AllCells: Quality Cells for Quality Science
Since its inception in 1998, AllCells, a Discovery Life Sciences Company, has focused on advancing science in an innovative, collaborative, and client-centric manner. In our corporate video, AllCells’ Founder, Jay Tong, describes his early days in research and the motivation behind pioneering the tissue supply industry, built to support biomedical research programs at market-leading speed. Key AllCells employees also discuss how the company embodies a “Science at your Service™” attitude through the provision of high-quality products and services that puts our customers and their research first.
Mission
At AllCells, our mission is to support researchers and their groundbreaking discoveries in cell and gene therapy (CGT). By providing GMP and RUO products, custom donor management services, and integrated analytical capabilities, AllCells continues to be the preferred solutions provider for the CGT community and life science industry.
Our mission is to serve the industry through:
- Tissue procurement to support basic research to commercialization
- Access to 10,000+ recallable donors and scalable donor pools
- Global network of apheresis collection centers
- Reliable data from expert characterization and analytical services
- Diseased biospecimens to support basic research and beyond
- Donor recruitment and retention
- Customizable tissue/cell collection protocols
Vision:
- Deliver top quality products and services, as well as integrated analytical services, to support the entire CGT continuum–from basic discovery through commercialization
- Establish partnerships with biomedical, pharmaceutical, and life science companies across the globe to deliver product solutions and streamlined supply chain logistics
- Scale and enhance AllCells’ client-focused collection facilities, operational capacities, and donor networks to satisfy the growing needs of the CGT industry
AllCells’ Areas of Expertise:
- Highly characterized RUO and GMP apheresis and marrow-derived products
- Streamlined access to the largest commercial inventory of hyper-annotated™ diseased biospecimens
- Robust and scalable donor network cell supply
- Full pack/bulk immune cell isolations and made-to-order custom products
- Expert cryopreservation methods and expansive cryopreserved inventory
- Program-specific cell processing and technology transfers
- Proprietary Donor Management System (DMS) and donor management services
- Hyper-annotated™ reliable and recallable donor pool
- Adherence to GMP Guidelines (21 CFR 1271) and eQMS framework
- Expert project management and consulting services
- FDA-registered, IRB-approved, AABB-compliant donor facilities
- Integrated characterization and analytical services to support all stages of drug development
Our Promise
At AllCells, we understand that highly characterized and clinical grade starting materials are essential to support your cell and gene therapies. We are committed to help you bring innovative treatments to market faster by helping streamline CGT programs with GMP and RUO solutions.
The Right Cells
- Access to 10,000+ recallable donors and scalable apheresis collection facilities
- Extensive portfolio of GMP and RUO solutions for autologous and allogeneic programs
- Quality, viability, and deliverability you can trust
- Customizable tissue/cell collection protocols
- Customized services to meet project requirements
At the Right Time
- Fresh and cryopreserved shipments are available across the globe
- Rapid and on-demand access to the right cellular starting materials
- Deliverability of >98.5%
- Highly communicative and collaborative team with < 24hr response time
AllCells Capabilities
- Over 30 combined years of industry expertise in tissue procurement and cell processing
- Comprehensive donor management services to efficiently recruit, screen, collect, monitor, and maintain essential donors
- Global network of collection facilities for unparalleled access to reliable and recallable donors
- Integrated analytical services to support CGT research, development, and manufacturing
History
Since its inception in 1998, AllCells has earned a reputation as the go-to provider of highly characterized primary cell and tissue products, supporting global biomedical organizations in our quest to develop and manufacture novel drugs and cell therapies. Leveraging decades of expertise in hematology and immunology cell isolations, combined with on-site tissue collection operations, AllCells is known for providing high quality source materials for a diverse range of applications.
In 2022, Discovery Life Sciences and AllCells joined forces to create one of the industry’s largest dedicated client donor pools. The collective global network of FDA-registered donor collection facilities, located adjacent to GMP cleanrooms and characterization labs, are complemented by the world’s largest commercial inventory of diseased, hyper-annotated™ biospecimens for optimized operations and accelerated timelines for our clients. The close proximity enables immediate processing and cryopreservation for unparalleled quality with the highest viability, purity, and cell count available. With more than 30 years of collective cell and gene therapy (CGT) experience, AllCells and Discovery will focus on providing revolutionary products and services with greater speed and reliability to satisfy the entire CGT continuum from basic discovery through commercialization to bring the vision of Science at your Service™ to life.
AllCells Founded in Berkeley, California by Jay Tong, M.D.
Published first catalog offering a wide range of products and bioservices.
Delivered directly to local, domestic and global customers
Further diversified product portfolio by adding numerous CD34+ isolated cell products and fresh cord blood.
