Open Access Multi-Array Detection & Assay

Meso Scale Discovery SECTOR Imager 6000

BABS Biomarker Services based at BioPark, the science park in Welwyn Garden City, is a consortium of BioPark with a tenant company on the science park, ABS Laboratories, being established to offer an ‘open access’ biomarker detection and assay service to biopharmaceutical companies, Higher Education Institutes and others with an interest in this emerging field of biomedical research.

The facility, which has been generously funded by the East of England Development Agency will utilise a Meso Scale Discovery® (MSD) Multi-Array® detection unit, ‘MSDSECTOR® Imager 6000’ to read and quantify a wide range of single and multiplex kits for biomarkers, cell signalling pathways and immunogenicity assays.

The detector unit is based on electro-chemiluminescence technology, the assay kits also being provided by MSD. This platform has become the industry standard within many large pharmaceutical companies for supporting in-vitro, preclinical and clinical drug discovery and development.