Company Announcements Millipore named Dr. Robert S. Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor at MIT, to its Board. He replaces Dr. Daniel Bellus. PerkinElmer OneSource, which provides an integrated service suit, and VWR are developing a joint offering for multivendor maintenance and qualification services. PerkinElmer’s Chief Administrative Officer Richard F. Walsh announced he will […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific announced in November 2009 that Inverness Medical Innovations ended its supply agreement for Biosite diagnostic products effective July. Annual revenues from the agreement are expected to be $200 million in 2009 and less than half of that in 2010. An agreement with a new supplier is expected to generate $40 […]
Company Announcements In August, plaintiffs dismissed their class action suit against VWR alleging the sale of chemicals to Saddam Hussein’s regime that were later used as weapons (see IBO 7/31/09). In October, the same action against Thermo Fisher Scientific was dismissed. Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies announced the election of three new directors to expand […]
Company Announcements In August, PerkinElmer exclusively licensed ultra-fast, low cross-talk solid state photomultiplier technology from Max Planck Innovation. The applications that the technology serves include PET, diagnostic scanning and analytical fluorescence. Half-year revenue for Spectris’s Material Analysis unit increased 0.4% to £116.1 million ($172.0 million) to represent 31% of company revenues (see IBO 8/31/09). Excluding […]
Billerica, MA 11/9/09; Washington, DC 11/13/09—Bruker has announced two changes at the executive level. The company has appointed CFO Bill Knight to the newly created position of chief operating officer, effective February 1, 2010. “Over the past five years, Bill Knight has demonstrated strong financial and operational leadership at Bruker, and in his newly-created COO […]
Sunnyvale, CA 10/28/09—Symyx Technologies has announced the restructuring of its High Productivity Research business (HPR), resulting in the termination of 75 employees. The company will shut down its contract development and manufacturing operations that were acquired as part of its acquisition of contract service provider Integrity Biosolution last year (see IBO 8/15/09). Consequently, it will […]
San Diego, CA 9/28/09—An independent investigation by a special committee of independent directors has found that Sequenom failed to put in place adequate protocols and controls for the conduct of studies of its noninvasive, prenatal Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) program. Sequenom was developing a Trisomy 21 test based on its MS-based MassARRAY platform and SEQureDx […]
Company Announcements The Agilent Foundation announced in July a collaboration, including scientific and financial support, with the Ideker Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego to develop new leukemia identification methods. Sartorius AG named Reinhard Vogt, who is in charge of Marketing, Sales and Services, and Jörg Pfirrmann, who is in charge of Finance, […]
Company Announcements Anton Paar GmbH announced that it will not participate in Pittcon 2010, but will take part in Analytica next year and Pittcon in 2011. Teledyne Tekmar partnered with FernCreek Technologies in June for distribution in the Pacific Northwest region of the US. Halma Health and Analysis’s sales for fiscal 2009 ended March 31 […]
Waltham, MA 9/15/09—Thermo Fisher Scientific has appointed Chief Operating Officer Marc N. Casper president, CEO and director, effective October 15. He replaces Marijn E. Dekkers, Thermo’s president and CEO since 2002 (see IBO 11/30/02), who will resign to become CEO of Bayer AG, starting October 1, 2010. “Marc’s strong leadership at Thermo Fisher over the […]
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