Our Services
High Content Screening
Our viruses are especially suitable for high content screening campaign for the discovery of active compounds. We offer several screening models for antiviral discovery in human and animal health. We also propose screening services using your own models (such as oncolytic or gene therapy products) and our internal compound libraries (1280 FDA/EMEA approved compounds).
Classical Workflow:
- Assignment of a dedicated project manager
- Library collection and formatting if needed.
- Compound activity screening (several viral models and cell lines available).
- IC50/90 calculation, compound toxicity included. Specific measurements available on request (determination of oncolytic potential, viral inactivation, attachment, penetration, replication, cell to cell spread).
- Hit sorting
- Writing and transfer of final study report
- Rapidity: high throughput format (up to 1000 compounds/day)
- Multi-parametric: each data point include normalized toxicity, impact on infection rate and viral DNA replication level
- Precise: help determine the mechanism of action of a compound (MOA)
- drug discovery in human and animal health
- measure of oncolytic product or gene therapy product activity on specific cell lines
- interaction of oncolytic or gene therapy product with existing treatment
High Resolution Imaging of viruses or viral vectors
NeoVirTech performs high resolution imaging in living cells of your specific construct to decipher its action. We have already developed custom ANCHORTM viruses and viral vectors for specific application such as antiviral discovery, gene transfer studies, viral based vaccine development, oncolytic virotherapies.
Classical Worflow:
- Viral vector/Virus collection and amplification
- ANCHORTM tagging of the DNA of interest and validation using vector specific markers
- Determination of infection kinetics, replication and propagation of the tagged construct using high resolution live cell imaging, from 2D to 3D.
- Imaging of the impact of a specific compound on the behavior of the construct.
- Validated models can then shift to High content screening part of our services
- High quality data are generated, tremendous asset in communication/marketing campaign
- As viral DNA is autofluorescent, no fixation, no extraction and no reagents are required. We directly image effect of your product.
- understand the behavior of a specific virus/vector/compound in development on different cell lines and different treatement conditions
- illustrate and communicate on your product for investor/media
Out Licensing for industry/ MTA for academic labs
NeoVirTech offers the ANCHORTM technology for internal use, both for academic and industrial research (for industry pricing contact us).
Classical workflow
- Access to the ANCHORTM technology and transfer to the customer's R&D laboratory
- Technical support and troubleshooting until completion of specific project.
- Tag any kind of DNA in living cells !
- Combine ANCHORTM tagged DNA with classical imaging techniques such as immunofluorescence
- Generate high quality data using classical microscopy
- Fees are requested for production/development/troubleshooting and maintenance of IP protection.
- Several offers available, you can request a MTA at contact@neovirtech.com :
- Discovery pack (trial version): one ANCHORTM system. MTA duration: 6 months, restricted use of modifications. MTA fees: 750€. Happy with the system ? Shift to complete pack for unlimited use.
- Complete pack: all available ANCHORTM system (4 constructs, several colors). MTA duration: 2 years (free MTA renewal), unlimited use of modifications. MTA fees: 2000€
- Advanced pack: Complete pack + One of our available autofluorescent virus. MTA duration: 2 years (free MTA renewal), unlimited use of modifications. MTA fees: 3000€
What our clients say
As Technology Transfer Accelerator Office, Sayens use to collaborate with technological companies having specific skills needed for our development programs. Thanks to its unique technology and comprehensive platform, NeoVirTech revealed been a highly competent company in antiviral drug evaluation for one of our program. I also really appreciate working with Dr. Franck Gallardo and his team, which were available at every step of the project, brought a strong expertise and a valuable follow up of the experiments.”

Mrs Marie Petit
Marie PETIT, Health and medical devices project manager at SAYENS
Dr Claire Bernhard
Dr. Claire Bernhard; CNRS Research engineer - Valorization & partnership, Institute of Chemistry of the University of Burgundy UMR CNRS 6302, Dijon.We are developing inhibitors of intracellular trafficking pathways that block virus entry into cells. NeoVirTech’s technology allows for precise ranking of sets of analogues according to their antiviral potencies and selectivity indexes.
Working with NeoVirTech was a great experience. Preparatory discussions were rich and efficient, adaptation of protocols to our needs was very successful, antiviral screening of our molecules was done rapidly, and activity reports were clear and informative. The team was always available to answer our questions. We warmly recommend NeoVirTech for the screening and potency assessment of antiviral molecules on designated viruses.

