About Us
EDDC launched its Fee-for-Service initiative, the EDDC Academic Research Organisation (EARO), in late 2020. This endeavour is part of EDDC’s larger goal of facilitating the translation of lab science into commercial assets in Singapore, by engaging local biotech, biopharma, and public-funded research groups.
EARO aims to drive the innovation and advancement of translational drug discovery in Singapore and to enable our scientific community to do so cost-effectively by providing access to EDDC’s specialised technologies, expertise, and connections.
3 Pillars of Our Mission & Philosophy
Platforms
Services
Technologies
Articles & Resources
While EARO supports projects at all stages of the drug discovery pathway, it has 3 core platforms for on-demand service.
High Throughput Screening
Screen from small focus sets to large diverse collections to rapidly identify hits for your target of interest using the only fully integrated automation platform in Singapore.
High Throughput Phenomics
Leverage the power of imaging in your drug screening assays to measure thousands of cellular features and gain valuable insights into MoA and complex disease biology.
Compound Hub
On-Demand Service Offering
EARO Services primarily support projects in the early-stages of the drug discovery process from target discovery and validation, hit identification to early structural analysis of target-hit interaction in a collaborative environment.
Expert consultation for all aspects of drug screening campaigns is available, from selecting the most appropriate assays that combine target-class and cell biology, establishing appropriate quality control parameters for validation to miniaturising and optimising the automation.
The services are not limited to the ones listed below, please write to us for custom-designed assays.
Industry-leading Technologies for On-Demand Access
EARO offers a wide range of state-of-the-art technologies in compound storage & management, liquid handling workflows, automation of biochemical, cell- and image-based assays to fast-track your target validation, hit-finding, and most other nodes of early-stage drug discovery phases.
Leverage EARO Technologies by getting supervised or unsupervised access to these instruments with complete walkaway automation or modular formats for maximum control.