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 research services and to request information from thousands of contract research organizations (CROs). CROs and other service providers use the marketplace to offer their services and products to the global research community. Assay Depot also custom designs, builds and operates private contract research exchanges (CRXs) for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, research universities and other large research organizations.

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 research services from the best research vendors can be a time-consuming and costly process. At assaydepot.com, we make this process fast, efficient and FREE. You simply search or browse the site, compare detailed service descriptions online (often including prices and turn-around times), use customer reviews to help you make a choice, and ask questions, request price quotes or place orders in just a few mouse clicks. The efficiency gain is enormous because you can get information about all the services and vendors you need from a single easy-to-use 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.

More Science For Less

We have re-designed the entire customer experience to make it simpler and less time-consuming. We do all the research to find out about the latest services and vendors. You focus on the science. What’s more, researchers are never charged any fees. Assay Depot makes money by charging the CROs a small monthly fee to advertise their services 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.