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Biotechnology Services
Gene Therapy Products |
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Clinical trial monitoring
Viral load: Monitoring of viral load is necessary to assess efficacy of anti-viral therapies and can be a superior indicator compared with other available clinical markers. Viral load can be measured using quantitative PCR assays developed in-house or commercially available kits. PCR can also be used to provide exclusion criteria data for patients during the study set-up phase of clinical trials.
Vector shedding and distribution: Quantitative PCR or RT-PCR is used to determine gene therapy vector distribution and excretion in patients undergoing clinical trials. Features of our service include:
- Covance can arrange shipment of samples from investigator sites to our laboratories
- Covance can conduct clinical trials and trial management
- The Clinical Pathology Services Department can organize the logistics and storage of large numbers of clinical samples
- Automated sample extraction may be applied to large numbers of clinical samples
- Expertise in qualitative and quantitative PCR enables the development of specific PCR assays to novel targets
- Containment facilities allow the handling and analysis of infectious samples
- Data can be transferred from the Clinical Pathology Services Department electronically to the client using Clinaxsys data management system.
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