Overview
Visikol is a contract research services company that is focused on accelerating the drug discovery and development process through providing its clients with advanced tissue imaging and advanced cell culture services. Today, Visikol counts the top twenty pharmaceutical companies as clients and has been instrumental in dozens of drug discovery programs.
The company provides end-to-end services that include 3D tissue imaging, multiplex tissue imaging, digital pathology, high content imaging, 2D cell culture assays, 3D cell culture assays and ex vivo tissue slice assays. Visikol’s expertise lies in both transforming tissues into actionable insights as well as bridging the gap between in vitro assays and in vivo results through the use of best-in-class cell culture models.
In addition to its services, Visikol sells a suite of tissue clearing reagents and kits as well as the HUREL® Micro Liver portfolio of primary hepatocyte liver models.
What makes us different?
Visikol differentiates itself through its expertise in advanced imaging and image analysis, 3D cell culture models and AI-enhanced digital pathology. The Visikol team has several patented and proprietary technologies for tissue imaging, tissue processing, and image analysis. Utilizing a suite of tools custom developed for image processing, the Visikol team uses advanced automated and AI-enhanced image processing techniques to quantitatively analyze bioimaging data. We work closely with our Clients as an extension of their drug discovery team and work to develop customized research plans that best address their specific research question.
How we started
The inspiration for Visikol began at Rutgers University in the fall of 2012 when Visikol Co-Founder Dr. Tom Villani first developed the Visikol tissue clearing reagents for use with a wide range of tissues. These reagents have been used by hundreds of research groups from all around the world from the jungles of Rwanda, researchers in the Arctic Circle, to researchers at major research institutions such as La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, Cedars-Sinai, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania, and NIH. Today, Visikol has developed into a leading contract research services business that leverages its expertise in imaging, image analysis and advanced in vitro models to provide best-in-class services to its pharmaceutical and biotech Clients.
Joining BICO
Visikol joined the BICO family through acquisition in 2021.
BICO is a lab automation partner and provider of selected workflows to pharma and biotech.
With 46,000+ instruments installed in over 65 countries, BICO products, software, and solutions are found in more than 3,500 laboratories, including the world’s top 20 pharmaceutical companies, and have been cited in over 12,000 publications.
Operating through three business areas – Lab Automation, Life Science Solutions, and Bioprinting – BICO strives towards the vision to enable and automate the life science lab of the future.
BICO is listed on Mid-Cap, Nasdaq Stockholm under BICO. www.bico.com
Our Clients Include
