APPLICATIONS · RESEARCH AREA · TRANSLATIONAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH

From validated assays to clinical trial endpoints

Translational and clinical research is where biomarkers stop being interesting and start informing decisions. Can a candidate stratify responders? Do safety signals translate into patients? Does the pharmacodynamic biomarker confirm the dose?

Clinical answers require validated, reproducible workflows that perform at the scale and quality the study demands, and hold up when someone audits them.

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APPLICATIONS · RESEARCH AREA · TRANSLATIONAL AND CLINICAL RESEARCH

From validated assays to clinical trial endpoints

Translational and clinical research is where biomarkers stop being interesting and start informing decisions. Can a candidate stratify responders? Do safety signals translate into patients? Does the pharmacodynamic biomarker confirm the dose?

Clinical answers require validated, reproducible workflows that perform at the scale and quality the study demands, and hold up when someone audits them.

Talk to a scientist

Discuss your trial

Validated single-plex, multiplex and ultra-sensitive assays in one laboratory

Validated single-plex, multiplex and ultra-sensitive assays in one laboratory

Validated single-plex, multiplex and ultra-sensitive assays in one laboratory

Multi-site and longitudinal delivery

Multi-site and longitudinal delivery

Multi-site and longitudinal delivery

HTA licensed, GCP compliant

HTA licensed, GCP compliant

HTA licensed, GCP compliant

Tell us about your endpoint

Tell us the endpoint, the phase, the number of sites and timepoints, and the regulatory framework the programme reports to. We will tell you which assay format fits, what validation level is appropriate, and what the study will take.

That reply comes within one working day.

Send us your endpoint requirements

WHY IT MATTERS

Clinical data has to hold up – across every assay, site and timepoint

Analytical performance

Validated assays need documented sensitivity, precision, accuracy and reproducibility at the level sponsors and regulators expect. Not “the platform is validated”, but this assay, in this matrix, to this standard.

Consistency over time

Clinical samples arrive across sites, cohorts and timepoints rather than in one controlled batch. Analytical consistency has to hold across all of it, which depends on bridging samples, plate layout and a control strategy agreed before the first sample runs. Retrofitting that is not possible.

Quality from sample to report

The quality framework cannot begin at the instrument. It runs from sample receipt and chain of custody through analysis, data integrity and final reporting.

Clinical evidence is only as strong as the workflow behind it.

WHat we measure

Match the assay to the clinical decision

Validated neurological endpoints

Validated immune and serology endpoints

Broad longitudinal profiling

Ultra-sensitive focused measurement

Trial-specific endpoints

Applications

Clinical trial endpoints

Patient selection and precision medicine

Longitudinal and translational programmes

Beyond interventional trials

  • Phase 1, 2 and 3 clinical trial biomarker support

  • Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic endpoints in clinical bioanalysis

  • Target engagement confirmation in human cohorts

  • Safety biomarker monitoring

Clinical trial endpoints

Patient selection and precision medicine

Longitudinal and translational programmes

Beyond interventional trials

  • Phase 1, 2 and 3 clinical trial biomarker support

  • Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic endpoints in clinical bioanalysis

  • Target engagement confirmation in human cohorts

  • Safety biomarker monitoring

Built for the standards clinical work demands

Clinical biomarker work has to withstand sponsor audits, QA review and regulatory inspection. That means the quality framework, the platform validation and the scientific oversight all have to hold at once.

Quality framework

HTA licence 12818, the UK framework governing the storage and use of human tissue. GCP-compliant workflows. Quality processes aligned to relevant ISO 15189 principles, the international standard for medical laboratories, with accreditation in progress. Documented SOPs, sample chain of custody, data-integrity controls and audit-ready quality systems on every project.

We are not GLP-certified and do not take GLP-regulated bioanalysis. Where your programme needs it, we will say so up front.

Validation scaled to context of use

From fit-for-purpose research workflows through to regulatory-facing clinical trial bioanalysis. We apply the validation the study needs, and we tell you why at scoping.

Senior scientific oversight

A named senior scientist from study design through final reporting. The same team can stay involved from preclinical biomarker development into clinical execution, preserving analytical and biological context at the point where a supplier change is most expensive.

The practical detail

Turnaround

Two weeks from sample receipt, confirmed in writing at quote

Quote

Within one working day

Up to 1,000-fold greater than conventional ELISA.

Femtogram-per-millilitre for many targets.

