diff --git a/app/src/main/java/uk/ac/ebi/atlas/trader/GxaExperimentRepository.java b/app/src/main/java/uk/ac/ebi/atlas/trader/GxaExperimentRepository.java
index a1d02bf1..75396899 100644
--- a/app/src/main/java/uk/ac/ebi/atlas/trader/GxaExperimentRepository.java
+++ b/app/src/main/java/uk/ac/ebi/atlas/trader/GxaExperimentRepository.java
@@ -106,4 +106,9 @@ public Experiment getExperiment(String experimentAccession) {
                         + ": experiment type " + experimentDto.getExperimentType() + " is not supported");
         }
     }
+
+    @Override
+    public String getExperimentType(String experimentAccession) {
+        return experimentCrudDao.getExperimentType(experimentAccession);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/app/src/test/java/uk/ac/ebi/atlas/trader/GxaExperimentRepositoryIT.java b/app/src/test/java/uk/ac/ebi/atlas/trader/GxaExperimentRepositoryIT.java
index a604f9eb..ba6cc4bd 100644
--- a/app/src/test/java/uk/ac/ebi/atlas/trader/GxaExperimentRepositoryIT.java
+++ b/app/src/test/java/uk/ac/ebi/atlas/trader/GxaExperimentRepositoryIT.java
@@ -100,4 +100,22 @@ void baselineProteomicsDiaExperiments() {
                 .isInstanceOf(BaselineExperiment.class)
                 .hasNoNullFieldsOrProperties();
     }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenExperimentDoesNotExists_ThrowsException() {
+        assertThatExceptionOfType(ResourceNotFoundException.class)
+                .isThrownBy(
+                        () -> subject.getExperimentType(
+                                jdbcUtils.fetchRandomExperimentAccession() + "_NOT_EXIST")
+                );
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenExperimentExists_thenReturnsExperimentType() {
+        var experimentAccession = jdbcUtils.fetchRandomExperimentAccession();
+        var originalExperimentType = jdbcUtils.fetchExperimentTypeByAccession(experimentAccession);
+        var experimentType = subject.getExperimentType(experimentAccession);
+
+        assertThat(experimentType).isEqualTo(originalExperimentType);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/app/src/test/java/uk/ac/ebi/atlas/trader/GxaExperimentRepositoryTest.java b/app/src/test/java/uk/ac/ebi/atlas/trader/GxaExperimentRepositoryTest.java
index e7e26551..115b11c2 100644
--- a/app/src/test/java/uk/ac/ebi/atlas/trader/GxaExperimentRepositoryTest.java
+++ b/app/src/test/java/uk/ac/ebi/atlas/trader/GxaExperimentRepositoryTest.java
@@ -7,11 +7,13 @@
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.extension.ExtendWith;
 import org.mockito.Mock;
 import org.mockito.junit.jupiter.MockitoExtension;
+import uk.ac.ebi.atlas.controllers.ResourceNotFoundException;
 import uk.ac.ebi.atlas.experimentimport.ExperimentCrudDao;
 import uk.ac.ebi.atlas.experimentimport.ExperimentDto;
 import uk.ac.ebi.atlas.experimentimport.idf.IdfParser;
 import uk.ac.ebi.atlas.experimentimport.idf.IdfParserOutput;
 import uk.ac.ebi.atlas.model.experiment.ExperimentDesign;
+import uk.ac.ebi.atlas.model.experiment.ExperimentType;
 import uk.ac.ebi.atlas.trader.factory.BaselineExperimentFactory;
 import uk.ac.ebi.atlas.trader.factory.MicroarrayExperimentFactory;
 import uk.ac.ebi.atlas.trader.factory.ProteomicsDifferentialExperimentFactory;
@@ -24,6 +26,8 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.ThreadLocalRandom;
 
 import static org.apache.commons.lang3.RandomStringUtils.randomAlphanumeric;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatExceptionOfType;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatIllegalArgumentException;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
 import static uk.ac.ebi.atlas.model.experiment.ExperimentType.SINGLE_CELL_RNASEQ_MRNA_BASELINE;
@@ -59,6 +63,9 @@ class GxaExperimentRepositoryTest {
 
     private GxaExperimentRepository subject;
 
+    private String experimentAccession;
+    private ExperimentDto experimentDto;
+
     @BeforeEach
     void setUp() {
         subject =
@@ -70,23 +77,25 @@ void setUp() {
                         rnaSeqDifferentialExperimentFactoryMock,
                         microarrayExperimentFactoryMock,
                         proteomicsDifferentialExperimentFactoryMock);
+
+        experimentAccession = generateRandomExperimentAccession();
+        experimentDto = new ExperimentDto(
+                experimentAccession,
+                SINGLE_CELL_RNASEQ_MRNA_BASELINE,
+                generateRandomSpecies().getName(),
+                ImmutableList.of(generateRandomPubmedId()),
+                ImmutableList.of(generateRandomDoi()),
+                new Timestamp(new Date().getTime()),
+                new Timestamp(new Date().getTime()),
+                RNG.nextBoolean(),
+                UUID.randomUUID().toString());
+
     }
 
     @Test
     void cannotBuildNonBulkExperiments() {
-        var experimentAccession = generateRandomExperimentAccession();
-
         when(experimentCrudDaoMock.readExperiment(experimentAccession))
-                .thenReturn(new ExperimentDto(
-                        experimentAccession,
-                        SINGLE_CELL_RNASEQ_MRNA_BASELINE,
-                        generateRandomSpecies().getName(),
-                        ImmutableList.of(generateRandomPubmedId()),
-                        ImmutableList.of(generateRandomDoi()),
-                        new Timestamp(new Date().getTime()),
-                        new Timestamp(new Date().getTime()),
-                        RNG.nextBoolean(),
-                        UUID.randomUUID().toString()));
+                .thenReturn(experimentDto);
 
         when(experimentDesignParserMock.parse(experimentAccession))
                 .thenReturn(new ExperimentDesign());
@@ -102,4 +111,30 @@ void cannotBuildNonBulkExperiments() {
         assertThatIllegalArgumentException()
                 .isThrownBy(() -> subject.getExperiment(experimentAccession));
     }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenExperimentDoesNotExists_ThrowsException() {
+        var experimentAccession = generateRandomExperimentAccession();
+
+        when(experimentCrudDaoMock.getExperimentType(experimentAccession))
+                .thenThrow(ResourceNotFoundException.class);
+
+        assertThatExceptionOfType(ResourceNotFoundException.class)
+                .isThrownBy(
+                        () -> subject.getExperimentType(experimentAccession)
+                );
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    void whenExperimentExists_thenReturnsExperimentType() {
+        final String originalExperimentType = experimentDto.getExperimentType().name();
+
+        when(experimentCrudDaoMock.getExperimentType(experimentAccession))
+                .thenReturn(originalExperimentType);
+
+        var experimentType = subject.getExperimentType(experimentAccession);
+
+        assertThat(experimentType).isEqualTo(originalExperimentType);
+        assertThat(ExperimentType.valueOf(experimentType)).isEqualTo(experimentDto.getExperimentType());
+    }
 }
diff --git a/atlas-web-core b/atlas-web-core
index 4b7eab49..6db7fa93 160000
--- a/atlas-web-core
+++ b/atlas-web-core
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 4b7eab49792c3fdd8be0b753108e41d85b5031a7
+Subproject commit 6db7fa9337b6835fd52dfcb9f18381029bac3bab