
US-based clinical-grade blood collection solutions provider Tasso has partnered with ARUP Laboratories, a nonprofit clinical and academic reference laboratory, to develop and operationalise high-quality, at-home, blood testing services to support clinical research.
The partnership will combine Tasso’s clinical-grade blood collection solutions with ARUP’s gold standard testing capabilities to simplify and advance decentralised clinical research.
ARUP offered the testing component of the new combined offering.
The nonprofit laboratory is backed by more than 100 medical directors and offers more than 3,000 laboratory tests and test combinations that are prequalified by pharma companies.
Its medical directors, who are part of the Department of Pathology at the University of Utah’s Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, supported the test development and validation.
ARUP chief scientific officer and innovation business unit president Tracy George said: “Advancing diagnostic solutions that better address the needs of health systems and patients is at the core of ARUP’s mission.
“By developing testing that is compatible with Tasso’s game-changing remote blood collection solutions, we will further increase participant access to clinical research.”
To initiate the partnership, ARUP has validated the rheumatoid factor (RF), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP), creatinine, and high-sensitivity DNA testing.
ARUP validated the tests using blood microsamples collected with Tasso devices.
The tests will be powered by Tasso’s services platform which includes novel shipping solutions and digital patient-facing solutions to ensure successful blood collection and logistics.
The partnership will offer additional assays and applications throughout 2025 and beyond, subject to the completion of validation protocols.
Tasso co-founder and chief technology officer Erwin Berthier said: “Patient-centric testing solutions are needed to provide better access to clinical research and enable the development of personalised or predictive blood testing solutions.
“Tasso combining forces with ARUP Laboratories, a trusted industry leader, enables us to provide gold standard remote testing solutions that remove barriers to adoption of decentralised testing.”