Carestream Health, consisting of Kodak’s former Health Group business (see IBO 1/15/07), officially began operating as an independent company in May. 454 Life Sciences and the Malaysian Genomics Resource Centre are collaborating on the characterization of tropical organisms and diseases. Axela Biosensors entered into a licensing and supply agreement for BioCheck’s reagents for use as […]
Esco Technologies named Mike Martin general manager of US operations in March. He was previously general manager of Lancer Sales. Esco Technologies established a subsidiary in Salisbury, UK, earlier this year. On May 4, Becton, Dickinson and Company acquired Plasso Technology, a surface-engineering company that specializes in biological coatings for consumables, for $10 million in […]
Hitachi High-Technologies Life Science’s revenue for fiscal 2007 ended March 31 rose 9.3% to ¥933 billion ($8.1 billion) (see IBO 6/30/07) to account for 9.8% of company sales. Operating profit increased 39.4% to ¥123 billion ($385.3 million). Sales of liquid chromatographs and DNA sequencers increased. Hitachi High-Technologies opened a branch office in Moscow, Russia, in […]
Late last week, PerkinElmer announced that Robert F. Friel, president of the company’s Life and Analytical Sciences division (LAS), would transition to president and COO on August 1, before being named CEO next February. Gregory L. Summe, chairman, president and CEO, who has been with the company 10 years as of next January, will assume […]
Under a collaboration and licensing agreement with Dr. Gerry Shaw of the University of Florida and EnCor Biotechnology, Millipore is developing a neurofilament ELISA kit to measure the biomarker pNF-H. Millipore named Charles Wagner, vice president of Strategy and Corporate Development, CFO, effective August 15. Meridian Bioscience restructured and expanded its Meridian Life Science subsidiary […]
In April, YSI acquired the environmental division of AMJ Equipment, its southeastern US selling partner, which has been renamed AMJ Environmental. Sensicore appointed Kenneth Ogan, PhD, former vice president of technology for Danaher’s Environmental Water Quality Group, as vice president of R&D and Douglas Reed, formerly with Agilent, as vice president of Sales.
Waltham, MA 7/26/07—PerkinElmer has announced that Robert F. Friel, president of the company’s Life and Analytical Sciences division (LAS), will become president and COO, effective August 1. He is expected to be named CEO in February 2008, replacing Gregory L. Summe, who will become executive chairman until April 2009. The LAS presidency is not expected […]
Syrris opened an office in La Jolla, California. Biotage AB elected Axel Broms and Per-Olof Eriksson to its Board, replacing Jeff Bork and Björn Odlander. In May, Agilent and Integrated DNA Technologies agreed to harmonize their chemistry, processes and analytical techniques and to provide reciprocal referrals for synthetic oligonucleotides, creating a complete development pathway for […]
IO Informatics appointed Robert Stanley, cofounder and CTO, president and CEO in April. VelQuest integrated its GMP Electronic Notebook System, designed for QA/QC applications, with Symyx Technologies’ electronic lab notebook applications, which are designed for R&D. Thermo Fisher Scientific granted Sage-N Research a sublicense to sell the SEQUEST search engine products. Agilent integrated EMC’s NetWorker […]
Tecan elected Heinrich Fischer, former CEO of the Saurer Group, and Jürg Meier, former head of the Novartis Venture Fund, to its board, replacing Heino von Prondzynski, who resigned, and Timothy Anderson. The April election defeated candidates and motions put forward by BB Medtech, the company’s largest shareholder. NanoString Technologies is developing with Applied Precision […]
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