Menlo Park, CA – Personalis today announced the appointment of Adam Lowe as Vice President of Marketing. Mr. Lowe’s extensive experience building commercial and scientific teams in the genomics field will be critical in driving the company’s product and commercialization strategies. Mr. Lowe brings over 20 years of life science experience in marketing, product development, […]

La Jolla, Calif. — California Healthcare Institute (CHI) announced today the election of four senior executives to serve on its board of directors: Peter Claude, partner at PwC US; Dr. Michael Marletta, president and CEO of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI); Alan Mendelson, partner at Latham & Watkins; and Dr. Marc Tremblay, president, clinical diagnostics […]

BOSTON –– Pathogenica Inc. announced today it had entered into an agreement with Illumina(NASDAQ:ILMN), whereby the parties will co-market in the Asia Pacific region a new version of Pathogenica’s HAI BioDetection kit compatible with Illumina’s MiSeq benchtop sequencing system. The combined solution will enable users to identify an expanded panel of bacteria and drug resistance […]

CARLSBAD, Calif., — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE – News) today announced that the company has signed an agreement to collaborate with Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, for current and future companion diagnostics projects. The current agreement constitutes the first collaboration between the two companies and represents another step in Life Technologies’ […]

Milford, Massachusetts,– SeraCare Life Sciences, a provider of high quality biological materials that help optimize diagnostic performance, reliability and repeatability across the IVD lifecycle, announced it has introduced a new AccuSet™ anti-Toxoplasma performance panel. This is the newest addition to the SeraCare line of performance panels designed to help IVD manufacturers effectively challenge new assays […]

ST. LOUIS – C2N Diagnostics (C2N) today announced that it has signed a collaborative research and a global, exclusive supplier agreement with Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc (CIL). The partnership guarantees C2N’s future access to mass quantities of highly enriched stable isotopes at predictable prices. These stable isotopes are key reagents to C2N’s platform of Stable […]

GERMANTOWN, Maryland, and HILDEN, Germany, — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced it has received approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the therascreen EGFR test as a companion diagnostic to guide the use of Boehringer Ingelheim’s new targeted therapy, GILOTRIF™ (afatinib), for treatment of metastatic NSCLC […]

bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, is pleased to announce it has joined with Ultimate Labs, a leader in the safe production and quality control of food, drugs, and medical devices, to provide the industry with VITEK® MS – the most rapid mass spectrometry method available to detect microbial pathogens […]

Pathogenica, Inc. announced that teams from the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) and Amphia Hospital in the Netherlands are pioneering the use of the company’s HAI BioDetection Kit to prevent and control nosocomial infections in their facilities. With approx. 1,400 beds each, both Amphia and UMCG are among the largest hospitals in the world. Pathogenica’s […]