Sapien Biosciences

Hyderabad, Telangana based Sapien Biosciences is a joint venture between Apollo Hospitals & Saarum Innovations to create a world-class biobank and personalized medicine company that leverages Saarum Innovation’s global life sciences research expertise with Apollo’s pan-India network of accredited multi-specialty hospitals and patient care. Their mission is to develop novel clinical diagnostics and provide bio-specimen and real-world data services to promote R&D that improves patient outcomes. Their Product Offerings: MetBlock - Novel model of metastasis (EMT); Breast cancer model with in-built readouts; Screening drugs for metastasis & cancer stem cells; OncoBlocTM – Well curated FFPE collections - Well curated collection of FFPE blocks with associated patient data & disease pathology; Custom requirements - Breast cancer and normal tissue, Head & Neck, Glioma; More than ~30,000 patients’ blocks in inventory; Over 0.5 million samples available across Apollo network that can be accessed per requirement; Establishing acquisition beyond Apollo for specific requirements; TruCell™ – Primary cells derived from patient samples - TruCell is our portfolio for Primary cells derived from patients or healthy volunteers. With stringent quality control parameters and optimized culture protocols, get access to patient samples in your lab for cell-based assays; TruScreen™ – Custom assays using patient derived samples - Custom models using patient cells to provide physiological assay systems. Suitable for screening compounds for better clinical outcome & to study action on true disease phenotype.