Case Study: Gladstone Stem Cell achieves synchronized inventory management and project tracking with Labguru

Labguru facilitates the Gladstone Institutes' inventory management and streamlines project tracking

Gladstone Stem Cell, the shared Stem Cell Core at the Gladstone Institutes, needed to replace legacy inventory systems and paper lab notebooks to achieve holistic project management, continuity amid high staff turnover, and searchable, legally defensible records. They turned to Labguru, adopting its unified platform that combines specimen and inventory management with an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) and migrating existing data from Lablife.

Labguru implemented a single database tying experiments, samples and inventory together, organized access by project and person, and delivers weekly progress digests to PIs. As a result Gladstone Stem Cell gained real-time oversight, faster onboarding, clearer protocol tracking, and reduced duplicate purchases (saving about $500), while improving documentation, project continuity and operational efficiency.

Gladstone Stem Cell

Kathy Ivey

Staff Research Investigator and Director