Testimonials

VectorBuilder is proud to share our client's testimonials:

  • VectorBuilder's service is simply amazing. Even if you only have an idea of what you want to do, the VectorBuilder experts will help you make it happen. The service is straightforward and really accommodating. This includes fast delivery and quick responses to queries. I recommend the service to all my colleagues and will definitely use them again for future projects.

    Stephan Kuenzel

    TU Dresden, Germany

  • VectorBuilder has greatly assisted our research, facilitating hypothesis testing through intramuscular injections of recombinant adeno-associated viral serotype 6 (rAAV6):Slirp vectors. The support from their team ensured that the vector met our needs, and their production methods delivered reliable results. We appreciate their valuable contribution to our research.

    Dr. Tang Cam Phung Pham

    University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  • I have been working with VectorBuilders since 2017 and generated a knock-in Long Evans rat model that recapitulates neuronal and skin disorders found in humans. In addition, we have designed and generate several plasmid constructs with them. In the past year, Ricky Nemeth, PhD, our Territory Manager, has been very supportive and fantastic to work with. In all, the entire team of VB are great to work with as they are responsive to queries and provide us good quality vectors, viral constructs and viral particles.

    Martin-Paul Agbaga

    University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, USA

  • VectorBuilder's customer service is astonishing. Their care with its clients and their products is visible through their prompt efforts and fast solutions. Ms. Pascual specifically has been nothing but extremely helpful and kind towards our team.

    Gabriel Mendonça

    ATLAS Comércio Exterior, Brazil

  • I used their lentiviruses to build a stable cell line with a dual inducible system, and everything worked great. Despite the fact that we are in Chile (South America), VB delivered all the requested materials (lentiviral particles, E. coli colonies and plasmids) successfully and without any delay. They also included lentiviral particles as positive controls in the shipment free of charge. In short, VB can provide you with high quality materials with fast delivery.

    Sebastian Belmar Willatt

    Merken Biotech, Chile

  • I have used VectorBuilder for both AAV and lentiviral preparations, as well as DNA construct synthesis and am extremely satisfied with my experience. Cordial and responsive customer service, fantastic vector creation online tool, and quick delivery far ahead of schedule. Prices are competitive too. What more can one ask for???

    Mark Solloway

    YOLO Immune Inc., USA

  • Vectorbuilder is reliable, fast, and the price is super reasonable. I want to thank Vectorbuilder for providing such excellent service!

    Weiwen Zhang

    Emory University, USA

  • I have used the Vectorbuilder Lentivirus to do transduction many times. The quality is reliable and the transduction efficiency is very high. The customer service and R&D teams are highly professional and helpful. My experience with VectorBuilder is great.

    Yichuan Wang

    Frederick National Laboratory, USA

  • I had a great experience with the service and Maria solved all our doubts.

    Julian Bergier

    Stamm Bio, Argentina

  • One year, over 10 constructs and transgenic fly lines further within a year, I want to thank VB and especially Joseph Perez for their excellent service. Dedicated to getting us the vectors we need, and advancing our follow-up applications- thank you for helping us advance our work!

    Jelly Soffers

    University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA

  • Reliable, precise, and fast, we were well-assisted and supported on purchases, agreements, and technical aspects. For many years we have been working with Vector Builder.

    Maria Pennuto

    University of Padova, Italy

  • Quality, fast and easy. I must say that VectorBuilder is the best. Very good support during all the order process as well, from the design to the shipment.

    Vitor Oliveira

    Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brazil

  • The VectorBuilder lentivirus vectors demonstrate high transduction efficiency. The team is highly professional in vector design and production.

    Yichuan Wang

    Frederick National Lab for Cancer Research, USA

  • Nuestro laboratorio utiliza VB rutinariamente hace mas de 8 años. El servicio es impecable, fácil de diseñar plásmidos y con una calidad insuperable. Los envíos a Argentina son rápidos, sin trabas y con un excepcional servicio de atención al cliente en español .

