La Jolla, Calif., & London – 28 July 2026 – The Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, a non-profit research center, has selected Cenevo’s Mosaic sample management platform for life sciences to support their biomedical and translational research, including stem cell and drug discovery studies. Cenevo, the specialist in enabling agentic, connected labs, delivers lab management systems, automation, orchestration, data management and generative and agentic AI for life sciences.
Sanford Burnham Prebys will be replacing their home-grown sample management system with Mosaic. Beyond streamlining day-to-day sample management operations, Mosaic’s cloud-based system scales as needed, making it easy to add integrations with new instruments and software, while significantly reducing IT operations and maintenance costs, as no onsite servers need to be maintained.
“Our legacy system simply outgrew its usefulness,” says Hilarie Austin, Lab Manager at Sanford Burnham Prebys. “With Mosaic’s broad integrations and cloud-based operations and storage, we now have exactly what we need to support today’s experiments with plenty of room to grow into tomorrow.”
Mosaic integrates with more than 150 laboratory hardware devices and software platforms; Sanford Burnham Prebys is leveraging that technology for four of its platform integrations. The center’s CDD Vault synchronizes the available registered substances with Mosaic, and the LVL Rack Scanner and BarTender printer communicate with Mosaic directly. The Beckman Coulter Echo 655 integration provides a flexible solution where Mosaic generates a list of transfers to be performed on the Echo, and the operator can then update Mosaic with what transfers actually occurred.
The migration and translation of complex historical sample data into Mosaic means that Sanford Burnham Prebys can leverage both existing and new data to accelerate discovery across all their modalities: small molecules, stem cells, aging, immunity, and children's diseases.
The Sanford Burnham Prebys team is using the Cenevo Academy training modules to ensure they can maximize the long-term value of adding Mosaic to their laboratory processes.
“Mosaic simplifies sample management so Sanford Burnham Prebys researchers can focus on discovery,” says Cenevo SVP Customer Services, Graham Lipscomb. “As their research gets ever more complex, they’ll be able to depend on Mosaic’s integration and cloud-based platform to handle anything they need.”
About Sanford Burnham Prebys
Since 1976, Sanford Burnham Prebys has been dedicated to pushing biomedical discoveries faster and further toward clinical treatment and therapies that improve human lives. As a leading nonprofit biomedical research institute, our collaborative approach and pioneering research have produced breakthroughs in cancer, neuroscience, immunology and children’s diseases. Our deep expertise in fundamental biology and modern technologies, such as data science and AI, makes us one of the most innovative and comprehensive drug discovery centers in the world, anchored by an NCI-designated cancer center.
Located in the heart of San Diego’s global research hub, we collaborate with regional, national and international institutions in academia and industry, and partner with established and startup biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies to advance basic research to clinical trials and treatments. At the same time, our graduate school and education programs inspire and train future scientists to become tomorrow’s innovators and leaders in biomedical research, clinical care and improving health and lives.
About Cenevo
Cenevo, the specialist in enabling agentic, connected labs, delivers lab management systems, automation, orchestration, data management and generative and agentic AI for life sciences. We are trusted by scientists, companies, and research institutions worldwide, from small biotech to global pharma, with over 950 customers – including 8 out of the top 10 pharmas – and 45,000+ scientist users worldwide. Our team of more than 200 provides customers with global support from our offices in the UK, US, Israel, and Poland.
We enable agentic, connected labs that are automated, data-centric and AI-enabled. Cenevo brings together Mosaic’s sample-centric lab operations with Labguru’s experiment-centric inventory, registration, ELN, and LIMS technology. We empower scientists to do more science to deliver faster, reproducible results at a lower cost.
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