Applications labs

Our Applications Labs bring cell biology, process development, and engineering together to help advanced therapy teams de-risk processes and prepare for automation-ready, GMP manufacturing.

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Our Approach

Applications Labs designed to support automation-ready CGT manufacturing

Our Applications Labs are purpose-built to support the unique demands of working with living cells. Designed for advanced cell and gene therapy programs, they bring science and engineering together to help ensure every system is automation-ready, scalable, and aligned with GMP expectations.

By integrating cell biology, process development, and engineering within a single environment, we help you de-risk process design, integrate automation early, and accelerate readiness for clinical and commercial manufacturing. Located in San Diego, our Applications Labs feature BSL-2 laboratories, ISO 7 cleanrooms, and integrated development infrastructure, enabling speed, quality, and scalability across development stages.

A lower risk path to process readiness

Our Applications Labs services help you reduce technical and scale up risk across three practical areas:

Process informed development

We work with you to understand your process, critical parameters, and quality attributes. This gives you a stronger development baseline, clearer design decisions, and better repeatability as you scale.

Closed and automated workflows

We help move open or manual steps into closed, automated platforms tailored to your unit operations. This reduces operator burden, improves consistency, and prepares your process for GMP aligned manufacturing.

Integrated execution

We connect individual unit operations into a cohesive workflow, helping you translate early development into scalable, automation ready manufacturing.

Applications Lab Capabilities

Our Applications Labs support a range of advanced therapy development activities, including:

BSL-2 cell handling, storage, expansion, and cryopreservation
Process characterization, optimization and analysis of cell quality characteristics
Integration of unit operations into end-to-end workflows
Evaluation of off-the-shelf components and prototype systems

Confidence in quality and scalability

Our cell biologists and engineers work in close collaboration with you to ensure processes developed in our Applications Labs are scalable, reproducible, and aligned with GMP expectations. By integrating automation early and building robust process understanding, we help you reduce risk, control variability, and move forward with confidence.

Why Invetech

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medical devices designed under IEC 62366

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international design awards

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formative and summative usability studies

Research, design, and validation in the same room.

Our UX team designs alongside the industrial design, software, and human-factors engineering teams that have to deliver on the experience. The design we research and prototype in week one is buildable, validatable, and submittable. Not a deliverable that gets quietly redesigned during integration. And because IEC 62366 alignment is the default, summative validation is something we plan for, not retrofit to.

Areas of Expertise

User Research

Reveal user needs and opportunity spaces through contextual and usability research

Industrial Design

Imagine and design complete product visions, physical architectures and intuitive user interfaces that are styled according to existing or newly created brand design language, ready for manufacture

Digital Design

Design intuitive, branded digital experiences that seamlessly support the user and manage the broader system

Human Factors Engineering

Mitigate use‑related risks and generate documentation that adheres to FDA guidance and IEC 62366‑1 requirements

Information Architecture & Workflow Design

How the instrument’s tasks, screens, and physical interactions are organized into a workflow the user can hold in their head.

Client Outcomes

Product Strategy

Explore strategic possibilities, define a purposeful vision and a path to realization

Worfklow Transformation
Co-creation Workshops
Product & Feature Roadmapping

We partnered with Hologic to reimagine cervical cancer diagnosis user experience with an Al assisted digital cytology workflow

Image courtesy of HOLOGIC, Inc. and affiliates

Research & Human Factors

Uncover unmet user needs and assess usability within healthcare environments

Discovery Research
Usability Evaluations
Human Factors Engineering

Global molecular diagnostics client

We helped a health-tech business to iteratively design and test usability of a Point of Care device for use in multiple US healthcare settings.

Concept Visualizations

Visualize ideas to inspire and align your stakeholders

Digital Design
Industrial Design
Virtual Reality Experiences

Design Challenge

We imagined the future vision of a 2030 sepsis diagnosis laboratory

Product Design & Implementation

Design and deliver physical and digital offerings to your customers

Interaction Design
UI/UX (User Experience)
Styling

We worked together with Leica Biosystems to desian, develop and realize the physical interactions and styling of the BOND-PRIME

Related Capabilities

Regulatory Ready

Invetech delivers regulatory ready development and manufacturing solutions for diagnostics, medtech and cell & gene therapies,

Strategic Program Management

With the shared goal of making your product a success, we allow the flexibility to change

Systems Engineering

Systems engineering is incredibly important and needs to be implemented from the start. It’s the guide

Product Lifecycle Management

We have a proven track record of successfully designing and integrating fluidic systems within products ranging

Consumable Design

Microfluidic cartridge design plays a key role in the successful development of a complete IVD system

Fluidics