Drug Discovery and Development
Transform your drug candidates into market-ready products faster with comprehensive support throughout the development lifecycle. Our integrated services platform delivers flexible, personal, and cost-effective solutions that accelerate timelines, reduce costs, and maintain quality from development through commercialization. Our experts tackle your most challenging chemical development issues with proven experience and innovative approaches.
What is Drug Discovery and Development at Element?
Drug development encompasses the journey of bringing potential therapeutics to market. At Element, we provide specialized services supporting critical phases of development, with particular strength in API manufacturing and pre-clinical microbiology testing to advance your products efficiently.
What Can Element Offer You For Drug Discovery and Development?
Key tests offered
Key tests offered
We provide antibacterial/antifungal spectrum analysis, resistance studies, and bacteriophage assays. Our microbiology testing utilizes over 500,000 well-characterized isolates for thorough compound evaluation.
Pre-clinical microbiology services:
- Antibacterial/Antifungal spectrum and potency
- Passaging and mutational single-step resistance studies
- MBC and kill-curve methods
- Synergy and drug interaction studies
- Disk development
- Methods development and media effects
- Broth microdilution, agar dilution, disk diffusion, and gradient strip correlations and regression analyses
- Quality control organism range studies
- Special isolate collections
- Bacteriophage assays, including spot testing, culture lysis, and spectrum studies
Products we test
Products we test
Our testing capabilities cover pharmaceutical compounds from early-stage candidates to commercial APIs. We specialize in DEA-regulated compounds, investigational drugs, and non-traditional therapies, offering analysis throughout development.
Methods and solutions offered
Methods and solutions offered
Our development solutions support your drug candidates' journey to commercialization. We combine technical expertise and specialized capabilities to address your specific development challenges throughout the process.
Drug development:
API manufacturing
- Process and Analytical development
- cGMP kilo lab: Phase I through commercial
- DEA-regulated APIs
- Commercial product
Drug product
- Analytical method development and validation
Pre-clinical microbiology lab services:
Fulfil your NDA requirements and optimize new investigational compounds and non-traditional therapies. Answer important questions regarding the activity of your compound and achieve development plans with microbiology studies tailored to your needs, incorporating parameters and a vast collection of well-characterized (>500,000) isolates.
Cutting-edge equipment we use
Cutting-edge equipment we use
Our specialized facilities support API development and manufacturing, featuring advanced analytical instrumentation and processing equipment designed for pharmaceutical applications. Our laboratory infrastructure enables precise testing and manufacturing of regulated compounds with consistent quality control.
Which labs offer this service
Which labs offer this service
Our team operates from Life Sciences hubs across the world, providing global access to our expert capabilities. Find your nearest Life Sciences hub on our Locations Page.
Standards we test to and products we test
- cGMP (current Good Manufacturing Practice) requirements
- DEA regulations
- Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)
- DEA-regulated compounds
- Investigational compounds
- Non-traditional therapies
- Clinical trial materials
- Fragment compounds
- Bacteriophage products
Your Challenges, Our Solutions
Market acceleration
Development expertise at work
Resource optimization
Technical continuity
Why Choose Element
Global reach with local expertise
Specialized technical expertise
Quality-driven approach
Proven analytical methods
