Microplate Reader Critical to Biopharmaceutical Data Acquisition

Avacta Group in York, UK, has chosen Tecan’s Infinite M200 microplate reader to play a pivotal role in offering innovative analytical services to the biopharmaceutical sector, where high quality and reproducible data acquisition is crucial.

Russell Hodgetts, MD of Avacta’s Laboratory Services, explained: “The Infinite M200 allows us to provide quality, high throughput services to our clients, and is integral to the development of solubility screening assays, which are the starting point for our formulation development service. The multiple detection methods and environmental control available with the Tecan instrument make it extremely versatile.” Avacta has recently developed MIDAS (multi immuno diagnostic assay system), a point-of-care platform designed to automate medical diagnostic tests usually performed manually in a laboratory. The Infinite plate reader has been central to this bioassay development, as Product Manager Dr Ed Quinn, explained: “The multimode detection capabilities of the Infinite reader allow us to carry out a wide range of assaying techniques – using absorbance, fluorescence and luminescence detection – on one instrument, and the built-in temperature control and shaking mean that the complete assay can be performed in situ. The easy-to-use i–control™ software allows us to rapidly set up experiments, defining our own plate parameters to improve the resolution of our assays. Data is automatically exported to our laboratory information system, seamlessly integrating into our research and development programme.”