Company Announcements The Hindu Business Line reported in December 2015 that Thermo Fisher Scientific will add 70 employees to its approximately 180-employee Global Technology Development Centre in Bengaluru, India, this year. Personnel at the company’s R&D Center in Bengaluru will double to 90 employees this year. Illumina announced in December 2015 four new Illumina Accelerator […]
Company Announcements LECO opened a European Application and Technology Center in Berlin, Germany, in October 2015. In October 2015, Waters opened a Malaysian subsidiary. Shimadzu established an incorporated association in partnership with Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, for the analysis of residual pesticides in agriculture and food products. Becton, Dickinson Executive Vice President and COO William A. […]
Company Announcements The Boston Business Journal reported in October that EMD Millipore is moving its membrane manufacturing for drug discovery, filtration and research from Bedford, Massachusetts, to Ireland, affecting 75 employees. Johnson Matthey acquired the Pharmorphix solid form research business from Sigma-Aldrich in October. Phenomenex’s PhenoLogix in-house analytical services group opened a 9,000 ft2 dedicated […]
Company Announcements Bruker appointed John Ornell, retired CFO of Waters, to its Board in August. Bruker named Dr. René Lenggenhager as president of Bruker BioSpin, effective November 1. He previously served as general manager of Laboratory Weighing at Mettler-Toledo. Fluidigm announced in September the opening of Australia’s first Single-Cell Genomics Centre of Excellence, located at […]
Company Announcements Lockheed Martin formed in July its Healthcare Technology Alliance to develop and refine technologies to help guide decisions for care, diagnosis and treatment of disease while protecting critical health information. Founding members include Cisco, Cloudera, Illumina and Intel. Illumina announced in August the second funding cycle of its Accelerator investments: PathoGn, which uses […]
Darmstadt, Germany 10/13/15; Darmstadt, Germany 10/14/15—Merck KGaA, which owns Merck Millipore, has named Stefan Oschmann as CEO and chairman of the Executive Board. He succeeds Karl-Ludwig Kley, who has been CEO since 2007. Since January, Mr. Oschmann has served as deputy chairman of the Executive Board and deputy CEO, responsible for strategy and innovation. “We’re […]
Company Announcements In July, Shimadzu established the 672 m2 SSI Innovation Center at its US subsidiary in Maryland to foster more joint research and collaborative projects with customers. The 26-employee Center consists of the Strategic Collaboration Development Group, Research and Development Group and Application Development Group. A $20 million investment is planned over the next […]
Hamburg, Germany 8/3/15—Life science company Eppendorf has named Thomas Bachmann as CEO (see IBO 2/15/15), effective August 1. Previously, he served as president of Bruker BioSpin (see IBO 9/30/13) and has been a member of Eppendorf’s Supervisory Board since 2013. “He has demonstrated his expertise and his strategic foresight in many ways during more than […]
Company Announcements In June, Spark Holland named LEAP Technologies as a value-added partner for US distribution. LEAP will initially focus on automated at-line systems integrated with the CTC PAL3 platforms and universal CHRONOS software. Phenomenex acquired Micron Analytica, its Spanish distribution partner, in June. Illumina, Merck KGaA and Genea established the Global Fertility Alliance to […]
Company Announcements Fluidigm named Steven C. McPhail as general manager of its Production Genomics Business in May. He previously served as president and CEO of Expression Analysis. The company also announced its plans to register as a medical device manufacturer with the US FDA, list certain of its products as FDA Class 1 devices and […]
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