Arbor Assays LLC was formed in July 2007 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by three scientists who collectively have over 50 years of experience in designing, manufacturing, analyzing and shipping FDA regulated and life science and clinical products worldwide. Two of the founders have worked at Abbott Labs Diagnostics Division, Kallestad Diagnostics, Sanofi Diagnostics, R&D Systems, and in 1992 founded Assay Designs, Inc. Assay Designs (www.assaydesigns.com) is a company that has grown from 2 part-time employees to be a major worldwide supplier of immunoassay and detection kits.

Our Philosophy
Arbor Assays’ company philosophy is to build the highest quality detection and immunoassay products for clinically important biomolecules. Our primary customer focus is both pharmaceutical and clinical scientists. We build robust immunoassay and enzyme activity kits to quantitate biomolecules in biological matrices. We delight in taking on the most technically challenging assays there are to develop. The thrill of building a kit that makes someone’s job easier or allows someone to measure something no one else has been able to is what drives us. And we are driven!
Quality does not come cheap. We will not follow the trend of other companies and contract out services such as organic chemistry, peptide synthesis, polyclonal or monoclonal antibody production to whatever country can provide the cheapest labor.

At Arbor Assays, we are totally committed to customer service and we will make every effort to satisfy your scientific needs. Part of this philosophy comes from Ann Arbor, with its home to the Zingerman’s Community of Businesses, the best deli (among other things) in the US today. If you go to their site and visit the About Us page you will see the quote “We have always believed that our customers can tell the difference between mediocre and marvelous. The fact that while competition increases every day, great numbers of food-loving folks continue to find their way down to Detroit Street to eat just reinforces that belief.” Substitute science for food, Arbor Assays for Detroit Street and purchase for eat and you have who we are.

On our home page you will see, on the left hand side, our “Notable Quote”. This displays a random selection from our favorite science quotes. If you have more fun, science-based quotes please e-mail them to us at info@ArborAssays.com.
Here is one that guides us from Mahatma Gandhi:

“A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it. He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it. We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.”— Mahatma Gandhi

It is a philosophy we believe in passionately.

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PRODUCTS
At Arbor Assays, we want your input into how our products perform in your hands and what we can do to improve them. A lot of companies treat your input as another burden (some even make it almost impossible for you to leave your comments or interact with them). We don’t do that – we want your helpful comments and suggestions on how our in-house designed products work and perform in your applications.

SERVICES
What Interactive Assay Solutions™ means to you, the customer, is that we want to provide you with a supplier of assay products and services that meet your needs. That means we work with you to develop high quality kits and custom assays that meet your requirements.
This is where your interaction with us is imperative. We need your honest input into everything from the assay specifications (in which we will be closely involved) to the final reports and/or manufactured product. Because these projects can take many months to complete and involve considerable investment of time and money by both, you the customer, and us (we get very emotionally involved with our projects!), we need to know your clear expectations up front.
This will allow us to consult with you and design the chemistry, immunochemistry, detection technology, solid phase (if it needs one), etc. that fits the market requirements and specifically your needs. Because of our experience in the in vitro diagnostic and life science industry we can help you to choose the most appropriate course of development for your project.

COLLABORATIONS
We view our collaborations with University and pharmaceutical company researchers as a positive opportunity for all. Arbor Assays’ licensing team has many years of experience licensing products and we can quickly negotiate an agreement through your institution's technology transfer office. Partnering with us offers several benefits. A license agreement can generate additional research funds. The costs associated with the development, production, packaging, and shipment of products become our responsibility.
For detection systems and kits in earlier stages of development we suggest a product partnering arrangement. If you have isolated a unique product in an area of mutual interest, Arbor Assays can work with you to develop a specific marketable product. Our objective is to work with each individual researcher and their institution to establish an arrangement, which is mutually beneficial. If you have a reagent or an idea for a product please contact us for additional information.
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