Academic case study on Nav1.9 as a drug target by Associate Professor David Bulmer (University of Cambridge). Overview of Metrion’s newly developed Nav1.9 screening assays by Metrion CSO, Dr. Eddy Stevens.
Enhance predictive accuracy, reduce false negatives and late-stage failures for safer drug development with improved preclinical-to-clinical translationRecordings using voltage-sensitive dye (VSD) with quality equivalent to patch-clamp are crucial for assessing cardiovascular risk in drug discovery. They provide a high-fidelity, high-throughput alternative to traditional electrophysiology techniques.
VSD-based recordings offer non-invasive, high-resolution measurements of membrane potential changes across a large number of cells or wells simultaneously, enabling faster and more efficient cardiac safety screening. This approach ensures precise detection of drug-induced effects on cardiac ion channels, such as hERG (IKr), Nav1.5, and Cav1.2, which are critical for evaluating proarrhythmic risk.
The ability to achieve patch-clamp-equivalent data quality using VSD enhances predictive accuracy, reducing false negatives and late-stage failures, and supports safer drug development with improved preclinical-to-clinical translation.
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Academic case study on Nav1.9 as a drug target by Associate Professor David Bulmer (University of Cambridge). Overview of Metrion’s newly developed Nav1.9 screening assays by Metrion CSO, Dr. Eddy Stevens.
Alex Haworth, Senior Scientist at Metrion, introduces a poster demonstrating Metrion's development of a monoclonal CHO cell line expressing hNav1.9, validated via manual and automated patch clamp techniques.