Dr Daniel Gillet
Laboratoire de toxinologie moléculaire et biotechnologies, CEA Paris SaclayThe Technology Transfer Office Aquitaine Science Transfert (AST) aims to accelerate the dissemination of innovations on the market. AST supports innovative concepts from the researcher’s invention until proof-of-concept has been established. For a project of our portfolio, we were looking for a partner to evaluate the antiviral activity of a patented compound on infection and replication of different virus families. We had efficient and productive interactions with Dr Franck Gallardo and his team throughout the project to design the study, plan the execution and discuss about the results. I would highly recommend Neovirtech for antiviral drug evaluation.

Dr Lucile Tran
Dr Lucile Tran, Healthcare project manager – Business Developer at Aquitaine Science TransferTransgene SA is a biopharmaceutical company developing for more than 30 years innovative targeted-immunotherapies to answer unmet medical needs in the oncology and infectious disease fields. We were looking for a rapid and efficient solution to investigate the behavior of our products using high-resolution quantitative microscopy. NeoVirTech’s autofluorescence technology and screening platform allowed us to precisely visualize, understand and compare the behavior of our products directly using live cell microscopy techniques. The beauty and quality of the data they can generate open a new perspective for our activities, boosting up our research and validation processes. Thank you NeoVirTech for this ongoing precious collaboration.

Dr. Philippe Erbs
Head of Oncolytic Virus Department. Transgene S.A, Illkirch Graffenstaden, FranceFor almost 40 years, InvivoGen had developed and commercialized several hundreds of compounds for innate immunity field. We are interested in testing the activity of some new proprietary compounds in the anti-infectious domain. NeoVirTech was a ‘local’ choice for this project. The technology they proposed combined quantitative and qualitative results in a high throughput screening format. Their expertise in virology, the speed and quality of the generated data led us to rapidly identify new compounds as antiviral.

Dr Cédric Boularan
InvivoGen, SAS, ToulouseNeovirtech’s technology platform uniquely allows rapid and accurate screening of compounds against a range of clinically relevant viral pathogens. Dr. Franck Gallardo and his team provide an in-depth knowledge base and an interactive environment for study design, planning and execution. I would highly recommend Neovirtech for antiviral drug screening

Dr Erik De Leeuw
Institute of Human Virology & Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Medicine, USAAdvances in immune suppression allows the grafting of life saving cells and organs between patients. Immune suppression unfortunately also promotes viral infections normally controlled by the immune system making the development of novel antivirals that work under immune suppression an imperative task. The underlying mechanisms causing reactivation or promoting viral replication are often related to dynamic changes in the chromatin status of the viral genome. Working with NeoVirtech gives us the unique opportunity to label viral genomes with the ANCHOR technology and study the dynamic behaviour of individual viral genomes in living cells under different environmental conditions. Understanding how viral genomes respond in living cells is key to understanding and developing novel drug concepts and mechanistic understanding of existing antivirals. Setting up the technology with NeoVirtech was simple, professional and driven by scientific understanding … the start of a great ongoing relationship!

Dr Harald Wodrich
MFP CNRS UMR 5234, University of BordeauxViral diseases cause significant financial loss in animal production systems. Despite the importance of viral pathogens as primary and secondary etiologic agents in cattle, pigs and poultry, no antiviral products are commercially licensed for use in veterinary medicine. Collaboration with NeoVirTech give us unique opportunity to explore the potential of antiviral therapy in the veterinary virology domain. Among viral animal diseases, we are particularly interested in poxviruses induced diseases of rabbit and poultry (myxomatosis, fowlpox), and labelling of DNA viral genomes with the ANCHOR technology will allow us to rapidly screen available compounds for antiviral significative effects.

Dr Stéphane Bertagnoli
Professor of virology, National Veterinary school of ToulouseExpertise and outstanding skills that rely on R&D of high scientific level.
This company, a true example of dynamism and inventiveness, is a pride for our institute.

