Pharmaster

Our team consists of experienced medical doctors, life science researchers and friendly customer support personnel who provide state-of-the-art lab services to our customers.

We provide a variety of services to our customers including prospective biospecimen collection, clinical data collection, data management and analysis.

Yes, we have completed all our projects successfully. Check them here or you can also see the list of our scientific publications here.

We are happy to answer your questions. Do not hesitate to send an e-mail to info@pharmaster.hu .

Yes, we provide consulting services to work out the best solution for your needs.

Our experienced team identifies the most legally appropriate process according to the research needs.

Yes, after the identification of the appropriate process our engaged team assembles and submits the application documents.

We help you with the development of HIPAA-compliant informed consent forms, collection protocols and Case Report Forms (CRF).

The ethical approval process is usually ambiguous and complicated. With our expertise and experience we can significantly speed up this process, so we will save you both time and cost.

We offer prospective sample collection service and access to biospecimen collections as well through our established network.

We collect human blood and blood fractions, tissue, stool, urine, saliva and buccal cells, skin tissue scrapings.

Yes, our biospecimen collecting activity is not restricted to a certain disease area.

We acquire our biological samples from medical university hospitals according to the highest ethical standards.

The provided information is disease and sample specific, but includes the basic information such patient’s age, gender, and disease. For prospective collection you can define the required information.

We cannot provide you a list of available tissues as we have an established network of sources each specializing in different kinds of biospecimens at different cost. In order to provide you the required samples, we identify the possible options and give you the details necessary for decision making.

The available services are DNA/RNA isolation, agarose gel electrophoresis, fluorescence-based quantification and different PCR techniques.

Yes, our experienced team can do the design of gene-specific, short oligonucleotides and plasmids as well.

We are able to outsource NGS, microarray and mass spectrometry services to our international partners.

Yes, we are able to provide long-term storage of biological tissue, DNA and RNA samples.

We follow strict ethical guidelines on clinical data collection. The collected data is stored in our partner company’s very own secured database called SmartBiobank.

We collect information on the patient’s medical history, medication profile, physical examination results, laboratory results, images and medical imaging results, molecular diagnostic results & patient consents.

We provide 3 kinds of datasets: clinical data, sample data and follow-up data.

Yes, we follow the strictest ethical guidelines.

Yes, our team is very experienced in the field of data analysis, they provide a variety of services including raw data analysis, integration of data from different sources, data mining and biostatistics etc.

We use a data management system called SmartBiobank.

SmartBiobank is a web-based data management system designed to help clinicians, lab biologists and researchers to integrate translational research elements into one single system.

If you are interested in Smatbiobank, please contact our team.

AstridBio Technologies has been providing bioinformatic tools and services for biomarker discovery for six years. AstridBios first biobanking software was installed in 2008. The company has also been managing clinical sample collections since 2009.

Our servers are housed in secure, SSAE 16 certified data centers and we use SSL on all data connections. All data is stored on mirrored disks to prevent data loss.

Yes. Our systems and operating procedures are compliant with regulatory and security requirements such as 21 CFR Part 11 and HIPAA.

SmartBiobank requires users to input study data on patients in completely randomized patient/biospeciment ID codes. This ensures patient privacy; however, privacy issues are also dependent on the researcher’s study design.

Yes, data is saved at least once every 24 hours.

SmartBiobank can store, manage and analyze biospecimen data, clinical, experimental data (including genetic), demographic, environmental, social and lifestyle data.

All data is stored as an answer to a question (questionnaire form) that was created by the user. This is true even for attached files.

Informed consent can be stored as an attached file. If you want it to be compulsory in a project, just mark the relevant question as required information.