    Alejandro Orlowski

    CIC-UNLP-CONICET, Argentina

  • VectorBuilder is my favorite company! The service is reliable, efficient and excellent. The website user interface is intuitive. The number of choices for different vectors and downstream services is exhaustive, and the prices are reasonable. Furthermore, the team is receptive to feedback and queries. Compared to the old days of cloning, VectorBuilder now saves us enormous time and money, and frees us up to focus on the experimental questions rather than getting bogged down with making constructs.

    Dr. Timothy Cripe

    Nationwide Children’s Hospital, USA

  • My lab has been using VectorBuilder services for the design of viral vectors and production of AAV2 viral particles for 6 years. VectorBuilder contributed to the success of our work, by enabling publication of multiple research articles which unitized these products.

    Feliks Trakhtenberg

    University of Connecticut School of Medicine, USA

  • I have been working with VectorBuilder from the beginning of my postdoc. I’ve chosen VectorBuilder because of the online platform to create customized vectors. It is really impressive how easy is to digitally clone and the order process. Specifically, in our paper, we’ve used VectorBuilder for several critical experiments, including the downregulation of Bassoon protein (AAV-shRNA) and to study the role of Bassoon in the propagation of tau (AAV-GFP-P2A-hTau). These experiments were extremely important to probe our hypothesis.

    Dr. Pablo A. Martínez

    Indiana University School of Medicine, USA

  • We chose to source AAV vectors from VectorBuilder due to the ease of online vector design, provision of expert technical support and vector production methods, which ensure high titer, purity and potency.

    Dr. George Mcilroy

    University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

  • Vectorbuilder is timely, communicative, easy to work with, and—most importantly—skilled at producing very high-quality viruses. We have found that the optimal multiplicity of infection for gene-editing experiments using an AAV6 donor supplied by VectorBuilder is lower than other published reports, suggesting that the provided virus is consistently of very high potency. Knowing this saves money and time.

    Dr. Brock Roberts

    Allen Institute for Brain Research

  • Our lab has been using VectorBuilder to aid in the design and synthesis of plasmids for the last 3-4 years. They have always been extremely helpful with design requests. I would highly recommend VectorBuilder's services to anyone wanting to accelerate their research progress.

    Dr. Andrew Cox

    Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

  • We have used VectorBuilder's services for plasmid desisgn as well as AAV and Lentiviral vector production for more than four years years. Their service is consistent, reliable, and prompt. A major plus is the technical support team.

    Dr. Kevin Watt

    Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Victoria, Australia

  • Amazing experience cooperating with VectorBuilder! As one of the most popular technologies, mRNA vaccine technology has been used extensively to develop therapeutics and vaccines targeting various infectious and non-infectious diseases. Recently, Daniel Meng’s R&D team at VectorBuilder rapidly established the IVT mRNA CRO platform, and we closely collaborated on developing mRNA-based HIV and influenza vaccines. I am so impressed by their scientific vision as well as their problem solving capabilities. Once again, VectorBuilder is trustworthy.

    Dr. Caijun Sun

    Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

  • It has been a great experience working with VB. I was one of the first to test their empty capsid (AAV VLP) service. For my batch capsids were nearly completely empty (>97% by AUC and TEM) and were thus a huge help for assay development as a negative control. I also want to highlight that my contact Matthew Wheeler was always very helpful and transparent for any queries I had and that the team is very agile. A big plus is also the very intuitive website. Overall, a big thumbs up for VectorBuilder from my side.

    Dr. Andrei Hutanu

    Analytical Biochemist/QC Method Development, Roche, Switzerland

  • I am very satisfied with the constructions (double mutants) made by Vectorbuilder. The service is very serious and rigorous. They started by verifying our plasmid by doing digestions. As this was not enough, they even sequenced part of the plasmid, which then ensured the success of the constructs. Constant email exchanges for verification steps were ensured with almost instantaneous responsiveness! Quite impressive! Once the sequence was clarified, production was not long, and we were able to do our experiments under excellent conditions. The results were as good as we expected. Bravo again and thank you for the efficiency, the rigor, and the seriousness.

