Sophion - Your Ion Channel Partner

Sophion is a leading developer and supplier of instrumentation and consumables enabling rapid, high throughput automated patch clamp analysis for the functional characterization of living cells. Patch clamping is the only direct method of investigating the function and characteristics of ion channels. These represent an increasingly important focus for drug discovery and life sciences research.

Ion channels

Ion channels are vital within drug discovery as they:

• relate to safety of new therapeutic leads
• constitute a vastly underexploited and rapidly growing class of targets for the development of novel therapeutics.

Please check out our introduction to ion channels for non-experts here.

Patch clamp systems and cell lines

Sophion's QPatch product offerings are microchip-based automated patch clamp systems that provide efficient, reliable and high-quality data through continuous unattended operation on a truly industrial basis. Sophion also provides optimized cell lines for use for automated patch clamping. Please check out our QCells here.

Sophion's customer approach

For over more than a decade, Sophion has diligently built a reputation for technologically superior product offerings and excellent customer service through a unique collaborative approach. Sophion's products are used in biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies around the world. The Company's customer base includes ten of the top twelve big pharma companies as ranked by sales.