Company Announcements

Carestream Molecule Imaging and the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research signed a five-year partnership agreement in May to support the development of novel preclinical-imaging approaches in oncology using the Carestream Albira trimodal-imaging system.

In May, Axela appointed Isogen Life Science as a distributor for Benelux and Spain.

OpGen formed a public health consortium in May to evaluate its Whole Genome Mapping technology as an enhanced method for strain typing micro-organisms that cause disease outbreaks. The consortium is comprised of the Association of Public Health Laboratories, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the University of Maryland Institute for Genome Sciences and 11 US state public health labs.

In May, Life Technologies and OpGen signed a collaboration agreement to develop systems, technologies and applications intended to improve the management and surveillance of microbial outbreaks in the public health and infectious disease markets, with a focus on combining the companies’ respective Whole Genome Mapping and Ion Torrent sequencing technologies for food outbreak and infectious disease analysis. Life Technologies also joined OpGen’s public health consortium.

Gerard Vaillant resigned from Luminex’s Board in May.

In May, the New York Genome Center (NYGC) announced the formal commencement of its collaborative relationship with Illumina, which initially started in November 2011.

Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory joined the Illumina Genome Network, which consists of six existing partners that provide whole-genome sequencing services.

In May, NanoString Technologies named Bruce J. Seeley senior vice president and general manager of its newly formed Diagnostics business. Most recently, he was executive vice president, Commercial, at Seattle Genetics.

Scientific Digital Imaging named acting chief executive Mike Creedon chief executive in May.

In May, Silicon Biosystems opened a lab facility in San Diego, California.

Product Introductions

In May, UVP introduced the GelMax Imager for the fast, easy imaging of precast and mini gels. The modular design enables placement of interchangeable Samples Plates, which convert midrange UV to specific wavelengths.

Bio-Rad Laboratories released in May the ProteOn LCP Liposome Capturing Kit and ProteOn GLC Lipid Kit for its ProteOn XPR36 protein-interaction analysis system.

In May, ForteBio, a Pall company, launched the Dip and Read Ni-NTA biosensors for use on its Octet and BLItz instrument platforms for rapid and direct quantitation and kinetic analysis of HIS-tagged biomolecules.