Immuno-Oncology in vitro Assays  

Perform initial screening tests using InnoSer’s in vitro immuno-oncology assays to select your lead candidate compounds and progress to in vivo studies with confidence

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InnoSer’s Immuno-Oncology In Vitro Assay Services

Immuno-oncology in vitro assays are carried out using cancer-associated rodent (murine, rat) or human immortalized cell lines, representing a powerful tool to perform high throughput drug screening studies. Accordingly, InnoSer offers a selection of commercially available cancer cell lines ideal for progressing your compound from a hit to a lead candidate.  

Assays using rodent or human cell lines are efficient, relatively inexpensive, and easy to set up. Therefore, providing you with a wealth of information on your compound efficacy, and mechanisms of action. However, to capture patient and tumor heterogeneity early on in your initial in vitro screening studies, InnoSer recommends working with patient-derived organoids (tumoroids). Accordingly, in vitro assays can be used before or in conjunction with running your in vivo studies in InnoSer’s syngeneic mouse models or cell line-derived xenograft (CDX) mouse models.

✓  Cancer-associated tumor and microenvironment-associated cell lines (human and rodent).

✓  Co-cultures (human and rodent) and 3D cell cultures (tumoroids). 

DTH mouse model

Developing new, safe, and efficacious anticancer therapies is an extremely intricate process. As a preclinical oncology contract research organization (CRO), InnoSer partners with you to help you navigate the complexities of this research area.  

Scientists at InnoSer collaborate with you to develop the most optimal study design to help answer your research questions in the most cost-effective way. With flexible and fast study start times you can perform your research at an accelerated pace. By outsourcing your preclinical oncology studies to InnoSer, you gain access to our in vitro and in vivo oncology drug development portfolio. 

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Immuno-oncology in vitro assays Sample Data

Key immuno-oncology in vitro assays

InnoSer's Key Immuno-Oncology Assays


Test the efficacy of your treatments with the following immuno-oncology in vitro assays: 
  • PD-1 PD-L1 blockade assay
  • Live cell imaging (proliferation, apoptosis, phagocytosis, cell motility)  
  • Proliferation (BrdU quantification, cell viability, metabolic activity)  
  • Migration assay (Scratch assay, Boyden chamber analysis)  
  • Invasion assay (spheroids assay, measurement of EMT features) 
  • Apoptosis (Annexin V-PI, caspases) 
  • Cell cycle analysis  
  • Invasion  
  • Angiogenesis assay 
  • Cytokine release assessment  
  • Quantitative biomarker analysis (MSD, ELISA)  
  • Gene expression and protein expression analyses  
  • High-content imaging (3D imaging, confocal microscopy)  
  • Immunoassays (ELISA)  
  • Biomarker analyses, cytotoxicity, cell migration, and proliferation assays 

The People Behind Your Research

Céline Erens, PhD, Immunology Study Director

An expert team led by our immuno-oncology study director, Céline Erens helps you choose the right tools and set up optimal study designs. Curating the preclinical testing of your lead compounds with a deep understanding of the field is your solution to accelerating your drug development.

Yanick Fanton, PhD, Chief Scientific Officer

As Chief Science Officer at InnoSer, Yanick is responsible for all customer studies at InnoSer and takes care of the scientific and technical coordination.

Oncology Board Members

Prof. Dr. Esther Wolfs

A member of InnoSer’s Scientific Advisory Board, Dr. Wolfs is a leading researcher in stem cell therapy. Currently a professor at the University of Hasselt, Ester uses stem cells in anticancer therapy and as a model to study Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease type 1A.

Marije Slingerland

MD, PhD Marije Slingerland

A member of InnoSer’s Scientific Advisory Board, Dr. Slingerland from Leiden University Medical Center focuses on clinical trials in gastrointestinal cancer and in head and neck cancer, particularly on intratumoral immune parameters.

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