SAN DIEGO–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced it has named Marc Stapley, former Senior Vice President, Finance, at Pfizer and Americas Chief Financial Officer at Alcatel-Lucent, to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Stapley will report to President and Chief Executive Officer Jay Flatley and will oversee Illumina’s finance, accounting, facilities […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif., and SANTA FE, N.M. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that the National Center for Genome Resources has achieved Certified Service Provider status for the Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System for next-generation sequencing. NCGR, a leader in next-generation sequencing and analysis, now provides Agilent exome and custom target-enrichment services along […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced that membership in the Ion Community, the online open-access resource for Ion Torrent users and developers, has tripled to 5,000 people in just three months. The sudden jump in membership began after Ion Torrent published its sequencing protocols, analysis software and datasets for the Ion […]

ALISO VIEJO, Calif. — Ambry Genetics, a global leader in clinical diagnostics and genomic services, announced today that they have officially launched their Illumina MiSeq Next-Gen sequencing services. Ambry Genetics has been an early adapter of Illumina sequencing systems since 2007 and has extensive experience as a Certified Service Provider processing thousands of samples. The […]

SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. ILMN -0.19% today announced that the British Columbia Cancer Agency’s (BCCA) Genome Science Center has joined the Illumina Genome Network (IGN). IGN is designed to link researchers needing large-scale whole human genome sequencing with leading institutions that provide this application as a service using industry-leading Illumina sequencing platforms. “Whole human […]

University of Strasbourg adopts Life Technologies’ SOLiD™ sequencing platform to gain insight into diabetes, obesity, asthma, arterial hypertension and other common diseases. Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE) announced that its instruments are supporting the 1.1 million Euro Genomax project at the Haematology and Immunology Research Centre led by Professor Seiamak Bahram at the University of Strasbourg. […]

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) today announced it has appointed Laura Lauman as Vice President of Marketing. In this executive management position, Lauman will lead Illumina’s global marketing efforts. “Lauman has a distinguished track record of success in building and driving growth in global, complex businesses and has significant general management experience in sales, marketing, R&D […]

Basel, Roche today announced that Sophie Kornowski-Bonnet, currently General Manager of Roche Pharma in France, has been appointed Head of Roche Partnering. Sophie Kornowski-Bonnet will assume her new role on February 1, 2012, and concurrently will join Roche’s enlarged Corporate Executive Committee, reporting to Severin Schwan, CEO of the Roche Group. She will relocate to […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–GnuBIO, Inc. (GnuBIO), www.gnubio.com a pioneer in the Desktop DNA sequencing market, announced today that it has initiated the build of its beta system. Using innovative approaches, the company has enhanced many technical capabilities found only in its droplet-based DNA sequencing system – including advances in molecular biology, real time informatics and optics – […]

ST. LOUIS : Building on their industry reputation as the leader in genomic data analysis and visualization, Partek Incorporated, announced today the release of two new products: Partek® Flow™ and Partek® Pathway™. Bookending their award winning software, Partek® Genomics Suite™, Partek Flow provides upstream alignment, QA/QC and quantification of next generation sequencing (NGS) data, whereas […]