Press release
U.S. Salivary Assay Pioneer Salimetrics Announces Collaboration with German Contract Research Organization daacro to Advance Studies of Stress
State College, Pennsylvania, U.S.—Saliva testing pioneer Salimetrics, known for its innovative salivary assays for conducting research to study stress biomarkers such as cortisol and alpha amylase, announced today a collaboration with German stress contract research organization daacro (Diagnostic Assessment and Clinical Research Organization) that will further both companies’ interests in advancing stress-related research.
"For more than 25 years salivary analytes have been a preferred tool for conducting basic stress research,” says Salimetrics Founder Dr. Doug Granger. “This is because the minimally invasive nature of collecting saliva, versus collecting blood, affords researchers and health-care professionals the opportunity to assess biological markers in the context of everyday life." Salimetrics assays require simple mouth swabbing and can be performed nearly anywhere at any time—even with babies and animals, making the assays easy to use in everyday life research settings typical for stress studies.
Stress is the core business of study for contract research organization daacro, which is studying how pharmaceuticals, nutritional supplements, functional or novel foods and health care influence stress. The company integrates salivary sampling in all its study protocols. An increasing need for prevention of stress-related health complaints and an increasing number of studies on many types of stress-related disorders such as anxiety, burnout, depression, heart disease, diabetes, etc. have created a good basis for establishing this collaboration. Salimetrics will supply daacro salivary assays and collaborate on research projects as appropriate.
"The strategic partnership enables daacro to advance its mission of translating the basic science of the psychobiology of stress to make a difference in people's well-being and health,” says CEO Juliane Hellhammer.”I am very much looking forward to adding Salimetrics to the daacro expert network.”
The strategic international collaboration brings together two cutting edge research teams with complementary expertise to address complex health problems created by stress.
About Salimetrics
Founded in 1998 by Dr. Douglas A. Granger from Penn State University, Salimetrics develops innovative salivary immunoassay products and provides testing services to aid researchers, the immunodiagnostic industry and analytical and functional testing laboratories around the world in measuring stress biomarkers, including:
- Alpha amylase Androstenedione
- Blood contamination Cortisol
- C-reactive protein
- DHEA
- Estradiol
- Estriol
- Progesterone
- 17a-hydroxyprogesterone Secretory IgA
- Testosterone
Salimetrics serves anthropologists, sociologists, developmental psychologists, behavioral scientists, psycho-biologists, developmental psychopathologists, oral biologists and veterinarians in conducting stress-related research in humans and animals. The company is based in State College, Pennsylvania, with offices in the UK and distributors in Europe, Australasia and South America. For more information, visit Salimetrics on the web at www.salimetrics.com.
About daacro
Founded in 2003 by Juliane Hellhammer from the University of Trier, daacro routinely meets the extensive legal requirements for clinical trials. The company is comprised of an efficient and reliable multidisciplinary team of experts in basic and clinical research whose expertise lies in a sophisticated assessment of effects of psychotropic substances on anxiety, depression and stress.Typically, study protocols involve the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), the most reliable laboratory stress test protocol in human stress research (see Dickerson & Kemeny, 2004). Biomarkers are selected and integrated to this protocol depending on substance and target of action. A new modulary protocol for clinical trials enables sponsors to choose among multiple psychological and biological response measures of stress under laboratory conditions (tsst+TM).
