Fortis Life Sciences partners with diagnostics and life sciences companies to design, validate, and manufacture solutions to solve their complex development problems. Fortis’ tailored approach and end-to-end capabilities accelerate the work of its customers as they bring the next generation of medicines and diagnostics to market. Fortis serves a global customer base and has offices across North America, including four R&D sites and three GMP and ISO 13485 compliant manufacturing facilities.
Fortis Brands
Bethyl Laboratories - Antibodies Made In-House
Bethyl Laboratories, Inc. supports science through its qualified antibody products and custom antibody services. Since its founding in 1972, Bethyl has been an original manufacturer of its antibodies, producing them on-site to exacting standards with in-house validation by Bethyl’s team of scientists. Currently, Bethyl’s portfolio consists of over 9'500 catalog products, with antibodies raised against immunoglobulins from over 25 species.
nanoComposix - Nanomaterials for Biodiagnostics
nanoComposix specializes in the production of nanocomposite metal and metal-oxide nanomaterials that are monodisperse, unagglomerated, and have unique optical properties.
The product portfolio contains hundreds of different variants of materials, sizes, shapes, and surfaces backed by extensive technical documentation and support. Development services are provided by a technical team with extensive expertise in nanotechnology, biology, chemistry, physics, and optics. nanoComposix produced the NIST nanosilver reference material and its materials have been utilized in over 3'000 peer-reviewed publications. All materials are supplied with certificates of analysis that include electron microscopy, hydrodynamic diameter, and optical data for each batch to guarantee products meet specifications.
Abcore - At the Core of Scientific Discovery
Abcore is a leader in antibody discovery using phage display technology and developing single-domain antibodies. They have collaborated with major global pharmaceutical companies on early-stage drug development and antibody discovery. Abcore has established a robust antibody discovery platform that utilizes both naïve and immunized antibody libraries.
AbNano™ VHH Naïve Library from Fortis Life Sciences® is a fully natural, single-domain naïve library with source material from camelids and the antibodies displayed on monovalent phage. It offers the advantage of a higher diversity in framework regions compared to synthetic libraries and a CDRH3 length distribution similar to that found in humans. To support you in your scientific journey, Abcore also provides custom VHH discovery services.
Empirical Bioscience
Empirical Bioscience develops and manufactures enzymes, proteins, and reagents for molecular biology and life science applications, such as qPCR, isothermal amplification, reverse transcription, NGS, cloning, and sample processing. They provide a comprehensive range of products that can be tailored to customer specifications and offer technical support for the development and launch of assays and products. As a contract manufacturer, Empirical is equipped to produce custom recombinant proteins, assay mixtures, and support reagents. They assist with all phases of customer development, from custom protein expression and purification to small-scale production and large-scale manufacturing.
Arista Biologicals
Arista Biologicals is a leading manufacturer and supplier of rapid diagnostic reagents, components, and equipment for membrane-based assays. They specialize in designing, developing, and manufacturing reagents for the rapid diagnostic test industry, with a focus on serving diagnostic kit manufacturers. Their reagents include colloidal gold conjugates, antigens, and antibodies for assays related to fertility, drug abuse, and infectious diseases. Additionally, Arista provides custom solutions for applications in veterinary medicine, agriculture, environmental testing, tumor markers, and various disease states. The services encompass consultation, custom conjugations with colloidal gold, and tailored assay development for both lateral flow and flow-through formats.
iPOC DX
International Point of Care Incorporated (iPOC) is at the forefront of providing innovative solutions to the in-vitro diagnostics industry and the R&D community. Specializing in rapid point-of-care testing, they offer contract IVD manufacturing, supply of lateral flow components (including their advanced PrimeCare™ blood separation membrane), and custom lyophilization services. iPOC's facility is equipped for commercial-scale production, allowing them to deliver high-capacity, custom-configured lyophilized beaded reagents (LBRs) to healthcare clients worldwide, ensuring compliance, high quality, and quick market launch while adapting to growing production demands.
Vector Biolabs
Vector Biolabs is committed to providing top-quality AAVs and adenoviruses to drive scientific advancement. With 20 years of accumulated expertise, their dedicated PhD scientists are well-versed in the complexities of AAV vector design and ready to help you tackle your research challenges and accelerate your progress.
Their offering covers comprehensive custom services for recombinant AAV and adenovirus, including vector design, cloning, packaging, production, and purification. Furthermore, they provide a large amount of ready-to-use recombinant adenoviruses and AAVs, e.g. for gene expression, delivery of miRNA, shRNA silencing, and CRISPR/Cas9.