Dr. Bernard Ducommun
Head of ITAV labLatest news
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Some facts about us
Our added value
Having the ability to directly visualize virus infection and replication in living cells using a breakthrough technology with minimum hands-on investment. This is what we propose at NeoVirTech. Our state of the art imaging and screening platform provides a powerful tool to understand how viruses behave in a cellular context and discover compounds that will impact infection capacities (either increase or decrease). The beauty and quality of the data generated by our platform boost up your research and your communication processes.Franck Gallardo, PhD Founder & CEO
Our Team

Franck Gallardo, PhD
Founder & CEOFranck has over 14 years of experience in the field of cellular biology and microscopy. He holds a PhD in biochemistry from the medicine faculty of the Université de Montréal, Qc, CANADA. In 2012, Franck takes the lead of the ANCHOR team at the Technological Institute for Life Sciences and is responsible for the industrial application of the ANCHOR system. He creates NeoVirTech in 2014, based on several proof of concept made in the ANCHOR team. In 2015, he is awarded alumnus of the year from the Riboclub society, CANADA. Franck won the Innovative Company Award from the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research as well as The French Agency for Innovation (BPI France) in 2013 and in 2016.

Bernard Mariamé, PhD
Associate, member of the boardBernard has over 30 years of experience in immunology and virology. Following his thesis in immunogenetics (1979), he did a post-doc in Francois Rougeon lab at the Institut Pasteur (Paris) followed by a second post doc at the Ludwig Institute in Bruxelles (Belgium). Bernard was recruited as a researcher first class at the CNRS in 1990. Bernard is expert in the virology field, especially herpes viruses biology, he is member and financial officer of the HerPas association. Bernard joined the team in 2012, bringing his virology expertise and his technical skills to the team.

Stéphane Bertagnoli, PhD
Member of the board, scientific counsil poxviruses program.Stéphane obtained a PhD in microbiology/virology and veterinary from the University Paul Sabatier. Professor of Virology at the National veterinary school of Toulouse, he was in the operational reserve from the french army as a poxvirus expert. Stephane brings his expertise in poxviruses biology to NeoVirTech and his in charge of the in vivo testing in A2/A3 facilities. Stéphane belongs to the UMR INRA-ENVT 1225, research unit recognized worlwide for its work on poxviruses associated diseases.
Note: SB does not own any share and therefore declare no conflict of interest.

Kerstin Bystricky, PhD/Pr
Associate, member of the boardKerstin has over 20 years of experience in the field of cellular biology and DNA dynamics. She holds an engineer diploma from AgroParisTech (Paris) and PhD in biochemistry from the PenState university (USA). She is principal investigator of the chromatin and gene expression team at the Eucaryotic molecular biology laboratory (Toulouse). Kerstin co-developped the ANCHOR system with Franck back in 2010. She brings her expertise in DNA dynamics and cell biology to the team and is responsible for developping new application for the ANCHOR system. Visit her research ID page

Sandrine Kappler-Gratias, Ph.D
Associate, Head of screening unit, Poxvirus HCS campaignSandrine held various position before being recruited in the ANCHOR team in 2013. Sandrine has a long expertise in the design of ANCHOR tagged viruses for live cell imaging application. She was responsible for successful program such as tagging EBV and HPV genomes. Sandrine is head of screening unit, mainly in charge of poxvirus HCS campaign. She also manages her own virus tagging program. Sandrine is trained in quality, ISO17025-ISO15189.

Sokunthea Top, PhD
Poxvirus project leaderSokunthea obtained her PhD at the National Veterinary school of Toulouse, working on the development of poxvirus based vaccine against bluetongue pathologies. Expert in the manipulation and recombination of viruses, she is in charge of managing our poxvirus projects.

Elie Marcheteau, Ph.D
Oncolytics and Biodefense departmentAfter completing a master in immuno-oncology targeting in vivo colorectal cancer at the INSERM in Paris, Elie did a CIFRE-Ph.D on siRNA technologies applied to breast cancer. Elie was in charge of studying the impact of siRNA on the tumor microenvironement, combining in vitro and in vivo studies. Elie is trained in animal experimentation and will bring its expertise in in vivo manipulation and oncology at large. 10 years of experience in immuno-oncology.

Charlotte Quentin-Froignant, CIFRE PhD
Animal Herpes virus project managerCharlotte holds a master in vectorology and gene therapies. After managing anti-adenovirus discovery program at NeoVirTech, Charlotte joined us following a PhD fellowship from the ANRT. Charlotte is in charge of the development of autofluorescents animal herpesviruses for the discovery of new antiviral compounds and treatment of widespread animal infection.