Mission Bio launches pharma assay development services to speed access to new technologies

Mission Bio, the pioneer in high-throughput single-cell DNA and multi-omics analysis, has announced the launch of its Pharma Assay Development (PAD) services to accelerate biomarker discovery and cell and gene therapy development pipelines for biopharma customers. The PAD Team will provide customers with early access to services based on the latest new technological innovations, in addition to services on Mission Bio’s existing products to implement Single Cell Multiomics capabilities into discovery, translational and clinical research efforts. Mission Bio has appointed Harsha Kavuri to head up the PAD Team as General Manager, affirming its strategic focus to service the dynamic needs of customers working in areas like hematology and cell and gene therapy.

Pharmaceutical companies are accustomed to long, costly assessment and due diligence of any new technologies to ensure adoption of new technological platforms in house would add value to the overall therapy research and development efforts. Mission Bio’s PAD Team helps lower the hurdle of platform adoption by running projects on behalf of pharma customers, providing a quicker and easier path at the proof of concept stage and enabling those same customers to ultimately bring Mission Bio products in-house faster and more efficiently.

“Our biopharma customers face a number of challenges when trying to adopt new technologies that are even more pronounced in today’s environment, including sourcing the proper expertise and finding the operational and analytical resources,” Kavuri said. “By putting our new Pharma Assay Development team at their disposal, we can enable the next wave of applications for our customers across areas like biomarkers for solid tumors, hematological cancers and cell and gene therapy.”

The extra level of service provided by the PAD offering has already shown the potential to deliver projects in a matter of weeks as opposed to months. Several papers have been published in the area of treatment resistance mechanisms from teams at UCSF and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an investigation of combinational therapies by Agios, all of which made use of the access and resources this PAD service provides.

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