About Us

Re-Inventing Drug Discovery

Drug discovery research is highly inefficient. It’s too expensive, too slow and too likely to fail. We founded Assay Depot because we believe that broad access to low cost, high quality drug discovery services can address this inefficiency and (ultimately) lower costs, reduce cycle times and improve clinical success rates.

What Is Assay Depot?

Assay Depot operates the world’s largest online marketplace for drug discovery research services. Researchers use the marketplace to find, compare and purchase services from hundreds of contract research organizations (CROs). CROs use the marketplace to offer their services to the global research community.

About Our Company

We are a privately held San Diego-based company whose mission is to dramatically improve the efficiency of drug discovery research. We know firsthand how difficult and heart-breaking drug discovery research can be. We’re here to help increase your chances of making a breakthrough discovery.

Value Proposition

Finding the right CRO and then negotiating prices and legal agreements can be a time-consuming and costly process. At assaydepot.com, we make this process fast, efficient and FREE. We have already executed a legal agreement with all of the CROs on the marketplace. You simply compare detailed service descriptions online (including prices and turn-around times), use customer reviews to help you make a choice and then place your order in a few mouse clicks. In addition to ordering online, you can also request quotes for custom services, track order progress and retrieve data reports. The efficiency gain is enormous because you can find, order and manage all the services you need from a single secure website.

Ask An Expert

If a service you want is not yet listed on the marketplace, our team of drug discovery experts will help you find it. Our service locator program is free. If you are happy with our help, please remember Assay Depot the next time you or a colleague needs a research service.

Diverse Customer Base

A diverse group of researchers in the global research community uses the marketplace, including biologists, chemists, pharmacologists, and toxicologists from universities, biotechnology companies, “virtual” drug discovery companies and pharmaceutical companies. We accept credit card payments or purchase orders. It’s easy to set up an Assay Depot purchase account.

More For Less

We have re-designed the entire customer experience to make it simpler and less time-consuming. We carry out back-office functions such as legal agreements, service listings and invoices. You focus on the science. What’s more, researchers are never charged any fees. Assay Depot makes money by charging the CROs a small commission on any orders that are placed through the marketplace. This will never result in a higher price for you as we have a best price guarantee from all of the CROs on the marketplace.

The Future

Since the marketplace offers services that span the entire drug discovery process, Assay Depot will ultimately make it possible for a company (or even a single scientist) to run a multi-year drug discovery program from a laptop computer. That day is not too far off.