping
- Product appearance test
- Viscosity of the sample
- Karl Fischer test
- Particle size analysis
- Manage stability chambers
- Drug Dissolution study by HPLC
- Drug Content by HPLC
- Degradation Products by HPLC
- Receive tissue samples
- Perform DNA extraction
- Develop sequence-specific genotyping assays
- Select Primers and Probes
- Perform singleplex and multiplex real-time qPCR assay
- Generate genotype study reports
- Preparation of DNA samples and DNA beads
- Operate and maintain laboratory instruments
- Perform amplification assays
- Preparation of Nucleotide mixes via HPLC
- Assist with data collection and analysis
- Specialized reagent preparation
- Prepare mobile phase buffers
- Pack and recycle chromatography columns
- Collect and label batch samples
- Maintain logs and documentation
- Set up, breakdown, and clean equipment according to lab protocol
- Lab waste record keeping and disposal
- Purification of small molecules by HPLC
- Purification of small molecules by automated Flash Chromatography
- Pooling and dry-down of chromatography fractions
- Collect characterization data for isolated products (LCMS and NMR)
Accelerate discovery with scientific services teams dedicated to your unique vision. Contact us today.
