CD-ELISA™

Target Markets

The customer for the CD-ELISA™ is the small- to medium-sized user, executing assays in 96-well microtiter plates at the rate of about 100 – 1000 per year. Users in this range are located in universities, private research organizations, startup companies, small and medium-sized companies, and in smaller work groups of large companies. BioLOC™ estimates there are 8,000 potential customer locations fitting this description. They perform a wide variety of analyses including:

  • medical diagnostics and medical research
  • pharmaceutical development
  • food safety
  • environmental monitoring
  • homeland security

Studies by others and BioLOC’s own estimates suggest that the market to which CD-ELISA™ is targeted is as large as $1 billion per year.

Factors that will drive users to CD-ELISA™ all contribute in one way or another to reduced cost and are summarized in the table below.

Comparison dimension Manual ELISA Fully automated ELISA CD-ELISA™
Planning required
Moderate
High
Moderate
Labor content
High
Low
Low
Risk of errors
High
Low
Low
Reagent consumption per assay
High
High
Low
Capital investment
Low
High
Low
Variable cost per test
High – reagents
plus labor
Moderate - reagents
Low
Total cost per test (Variable plus Fixed) High High Moderate

 

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