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    February 4, 2010

    ApoCell Awarded Contract to Develop Circulating Tumor Cell Isolation Technology (ApoStreamTM) from NCI's Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD)

    June 1, 2011, Houston

    ApoCell Launches Revolutionary Circulating Cancer Cell Detection System - ApoStreamTM

    August 10, 2011, Houston

    ApoCell Awarded $2.9M from SAIC-Frederick, Inc. to Deliver a New Platform for Detection and Molecular Analysis of Circulating Tumor Cells

    August 24, 2011, Houston

    ApoCell named to Inc Magazine's List of the 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies

    September 23, 2011, Houston

    ApoCell named to Houston Business Journal's List of the 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Houston

    September 30, 2011, Houston

    ApoCell awarded SBIR Grant to Develop Point of Care Device for Antibody Independent Isolation of Circulating Tumor Cells

Your pathways. Our assays.

ApoCell provides customized biomarker assay development services to meet the unique needs of your pre-clinical and clinical trials. We further validate the assay for its sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, reproducibility, and stability. Through assay validation studies, ApoCell scientists can provide you with reliable and accurate results that are scientifically sound and meet FDA and other regulatory directives.

Signalling Pathways:
Angiogenesis
Apoptosis
Hedgehog
PI3K-AKT
MAPK
Wnt

An assay validation study can help you make important decisions to protect the integrity of your trial. The three levels of service we provide to optimize and validate your assay are:

  • Proof-of-concept (POC): verify the feasibility of reagents.
  • Quantification: test the validity of biomarkers by using method-to-method comparing studies.
  • Full-validation: validate assay through standard tests to be applicable, and to support GCP and GLP studies. The validation includes intra- and inter- precision, tech-to-tech comparison, sample stability, sample recovery, linearity, instrument to instrument comparison, and cross-lab validation etc.

Assay validation study is focused on assay performance. The validated assay is to ensure that the tested biomarker is linked to a clinical significance to support your Investigative New Drug Application (INDA) and New Drug Application (NDA).