ProtonDx, a spinout from Imperial College London, develops rapid, portable diagnostic platforms designed to improve access to testing in both human and animal health.
As ProtonDx expanded the use of its technology across multiple markets, it needed a manufacturing and fulfilment partner for its diagnostic kits: one that could support product rollout without pulling internal scientific and commercial teams away from innovation and customer development. Life Science Group (LSG) became that partner.
ProtonDx carries out its own research and development. Kit preparation at R&D scale works well in-house, but once a product becomes commercial and starts selling at volume, the picture changes. ProtonDx did not have the space or the capability to prepare kits at large scale.
Producing, labelling, dispensing, assembling, storing and shipping kits internally would have put increasing pressure on a team whose strengths are innovation and customer development. At the same time, customer opportunities in diagnostics can emerge quickly, often needing validation batches or pilot quantities at short notice.
ProtonDx needed a scale-up partner: one that could take each product from the research environment into consistent, quality-managed manufacture, and then handle everything that follows.
When a ProtonDx product reaches the commercial stage, LSG transfers kit preparation from ProtonDx's research environment into LSG's quality-aligned manufacturing environment. Manufacturing under LSG's GMP-aligned processes and ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 certified quality systems gives ProtonDx consistent, high-quality kits at commercial volumes. Manufacturing responsibilities include:
LSG's role goes beyond manufacture. LSG stores finished kits and dispatches them directly to ProtonDx's customers, managing logistics and fulfilment on ProtonDx's behalf. This includes:
With manufacture, storage and fulfilment in one place, ProtonDx has a single, fully outsourced operational solution. Production schedules can also be adjusted as new opportunities arise, supporting customer evaluations, validation programmes and pilot projects without ProtonDx investing in manufacturing capacity of its own.
The result is that ProtonDx can stay focused on research, development and commercialising its diagnostic platform, while LSG manages the operational complexity behind the scenes.
The ProtonDx partnership shows how LSG supports diagnostics companies as products move from development into commercial deployment, acting as a scale-up partner rather than simply a supplier. Relevant capabilities include:
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Often at the point a product becomes commercial and starts selling at volume. R&D-scale kit preparation can be done in-house, but consistent manufacture at scale needs space, capacity and a quality-managed environment that many growing companies do not have.
Transferring kit preparation from a research setting into a quality-aligned manufacturing environment, with defined processes for dispensing, assembly, labelling and packaging, so every kit is made consistently at higher volumes.
Diagnostic kit assembly brings together all of a test's components – reagents, tubes, consumables, labels and instructions – into finished, branded kits ready for the end user.
Yes. LSG can store finished kits and dispatch them directly to your customers, managing stock, logistics and fulfilment on your behalf.
Yes. LSG adjusts production schedules to supply validation batches and pilot quantities for customer evaluations, as well as larger volumes for commercial rollout.