Equipment

MicroConstants has more liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) systems than any other bioanalytical Contract Research Organization (CRO) on the West Coast of the United States. The instrumentation at our facilities is state-of-the-art and is constantly upgraded to remain at the forefront of the industry.

Laboratory Equipment & Analytical Instrumentation

We have the following equipment at our laboratory in San Diego:

• 16 Waters LC/MS/MS systems
  • Xevo, Premier, Ultima, Micro, and Quattro LC
  • 6 systems coupled with Waters Acquity UPLC systems
  • 3 systems coupled with Spark Holland Symbiosis on-line SPE systems
• 7 HPLC systems with UV, diode array, and fluorescence detection capabilities
• 1 Waters QTof Premier
  • Coupled with Waters Acquity UPLC system
• MP Biomedicals FastPrep-24 Tissue Homogenizer
• 3 Microplate Readers
  • Molecular Devices SpectraMax Plus384 Absorbance Microplate Reader
  • BioTek ELx808 Absorbance Microplate Reader
  • BioTek FL600 Fluorescence Microplate Reader
• Shimadzu UV-VIS Recording Spectrophotometer

New Equipment Installations

Read the announcements below to learn more about our laboratory equipment purchases and how they have helped us improve our drug discovery and development support services:

• Installation of new Xevo® TQ-S LC/MS/MS system leads to improved sensitivity in bioanalytical method development (March 2011)
• MicroConstants expands its GLP bioanalytical capacity through the addition of a Waters Xevo® TQ MS system (June 2010)
• Addition of new QTof LC/MS/MS system enables MicroConstants to provide more definitive metabolite profiling and identification for in vitro experiments such as hepatocyte and microsome incubations (February 2009)