HTS/HCS > Asan Preclinical Evaluation center for cancer therapeutiX

High Throughput Screening(HTS)

MEKi kinase assay
mTORi kinase assay
Histone methyltransferase EHMT2/G9a assay
Lantha EphB4 activity assay
Deubiquitination activity assay
GPCR Modulating activity screen (cell-based)
Lethality of NCI-60 cancer cell panel
Cancer cell lethality screen
PDX-derived primary lethality screen
Cancer stem cell lethality imaging in mix-culture system
PD-1/PD-L1 Bl1ock assay

High Content Screening (HCS)

Cell viability assay 3D culture system
Apoptosis assay
Translocation activity of target molecules
Detection of changing cell organelles
Detection of DNA damage assay
Cancer cell lethality imaging screen
Primary lethality imaging screen
Cancer stem cell lethality imaging in mix-culture system

Service

  • Phenotype/target-based screening setup
  • Accelerated drug discovery through HTS campaigns
  • Automated/optimized efficacy test for new anticancer agents
  • in vitro efficacy evaluation of development compounds using the NCI-60 cancer cell panel
  • Selection of hit compounds or target cancer types

Target enzyme / Phenotype-based screen

Automation and optimization of in vitro efficacy evaluation for anti-cancer drugs

Service example

  • Screening of apoptosis inducing drugs based on high-throughput screening

Overview

Analysis of caspase-3 activation images to evaluate the cancer cell apoptosis-inducing capability of the developing drug.

Design

- Automatic seeding of test cells

- Drug treatment, washing, and cell fixing

- Staining with cleaved caspase-3 antibody and image acquisition using HCS

Result

- Caspase-3 cleavage induced by anticancer candidate was detected and interpreted as apoptosis

- Compared to the DMSO control, anticancer candidate demonstrated superior apoptosis-inducing ability, particularly in Huh7 drug