Preclinical Studies

Our Preclinical Services:

Translational studies

With Pelago Bioscience’s CETSA®-powered translational services, you can seamlessly extend your research from simplified systems to biologically relevant contexts. Our technology measures target engagement directly within cell lines, animal tissues, and human primary cells—providing a clear picture of how your compound performs in environments that better reflect real-world conditions. These insights help you make confident, evidence-based decisions, increasing the likelihood of clinical success and reducing the risks associated with trial failures. 

Key Benefits 

Streamlined Progression to Clinical Trials – Make informed, data-driven decisions that minimize costly trial failures and accelerate development timelines. 

Physiologically Relevant Validation – Confirm target engagement across cell lines, animal tissues, and human-derived systems for reliable translational insights. 

Reduced Development Risk—Validating efficacy in complex biological environments Strengthens confidence in your compound’s clinical potential. 

In vivo target engagement

This data-driven approach offers a comprehensive view of drug distribution, bioavailability, and on-target interaction within living systems. The result is faster, more confident decision-making—helping you assess efficacy and safety before entering human trials. 

Key Benefits 

Accelerated Preclinical Decision-Making – Increase confidence in advancing compounds with proven efficacy and safety profiles before clinical trials. 

Direct In Vivo Validation – Accurately measure target engagement within living organisms, providing meaningful data on drug behaviour. 

Enhanced Drug Distribution Insights – Evaluate whether your compound reaches and engages its intended site of action across tissues and organs. 

Biomarker discovery

Integrating CETSA into your biomarker discovery efforts can improve clinical success rates, optimize treatment strategies, and contribute to better patient survival outcomes. 

Key Benefits 

Clinically Relevant Validation – Ensure biomarkers are applicable by testing in patient-derived materials throughout development. 

Unbiased Biomarker Discovery – Identify novel biomarkers linked to drug response through comprehensive proteome-wide profiling. 

Enhanced Precision Medicine Support – Discover biomarkers that help predict patient response and guide personalized treatment strategies. 

"Pelago Bioscience offers exceptional technical expertise in all aspects of target deconvolution using CETSA – including study design, sample preparation, LC-MS data acquisition, and statistical processing. Our collaboration always proceeded effectively due to Pelago Bioscience's responsiveness, scientific commitment, and dedication to clients resulting in delivery of impactful scientific results."

Benjamin Fontaine, Senior Scientist

LifeMine Therapeutics

"Using our world leading expertise in CETSA we have created a faster and more efficient drug discovery process. We take great pride in knowing our customers are bringing new medicines to market more quickly thanks to our help."

Michael Dabrowski, CEO and Co-founder

Pelago Bioscience

"Chemoproteomics is like taking a watch to pieces and counting the cogs – it doesn't tell you which cogs drive which process and how the wider system works. This is why using CETSA can add so much value to your target identification studies."

Pär Nordlund, Professor and Inventor of CETSA

Karolinska Institute

"CETSA data is a keystone in our SAR analysis, and by assessing cellular target engagement of our compounds across multiple cell lines we gain confidence in our project prioritizations."

Peter Joyce, CEO and Co-Founder

Grey Wolf Therapeutics

"Our small molecule drug discovery project was seeking a robust assay allowing to screen against the target of interest expressed in its natural cellular environment. Pelago Bioscience's expertise in drug discovery projects, specifically in the CETSA platform and high throughput screens was the key to achieving our goals. We found Pelago's team to be professional, knowledgeable, flexible and dedicated. We highly recommend Pelago Bioscience for drug discovery projects."

Po-Shun Lee, Chief Medical Officer

Generian