AFASCI, INC.
Biotechnology ResearchCalifornia, United States11-50 Employees
AfaSci, Inc. is a biotechnology research company based in Redwood City, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It conducts research and development spanning biotechnology and therapeutics. The company has developed an in vivo drug screening platform named SmartCage, which automates the assessment of how drugs affect rodent behavior and increases throughput for phenotyping transgenic animals. By integrating this platform with electrophysiological techniques, AfaSci advances CNS drug discovery, focusing on IND candidates that target ion channels and GPCRs to address conditions such as neuropathic pain, epilepsy, and Alzheimer's disease. Its customers are research teams in pharmaceutical and biotech settings seeking objective, high-throughput in vivo data to support CNS therapies.