Männedorf, Switzerland 2/13/12—Tecan has appointed Dr. David Martyr as CEO, following a five-month search (see IBO 10/15/11). He replaces Thomas Bachmann, who will leave the company immediately. Dr. Martyr was most recently vice president at Danaher and group president of Danaher’s Leica Microsystems business, which provides life science instrumentation, microscopy, cancer diagnostic products, medical technologies […]
Jena, Germany 1/11/12—CyBio, a subsidiary of Analytik Jena, has announced that it will propose at its shareholders meeting on April 27 to authorize the Management Board to apply to withdraw its listing from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange’s Regulated Market. Analytik Jena will make an offer to minority shareholders to purchase their shares in accordance with […]
Columbia, MD 1/3/12—Shimadzu has named Shuzo Maruyama president of Shimadzu Scientific Instruments (SSI), its American subsidiary, effective December 19. He was most recently the general manager of Shimadzu’s LC business and is a 29-year veteran of the company. He replaces Takeshi Kawami, who has been president of SSI since April 2007 (see IBO 4/30/07).
Company Announcements On October 15, Bernd Brust resigned as president of Molecular Medicine at Life Technologies. Illumina named Dr. Daniel S. Grosu, MD, to the newly created position of vice president and chief medical officer in late October. He was previously group director, Clinical Science, Clinical and Medical Affairs at Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics. On October 31, […]
Company Announcements In September, the FDA, University of Maryland, their Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) and Waters opened the International Food Safety Training Laboratory to provide hands-on lab training on detection methods and classroom methods on regulatory standards. Operated by the JIFSAN, the lab will be able to teach 200 professionals […]
Company Announcements CPI International named General Manager Jarrett Wendt president and CEO in October. In October, BioSurplus opened a sales office in Incheon, South Korea, in partnership with jDepot. In October, Agilent and the Agilent Technologies Foundation selected Steven Carr, PhD, who directs the Proteomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, for […]
Santa Clara, CA 11/17/11—Agilent Technologies has named Ron Nersesian executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective immediately. Mr. Nersesian has been president of the company’s Electronic Measurement Group since 2009. The presidents of Agilent’s three businesses will report to him. Guy Séné, vice president of the Microwave and Communications division of Electronic Measurement, has […]
Venlo, The Netherlands 11/28/11—QIAGEN has announced an effort to streamline its organizational structures that will result in an 8%–10% reduction in its 3,800-person workforce. Actions include the elimination of duplicate global, regional and local activities; the discontinuation of certain R&D programs in order to focus on high-growth areas; improved site utilization; and the expansion of […]
Company Announcements A settlement agreement was announced in August in GE Healthcare’s 2010 German suit against Bio-Rad Laboratories for infringement of surface plasmon resonance–related patents. As part of the agreement, GE granted Bio-Rad access to a collection of its patents. Scientific Digital Imaging named Finance Director Mike Creedon acting managing director in August. Helicos Biosciences […]
Company Announcements GE announced in its quarterly conference call that second-quarter sales for GE Healthcare Life Sciences increased 7%. Sigma-Aldrich’s second-quarter sales grew 15.0% to $637.0 million (see IBO 7/31/11) or 6% organically. Currency effects and acquisitions increased sales 7.8% and 1.6%, respectively. Research Essentials, Research Specialties, Research Biotech and Fine Chemicals revenues grew 17%, […]
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