    Sabine Levi

    French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

  • After ordering two plasmids from VectorBuilder, I would like to give you some feedback on the products. I am very satisfied with the plasmids sent. It's a real time saver and moreover, I had no problems concerning the expression of these plasmids in the target cells (human). The team's customer service is also attentive to requests and is very reactive regarding any problems encountered with the plasmids.

    Morgane Baldaccini

    French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

  • We have used VectorBuilder services for one year. The website is very user-friendly for designing vectors, and there are automatic verifications that make pertinent suggestions when validating sequences. The flexibility of the service is truly amazing, and we can get a perfectly characterized plasmid for the price of an antibody. Working with VectorBuilder saves us a great deal of time, and time is money. We just can't wait to get the plasmid when ordered!

    Nous utilisons les services de VectorBuilder depuis un an. Le site web est très simple à utiliser concernant le design de vecteurs et comprend des vérifications automatiques qui font des suggestions pertinentes lors de la validation des séquences. La flexibilité du service est vraiment impressionnante et nous pouvons obtenir un plasmide parfaitement caractérisé pour le prix d'un anticorps. Travailler avec VectorBuilder nous fait gagner beaucoup de temps, et le temps, c'est de l'argent. Nous sommes impatients de recevoir le plasmide lorsque nous le commandons !

    Fabien Chevalier

    French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

  • Before using VectorBuilder, producing lentiviral overexpression vectors for our in vitro models was a recurring and time-consuming enterprise. We faced frequent challenges in every experimental step, which made it difficult to plan the actual experiments. Setting up the process with VectorBuilder was very efficient, thanks to their great expertise and support. Once we started using VectorBuilder's services, we noticed a substantial increase in productivity as well as a more uniform and predictable transduction pattern of our target cells.

    We went on to use VectorBuilder for a large-scale CRISPR screen with a custom library spanning over 1,600 genes. With the provided virus, we were able to easily maintain cell representation and we derived a number of interesting hit genes, which we are excited to follow up on. A big thank you to the entire VectorBuilder Team!

    Dominic Schmid

    University of Basel

  • To me, VectorBuilder specially Stella Gideon has been amazing! We have gotten our plasmids made by them for over 3 years and every time they are on point! The plasmids arrive on time, and their support team is always on standby for any help I may need!

    Nemil Bhatt

    University of Texas Medical Branch

  • VectorBuilder's AAV serotype panel helped us to choose the best expressing serotype for our brain area and animal model of interest. By piloting injections using a selection of serotypes provided in the panel, we obtained invaluable pilot data before ordering a large scale virus production. This allowed us to save a considerable amount of time and resources. The technical support was great, they answer our questions promptly provided great advice. VectorBuilder technical support team further help us designing and cloning our AAV viral vector. Our preliminary data allowed to map retrogradely labelled neurons in the amygdala using light-sheet microscopy. We would not hesitate to use VectorBuilder for our next projects

    Dr. Cristina Martinez Gonzalez

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  • To me, science is not a profession. It's a passion for the unknown. It's a constant celebration of perseverance, and love for the truth. And with the professional support of VectorBuilder, the superior quality of VectorBuilder products, and the very competent personalized assistance (thank you so much, Dr. Mirus), science also became an ever-growing source of joy to me. Why? Because since I started to rely on VectorBuilder, I have significantly increased my research output and realized more complex projects much more quickly, giving me time needed to truly enjoy what I'm doing.

    Ricardo Koch

    Institute of Oncology Research (IOR), Switzerland

  • We have used VectorBuilder services for 3 years now. In our lab, we generate different types of vectors, with custom promoters and difficult sequences. I often had trouble when I synthesized these custom elements elsewhere. Going back to cloning by ourselves is no longer our first option since they are fast, efficient and their prices are more than fair. On top of that, their customer service is unbeatable.

    Dr. Gaetano Gargiulo

    Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Germany

  • VectorBuilder makes the process of designing and building vectors easy and efficient. Justin Mirus, as the lead, and the unique and energetic design team are promptly ready to help and support our request and advise us with their great expertise and effective services.