SR-X performance figures confirmed per assay at scoping

Sample confirmation

Receipt and condition confirmed within two working days, before anything is consumed

Receipt and condition confirmed within two working days, before anything is consumed

Multi-site delivery

Supported, with bridging samples and control strategy agreed at design stage to hold comparability across sites

Supported, with bridging samples and control strategy agreed at design stage to hold comparability across sites

Longitudinal studies

Supported. Analytical consistency maintained as samples accumulate across cohorts and timepoints

Supported. Analytical consistency maintained as samples accumulate across cohorts and timepoints

Cohort size

Dozens to tens of thousands of samples

Dozens to tens of thousands of samples

Data output

Absolute concentrations in pg/mL for Simoa, MSD and the 250 AQ panel. Relative quantification in NPQ units for other NULISAseq panels

Absolute concentrations in pg/mL for Simoa, MSD and the 250 AQ panel. Relative quantification in NPQ units for other NULISAseq panels

Validation reporting

Scaled to context of use: research-grade, fit-for-purpose or regulator-ready

Scaled to context of use: research-grade, fit-for-purpose or regulator-ready

Quality framework

HTA licence 12818. GCP-compliant workflows. Aligned to ISO 15189

HTA licence 12818. GCP-compliant workflows. Aligned to ISO 15189

Regulatory status

For research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures

Regulatory status

For research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures

For research use only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures

Why you can trust this now

Our scientists have worked in regulated and GMP environments before Altheome: Lonza, MedImmune, the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult, Freeline and Insmed. A quality system built by people who have been audited elsewhere behaves differently from one built to pass a first inspection.


Our quality system was designed to be audited from the outset rather than retrofitted later, we have no legacy processes to defend, and we hold HTA licence 12818 with GCP-compliant workflows and ISO 15189 accreditation in progress.

We run Simoa on the SR-X alongside NULISA, MSD and sequencing.

All of them are ours, so the recommendation you get is a scientific one. If your target is better served by NULISA or MSD we will say so, and the work stays with us either way.



Homebrew development means we are not limited to the catalogue.


Where no commercial Simoa assay exists for your target, we can build one.

HOW IT WORKS

From translational validation to clinical endpoint

Translational validation
Confirm that biomarkers identified in preclinical or discovery work perform meaningfully in human cohorts, and that the analytical method transfers.
Clinical application
Apply validated assays to patient stratification, safety, PK/PD, target engagement or other trial endpoints.
Longitudinal delivery
Maintain analytical consistency as samples accumulate across sites, cohorts and timepoints. This is the stage where most multi-year biomarker datasets quietly degrade, and it is entirely a function of decisions made at design.
Reporting and oversight
Traceable, documented data and validation reporting to the level the study requires.

Start with a scoping conversation

THE ALTHEOME DIFFERENCE

Why clinical programmes work with us

The full assay range in one laboratory

Continuity from preclinical into clinical

Design input before the first sample

Validation scaled honestly

Speed

Straight answers

Validated single-plex, multiplex and ultra-sensitive assays, so an endpoint that needs two formats does not need two suppliers and two validation exercises.

Talk to a scientist

THE ALTHEOME DIFFERENCE

Why clinical programmes work with us

The full assay range in one laboratory

Continuity from preclinical into clinical

Design input before the first sample

Validation scaled honestly

Speed

Straight answers

Validated single-plex, multiplex and ultra-sensitive assays, so an endpoint that needs two formats does not need two suppliers and two validation exercises.

Talk to a scientist

THE ALTHEOME DIFFERENCE

Why clinical programmes work with us

The full assay range in one laboratory

Continuity from preclinical into clinical

Design input before the first sample

Validation scaled honestly

Speed

Straight answers

Validated single-plex, multiplex and ultra-sensitive assays, so an endpoint that needs two formats does not need two suppliers and two validation exercises.

Talk to a scientist

Tell us about your programme

Send us your endpoint, phase, site count and regulatory framework, and a senior scientist will tell you which assay format and validation level fit.

Talk to a scientist

Discuss your trial

You will hear from us within one working day.

Tell us about your programme

Send us your endpoint, phase, site count and regulatory framework, and a senior scientist will tell you which assay format and validation level fit.

Talk to a scientist

Discuss your trial

You will hear from us within one working day.

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The research journey


From animal model to first-in-human, without switching laboratories.

01

Discovery & Early Research

Broad profiling, target identification, hypothesis generation.

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02

Preclinical Development

Target engagement, pharmacodynamic biomarkers, toxicology endpoints, and translational bridging from animal models to first-in-human.

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03

Translational & Clinical Research

Current stage

Validated biomarker workflows for clinical trial endpoints, regulatory-grade bioanalysis, patient stratification, and longitudinal monitoring.