Laboratory Accreditations
With specialists focusing on virology, immunology and molecular biology, hVIVO is well equipped within our Biosafety Level 2 and 3 facilities to provide high quality sample analysis and data outputs enabling clients to arrive at a proof of concept, or to make a breakthrough discovery in the pathology and possible treatment of diseases with unmet medical needs.
hVIVO is a rapidly growing specialist CRO and the world leader in testing infectious and respiratory disease vaccines and therapeutics using human challenge clinical trials. hVIVO provides end-to-end early clinical development services for our broad and longstanding global client base of biopharma companies.
Key Highlights
70,000+
Number of assays per year
500,000+
Biobank samples
580m²
Lab space
50+
Lab team
300,000+
Aliquots per year
85,000+
Samples processed per year
1,000+
Serology assays per week
800+
RT-qPCR samples per week
1000+
Infectivity assay samples per week
VP of Clinical Operations on hVIVO Lab Services
Meet the Lab Team
hVIVO is led by a dynamic group of experts in their respective fields who are driving excellence throughout the organisation.
Andrew Catchpole
Chief Scientific Officer
Marianne Derricott
Associate Director, Laboratory Operations
Alison Boyers
Director, Laboratory Project Operations
Chris Forsdyke
Head of Laboratory Services
Elisa Masat
Principal Development Scientist
Martin Larke
Principal NGS Biostatistician
Our Accreditations
Good Clinical Practice (GCP)
Good Clinical Practice (GCP) is an international ethical and scientific quality standard; for designing, conducting, recording and reporting trials. Ensuring participant safety prevails over the interests of science and society.

Human Tissue Authority (HTA)
hVIVO is accredited by the Human Tissue Authority (HTA), meaning that we have been recognized by the HTA as compliant with standards and regulations for the ethical and legal removal, storage, and use of human tissue. A HTA license is essential, as hVIVO handles human tissue for various research purposes.

Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP)
All clinical trials comply with GCP and/or GCP for Laboratories (GCLP) guidance. Human Challenge Agent-only clinical studies that do not involve IMP also comply with GCP/GCLP.

College of American Pathologists (CAP)
The CAP laboratory accreditation programme ultimately recognises laboratory quality and compliance. CAP accreditation is globally recognised, and provides assurance the hVIVO laboratory services are able to be delivered to a standard.

UKAS ISO/IEC 17025:2017 Accreditation

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