TransCure BioServices is a France-based contract research organization (CRO) specializing in preclinical research using humanized mouse models with reconstituted human immune systems. The company maintains a strategic collaboration with PhoenixBio.
This article provides an overview of TransCure BioServices’ core strengths and its portfolio of disease models.
TransCure BioServicessupports the development of novel therapiesby combining innovative scientific expertise with highly personalized project support. Emphasizing flexibility and transparency, the company leverages advanced mouse models to closely align preclinical studies with client-specific research objectives.
A defining strength of TransCure BioServices lies inits proprietary humanized mouse models, generated by engrafting human hematopoietic stem cells into immunodeficient mice. These models enable the evaluation of human-specific immune responses at the preclinical stage—an area that has traditionally been difficult to address using conventional animal models.
TransCure BioServices is committed to conducting responsible and ethical preclinical research and has beenfully accredited by AAALAC International since 2022.This accreditation reflects the company’s adherence to the highest standards of animal care and use. The company applies the principles of the 3Rs (Reduction, Refinement, and Replacement), using only the minimum number of animals required to generate high-quality and predictive data, while ensuring optimal housing and experimental conditions.
In addition, its Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) is composed of highly qualified scientists, veterinarians, technical staff, and animal welfare specialists, ensuring animal care practices and experimental procedures that exceed regulatory requirements.
TransCure BioServices develops advanced translational humanized mouse models with functional human immune systems. By engrafting CD34+ hematopoietic cells derived from human umbilical cord blood into highly immunodeficient mice,the company provides a powerful in vivo platform for evaluating human-specific immunotherapies.The company is doing so.
In addition to these models, TransCure BioServices offers a broad range of preclinical models, including standard immunodeficient and immunocompetent mouse models, dual-humanized mouse models, and humanized liver mouse models.TransCure BioServices made a significant contribution to a study led by Arianna Moiani and colleagues, published in Nature Communications. In this research, humanized mouse models engrafted with CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells were used to investigate sickle cell disease (SCD),enabling a more accurate recapitulation of human disease pathology.
This innovative preclinical approach allows for more precise evaluation of therapeutic candidates targeting hemoglobinopathies and associated complications.
TransCure BioServices is a French CRO dedicated to preclinical research using humanized mouse models. With more than 10 years of experience supporting preclinical studies across a wide range of advanced mouse models, the company possesses the scientific expertise and translational insight required to meet the complex needs of its clients.
| Address | Archamps Technopole, Bâtiment de l'Alliance, 74160 Archamps, France |
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| Tel | +33 (0)4 50 43 01 02 |
| Website | https://www.transcurebioservices.com/ |
In non-clinical development, the choice of contract research organization shapes the quality of the data and the time it takes to reach the next decision. Below, three CROs are introduced by the type of study they support: pharmacology (efficacy) studies, safety studies, and pharmacokinetic (PK/PD) studies. Each summary describes the services the company offers so that you can match a provider to your target and development objective.
SMC Laboratories is a specialized non-clinical CRO focused on in vivo pharmacology and efficacy studies using disease-relevant animal models, particularly in fibrosis, inflammation, metabolic diseases, and oncology.
SMC Laboratories offers models covering the liver, lung, kidney, intestine, and oncology. Its portfolio includes the proprietary STAM™ model for MASH, fibrosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Study plans are developed around the target biology, mechanism of action, disease stage, and development objective. Pharmacological endpoints can be combined with histopathology, biomarkers, and disease-specific readouts.
With experience from more than 1,000 studies for clients in 30 countries, SMC Laboratories supports programs from target validation and candidate selection through in vivo proof-of-concept studies.
Charles River provides non-clinical toxicology and safety assessment services for programs ranging from exploratory safety studies to IND-enabling development.
Services include single- and repeat-dose toxicology, dose-range finding, and general toxicology studies across multiple species and administration routes.
Charles River supports both non-GLP and GLP studies, allowing sponsors to progress from early safety characterization to studies intended for regulatory submissions.
Toxicology studies can be integrated with toxicokinetics, clinical pathology, histopathology, and safety pharmacology to support interpretation and IND-enabling safety packages.
Inotiv provides integrated PK/PD, DMPK, and bioanalytical services to characterize drug exposure and its relationship with pharmacological response.
PK studies characterize exposure, half-life, clearance, and other pharmacokinetic parameters needed to understand how a candidate behaves in the selected model.
Pharmacokinetic data can be combined with pharmacodynamic endpoints and bioanalysis to evaluate the relationship between drug exposure and pharmacological response.
Integrated DMPK, pharmacology, and safety information supports candidate comparison, dose selection, dosing-frequency optimization, and decisions about subsequent preclinical development.