List of Biostorage/Biorepositories Companies in Ireland - 2

At Biostór Ireland Ltd, our success is driven by a culture of collaboration, innovation and determination. We believe in progressive thinking, in challenging ourselves and each other, with the goal of enhancing patient outcomes and patient lives. Our mission is to serve our customers with the highest quality, ethics and practices, and to provide best in class customer service & client experience. We are a Bio repository for temperature critical storage of bio materials & a choice of controlled storage conditions down to -196°C (Liquid Nitrogen Vapour) and a range of validated cold-chain distribution services. Biostór is validated to GMP standards. The Quality Management System is designed to comply with applicable EU & US regulations and international standards: ISO 13485:2003. The company has been audited and approved by major US FDA regulated multinational pharmaceutical companies. Our operations are subject to stringent regulation as set down by EU Tissues & Cells Directives. In March 2008 the facility was inspected and accredited by the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) as a Tissue Establishment for the GTP storage and distribution of Human Tissues and Cells for human application throughout the 27 member countries of the EU. Biostór can cater for a wide range of sample types: Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and Finished Products, Clinical Trial Samples, Donor Materials, Plasma, Serum and Body Fluids, Human Tissues and Cell Products i.e., Bone Marrow, Cord Blood & Reproductive Cells. The company currently maintains the national archive of Bone Marrow, Peripheral Stem Cells and Donor Lymphocytes for the country's main cancer hospital. Biostór Ireland is located at Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford, 2km from the international Europort with fast road/ferry transit times to UK & Europe, 2 hours by road from Dublin/Cork airports with overnight courier service to all European centres. The store has a current capacity for 5 million biological samples.

Metabolomic Diagnostics is a deep-tech company specialised in the development of novel biomarker based diagnostic solutions for complex diseases. The company has developed an effective pipeline to firstly identify diagnostic biomarker panels and then translate these panels into clinical assays ready for application in the clinical laboratory. Metabolomic Diagnostics’ primary vision is to develop a portfolio of diagnostic solutions which can determine, early in a woman’s pregnancy, her risk of developing major complications much later in her pregnancy and thus enabling personalized care, adapted to each woman’s individual needs. Pregnancy complications like preeclampsia, gestational diabetes, preterm birth, and in-uterine growth restriction, all have the potential to severely impact on the well-being of mother and child.