BACKGROUND
WatchFrog is a service and contract testing provider for major industrial customers, all of whom are world leaders in their respective fields: water, energy, consumer goods, fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals.
WatchFrog has a routine screening platform that meets the quality standards required by its industrial customers.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRODUCTS / SERVICES / TECHNOLOGY
- In the environmental sector, WatchFrog offers modular systems for the real-time monitoring of the presence of pollutants.
- For the environmental, chemical and pharmaceutical sectors, WatchFrog has its own automated screening platform (with a throughput of several hundred samples over a few hours). Moreover, WatchFrog sells routine tests for the screening of endocrine-disrupting properties of chemical compounds under the European Union’s REACH legislation and Water Framework Directive.
- WatchFrog can also create dedicated disease models for the pharmaceutical industry.
CUSTOMER REFERENCES / COLLABORATIONS / HIGHLIGHTS
- Collaboration agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency (USA EPA) as part of the TOXCAST program for prioritizing the toxicity testing of large numbers of chemicals.
- Participation in two projects of the French National Research Program on Endocrine Disruptors (PNPRE).
- Coordination of a hospital effluent monitoring station.
This project is accredited by the Medicen Paris Region and DREAM clusters; the goal is to develop a tool for the on-site monitoring of toxicants in hospital effluents.
COLLABORATIONS SOUGHT
In view of the flexibility of WatchFrog’s technology, we are looking for industrial partners to take up new challenges in lead optimization or environmental risk evaluation.
