Technology applications

After a heart attack or stroke, routine prescription of anti-platelet drugs to suppress platelet function can be effective, though in some patients they are in-effective leading to additional heart attacks or strokes, or can lead to bleeding complications.

• Using TRIPLEcheck™ to stratify patients based on biomarkers. TRIPLEcheck is a robust marker of platelet function based on surface receptors that isn’t affected by acute changes in platelet function. Being developed for use in heart attacks and stroke to reduce secondary thrombosis and bleeding complications 


• PLANA™ provides accurate assessment of platelet function and response to anti platelet drugs to ensure optimal therapy is being developed to analyse bleeding disorders and in clinical conditionals such as ITP

Platelets travel to every tissue and organ in the body. They react to changes in health status, disease progressions, and the on and off-target effects of a wide range of drugs.

This makes platelets the ideal biomarker for assessing efficacy and side effects.

• TRIPLEcheck™ for patient selection prior to clinical trials

• PLANA™ is the first platelet function test specifically designed for clinical trials allowing multi parameter tests to be formed everywhere every time everyone using both venous and fingerpick blood 

Understand the haemostatic and thrombotic impact of compounds within screening libraries - essential for identifying potential therapeutic candidates or off target effects at an early stage.

• PLANA™ can be used for screening compound libraries and identifying efficacy for anti-platelet drugs and off target effects of non-platelet drugs. Results can be confirmed using an array of tests from Discovery HaemAnalytics

Investigate mechanisms of haemostasis and thrombosis and evaluate the effects of novel compounds or therapeutic strategies on platelet activity, thrombosis and bleeding. HaemAnalytica will provide you with in-house platelet expertise.

• Combination of PLANA™ and Discovery Haemanalytics provides platelet expertise for all research groups.