    Denise Panella

    Glycostem, Netherlands

  • I recently purchased lentiviral constructs from Vector Builder and I must say that the efficiency of the plasmid is well worth the price. Additionally, I want to extend my appreciation for the excellent service provided by Vector Builder.

    Mahendra Veeranna Padmini

    Thomas Jefferson University, USA

  • The experience working with the great team at VectorBuilder, specifically with Joaquin Bozzo, has been a refreshingly smooth and enjoyable experience. Joaquin has consistently anticipated and intercepted various hurdles that our team overlooked and has proactively pushed forward one of the most urgent parts of our current pipeline. I look forward to collaborating with Joaquin and the VectorBuilder team many more times in the future.

    Sacha Schermerhorn

    Stealth, USA

  • VectorBuilder has been the partner every researcher would wish for during those dark moments of paper revision. They offer the complete package: a wide range of viral vector design options, an extremely user-friendly and intuitive website, direct communication, personal and knowledgeable step-by-step guidance throughout the designing and ordering process, accountability, amazing discounts, unique customer support, fast shipping, and guaranteed virus titers and efficiency. So here’s my big thumbs up for a great product and service provider who has proven indispensable in addressing my research questions!

    Evgenia Salta

    Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/VIB, Belgium

  • VectorBuilder is an amazing way to save time normally dedicated to molecular biology. The website is easy to use, well-conceived and allows quick design in most cases. For more unusual requests, the team is energetic, reply promptly on every request, and always finds a way to help. Low prices and short timelines really make it possible to consider VectorBuilder for many cloning matters.

    Laura Israel

    Novartis (Basel), Switzerland

  • VectorBuilder offers a comprehensive online platform for vector design. We found the options for customising our vectors to be extensive and the interface simple - allowing this to be done ‘with a click’. The team has been really responsive when I wanted to check things through - thanks Christina! In my view, VectorBuilder is a platform worth investigating when you are looking to save time and outsource cloning and virus production.

    Craig Southern

    LifeArc, UK

  • VectorBuilder has allowed us to rapidly iterate and expand our cell editing needs. Not only do they supply a service that allows easy, quality vectors to be delivered, but they have outstanding technical and customer support. The territory manager Alejandro Izurieta has gone above and beyond to get us information we need, or connect us to the right person. We will continue to use VectorBuilder in the future for all our vector needs.

    Alan Mardinly

    Director of Biology, Science (California), USA

  • We ordered adenovirus from Vectorbuilder company to overexpress our interest genes. The service is fast, considerate, and high-qualified. Besides, the adenovirus is very effective to overexpress our target gene.

    Wanbao Yang

    Texas A&M University, USA

  • We find that it is more efficacious to use VectorBuilder for our molecular biology needs. Purchasing vectors and making use of cloning services frees our students’ time to concentrate on experiments. We have worked with VectorBuilder for quite some time and are always pleased with the efficient, effective, and affordable service. In particular, we are impressed by, and appreciate, how well our rep., Justin Mirus, takes care of our needs. VectorBuilder contributes money and expertise to the advancement of science, for example, to enable conferences at our institute.

    Jared Sterneckert's lab

    Center for Regenerative Therapies, Germany

  • Two years ago, when another CRO was struggling to provide the requested clones that I ordered, I reached out to Vector Builder to try to make them for me. Very difficult clones to make due to many repeats of amino acids. They got the clones done for me with no issues and very quickly. I have been using Vector Builder since then. Along with this, working with Alejandro Izurieta (California Territory Manager) has been great. He is knowledgeable, and professional promptly answers my request and is courteous. I rely on him to get the service that I need from Vector Builder done. He is just wonderful!

    Irena Levin

    Takeda (California), USA

  • Vectorbuilder's service is extremely consistent. We started with regular plasmids and AAV plasmids. Since last year we have ordered many piggybac plasmids. All worked as expected.

