Cellvax Expands its Preclinical Service Offers by Moving to a New Laboratory Facility With an Access to Large Animals and a Number of New Technical Plat-Forms

31/03/2010 20:33

PR Newswire

PARIS, March 31, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellvax is a French service company which provides complete in

vitro & in vivo preclinical innovating services allowing to accelerate the

drug development process for unmet needs related with severe human diseases,

mainly in oncology field.

Cellvax was created in 2001 as a French SME by a motivated and

complementary team consisting of scientists and experts in these fields. By

offering its know-how and its capacity of innovation, Cellvax has

successfully accomplished numerous in vitro and in vivo studies for different

companies in Europe, Israel and in the world.

Cellvax's expertise is based on its know-how in in vitro

models, especially original in vivo models. These services can be offered to

all laboratories involving in anti-cancer drug development process. These

proposed services adapt to the validation and development of anti-cancer drug

candidates and are fully validated such as sub-cutaneous and orthotopic

tumors models in animals; in vitro and in vivo angiogenesis models; an

original "Nodule" system, tumor invasion tests, in vivo imaging,

bio-distribution, pharmacokinetics, toxicity, histological analysis,

biomarker studies, ...

Cellvax is always ready to obey market evolution and to

satisfy its customers' specific needs all over the world. In order to enhance

its development and continuously satisfy its customers, Cellvax has recently

moved to a new laboratory facility, just on the border of Paris, inside

"Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire Alfort" (ENVA). The ENVA is one of the oldest

and largest veterinary universities in Europe, created in 1766, with an easy

access by subway. The ENVA is located on a large surface of 110 000 metres

squared, with more than one thousand people (Scientists, Professors,

technicians, students, ...) working here. In this new facility, Cellvax is

able to provide to its customers a number of new services especially with

different species of animals (mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, minipigs, etc.),

spontaneous naturally-developed tumors, in vivo imaging plat-forms, MRI,

Scanner, Scintigraphy, histological analysis, biomarkers.

In summary, Cellvax is able to provide to its customers the

services not only in small animals, but also in large animals in a more

efficient way.

Contact Cellvax: Ming Wei, Ph.D.

President & CEO

Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire Alfort

Telephone: +33-(0)1-43-76-32-65; Mobile: +33-(0)6-71-43-47-51.

E-mail: ming@cellvax-pharma.com

Web Site: http://www.cellvax-pharma.com/

Contact Cellvax: Ming Wei, Ph.D.: President & CEO, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire Alfort, Telephone: +33-(0)1-43-76-32-65; Mobile: +33-(0)6-71-43-47-51, E-mail: ming@cellvax-pharma.com

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