Achieved the “Fast 50 Award” award from the United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce
Established IRB-approved, state-of-the-art donor facilities to collect cells and whole tissue from a large repository of recallable donors which enables custom orders to be fulfilled in the shortest time in the industry
Established IRB-approved, state-of-the-art donor facilities to collect cells and whole tissue from a large repository of recallable donors which enables custom orders to be fulfilled in the shortest time in the industry
Employed cutting-edge processing tools, such as AutoMACS and CliniMACs
Achieved the “Fast 50 Award” award from the United States Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce
Ranked among the fastest growing privately owned United States companies by Inc. 500.
Relocated to AllCells existing Headquarters in Alameda, California.
Expansion of Worldwide market channels
Began delivering GMP Clinical Grade products to the biomedical research market.
Grand Opening of AllCells Boston offices.
Integrated enterprise systems solutions Oracle Netsuite.
Clinical Grade Donor Pool is launched.
Two Bi-Coastal Successful Collection Sites.
Lonza Partnership
Added Cryo Leukopaks to extensive cryopreserved portfolio
Grand Opening of AllCells Houston offices
GMP continued product expansion
Discovery Life Sciences acquires AllCells to create a new market leader in the procurement and customization of human cellular starting materials with integrated analytical services to advance cell and gene therapy programs.
Leadership Team
Glenn Bilawsky
Glenn P. Bilawsky is the Chief Executive Officer of Discovery Life Sciences, the global market leader in biospecimen analysis and procurement to the global pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and diagnostics industries. He started his life sciences career in 1979 at McNeil Pharmaceutical, a division of Johnson and Johnson and brings more than four decades of experience in pharmaceutical, sales, marketing, and research and development, contract research and health economics services to Discovery.
Since 2000, he has established and sustained the aggressive growth of four companies that employed as many as 4,000 staff worldwide; these included privately held companies and a global division of UnitedHealth Group. Glenn has participated in the acquisition of over 40 companies and the successful sale of three. Prior to joining Discovery Life Sciences, Mr. Bilawsky held CEO positions at Precision Health Economics, the i3 division of UnitedHealth Group, and INC Research, now
Syneos Health.
He also held senior executive positions at Quintiles, Inc., now IQVIA, Inc., and Pharmaco LSR, now PPD, Inc.
McLean Collins
McLean Collins joined Discovery Life Sciences in 2012 and has held positions in sales, operations, product management, and leadership. He managed the company’s Global Account team to significantly grow revenues and strategic partnerships with the top 15 BioPharma companies in the areas of biospecimens, cell & gene therapy, genomics, and IHC. Most recently, he led Discovery’s global biospecimen business including operations, commercial, and lab teams in the US & Europe with consistent double digit growth.
McLean holds a Bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University.
Tiffany Salas-Morris
Tiffany O. Salas-Morris is the Senior Vice President of Marketing for Discovery Life Sciences (DLS), the company of Biospecimen and Biomarker Specialists™, combining the world’s largest commercial biospecimen inventory and procurement network with preeminent multi-omic biomarker service laboratories and cell-based solutions to help advance new therapies for cancer, infectious disease, and other rare and complex conditions. In 2003, Tiffany started her life sciences career as a Senior Assistant Scientist at Ambion, now a Thermo Fisher company. Since then, she has used her strong scientific and technical background to make an impact in various commercial, corporate, and clinical roles at global diagnostic companies, life science companies, contract research organizations, and specialty contract laboratories including PPD, Myriad RBM (now a Q2 company), Crown Bioscience and med fusion (now a Quest Diagnostics company). She brings DLS nearly 15 years of leadership experience in marketing, corporate strategy, and product development. Tiffany has been an integral leader at DLS for 4 years, helping achieve its aggressive growth objectives and is committed to helping DLS deliver the market’s most innovative suite of solutions to help scientists accelerate precision medicine programs throughout every stage of development. Tiffany obtained a Master of Science in Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Texas State University.
Lauren Greene
Lauren Greene joined AllCells in 2016 to develop and lead AllCells’ Donor Management Program. With a background in blood banking, Lauren brings with her an innovative approach to donor management, marketing and recruitment. Prior to joining AllCells, Lauren held many positions for 9 years at the American Red Cross where she focused on database asset management and apheresis donor recruitment. Lauren has an extensive focus on project management, new process implementation, regulated operations, system validations, and database management. Lauren holds a B.A. in English from Bridgewater State University.
CARLOS CONEJERO, MBA
Carlos Conejero is a Senior Quality Management professional offering over 14 years of cumulative experience in the areas of quality systems, quality assurance, and quality control operations management. Carlos provides solutions and promotes continuous improvements to final product and service quality, customer satisfaction within the cell therapy, medical, pharmaceutical, and biotech sector. Recently, Carlos has also held Quality leadership roles in QA, QC, and QS of increasing responsibility at Minaris Regenerative Medicine (former HCATS). Carlos holds an MBA degree from Camaguey University, School of Business, Camaguey (Cuba), and Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Central de Las Villas, Santa Clara (Cuba).