    Shuhsien Sheu

    Janelia Research Campus, USA

  • We began using VectorBuilder for adenoviral plasmids construction about a year ago. We normally handled all cloning projects ourselves, but when it comes to adenoviral vectors, because of their large size, sometimes the cloning is kind of tricky for inexperienced students. So we decided to give VectorBuilder a try. The plasmid arrived one month later and the virus we generated from it expressed the correct gene. We have ordered more than 10 adenoviral plasmids and they all work fine. VectorBuilder has saved us a lot of time.

    Lei Sun

    DUKE-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore

  • I recently met one of the VectorBuilder product specialist during AAI-2019 meeting at San Diego Convention Center. Her name is Dr. Swati Roy, and she provided me excellent information regarding their products and vector designs. And then, we recently purchased CRISPR Cas9 dual gRNA vector. Now, we are ordering few more plasmid vectors. As per my experiences, VectorBuilder customer services are excellent and user-friendly. The VectorBuilder product prices are reasonable.

    Shahanshah Khan

    UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA

  • The VectorBuilder's system for new vector design is easy to be used, checked and analyzed. I like the system very much and highly recommend the system to new customers. I am going to use their service for multiple projects again.

    Ke-He Ruan

    University of Houston, USA

  • VectorBuilder’s online vector design platform is user friendly and easy to use. All one needs to do is select sequences of inserts either from their vast data base or provide one’s own unique sequences. The sequence database provides a wealth of information and links to peer-reviewed publications. Placing order for the vectors is easy and their technical and supporting staff are prompt in offering solutions. They offer services at low prices in comparison to other commercial sources. With the guaranteed service, I can concentrate on my experiments instead of constructing the vector. Thanks are especially due to Stella Gideon for her support at every step. If one is constrained with time and manpower to devote to vector construction, leave it to VectorBuilder. It is worth every penny.

    Bala Kolli

    Wayne State University, USA

  • We recently purchased a lentiviral plasmid for constitutive expression of GFP and luciferase and the corresponding lentivirus from VectorBuilder. We have infected several tumor cell lines with excellent results. The lentiviral stocks worked very nicely, saving us a lot of time. We are now using these modified cell lines for monitoring tumor growth in animal models using in vivo imaging.

    Javier Alonso

    Research institute for Rare Diseases, Spain

  • The website design is super user-friendly and easy to follow, I'm really impressed. It was great working with Swati Roy and Stella Gideon. Shout out to the customer support - they have always been responsive and extremely helpful.

    Jaya Pratap Pinnamaneni

    Baylor College of Medicine, USA

  • I would like to share with you my positive experience purchasing a lentiviral vector from VectorBuilder.
     
    First, I am an immunologist and have little experience with cloning. In my recent project, we needed to overexpress a gene in melanoma cells. The transfection efficiency using plasmids in this cell line was extremely low, less than 10%. Then, we tried to use antibiotics to select transfected cells and establish stably expressing cell lines. Unfortunately, for unknown reasons, the ‘stable transfectants’ lost the transfected genes! I was frustrated at this point, until I met VectorBuilder at the EACR conference in Amsterdam. Using the user-friendly website from VectorBuilder, I designed for the first time in my life my own lentiviral vector and got the product in less than one month. My group leader, who has a lot of cloning experience, could not believe that it worked so quickly. Of course, most important are the experimental results. To access the transduction efficiency, I included an EGFP tag in the vector. Now, I can transduce the melanoma cells with nearly 100% positivity. In the following assays, the genes transduced into the tumor cells resulted in a 6-fold induction in tumor immunogenicity.
    Taken together, I strongly recommend VectorBuilder to researchers, especially those who are not so experienced with cloning, and am convinced that the service and product quality from VectorBuilder can further help me to proceed with my own projects more effectively.

    Fang Zhao

    UK-Essen, Germany

  • I have been consistently using VectorBuilder over the last couple of years and have been extremely satisfied with the vectors they've delivered. These include standard over-expression vectors, and Cas9 vectors on the PiggyBac backbone. All of the vectors I have purchased so far have passed my QC and provided reproducible functional data.

    Daksh Thaper

    Vancouver Prostate Centre, Canada

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