Types of analytes include therapeutic drugs (medicines) and their metabolites or degradation products, endogenous compounds (like for instance bile acids), as well as environmental pollutants or natural substances (some of which also have therapeutic potential).
Biological matrices include body fluids such as blood, plasma, serum, urine, saliva, bile, cerebrospinal fluid, but also tissue homogenates, cell culture media and cell culture lysates.
Applications of bioanalytical services vary between drug discovery research over preclinical studies to First-in-Human (FIH) clinical studies, phase 2/3 clinical trials and bioequivalence studies.