Spun-out of Q3DM, Vala Sciences Inc is a biotechnology company developing for sale to to academic, pharmaceutical and biotechnology scientists cell-image-based reagents and analysis software tools . Vala has developed intellectual property that enables information-rich high throughput measurements for making fundamentally new insights into cell function The firm's cell-image-based instrumentation, high content screening services, reagents and analysis software tools The firm provide svaried and validated high content screening services that quantify the effects of compound libraries on a number of target molecules. Also offered arecardioxicity screens with the firm's novel Kinetic Image Cytometer (KIC) and software, which allows for live imaging of cardiomyocytes and provides robust data for identifying pro-arrhythmic compounds early in drug discovery, The firm is currently participating in the EPA ToxCast program and have been rated "exceptional" for their performance.
