Company Announcements

Agilent and Duquesne University announced the establishment of a Center of Excellence for MS for research in the life sciences and environmental analysis.

Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Biomarker Research Initiatives in MS Center extended its two-year collaboration with George Mason University’s Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine, John Hopkins University and Toronto’s University Health Network.

Thermo Fisher Scientific announced collaboration with Professor Bruno Domon, director of the Luxembourg Clinical Proteomics unit, to develop workflows that overcome bottlenecks in biomarker discovery and assay development for clinical proteomics research.

In April, Bruker Daltonics and KIESTRA Lab Automation announced an expanded partnership covering comarketing and cross-selling of their respective MALDI Biotyper and MalditofA automatic colony picker.

AB SCIEX formally opened in April its Asia Pacific Application Support Center in Shanghai, China, which includes seven demo labs.

In April, AB SCIEX announced collaboration with the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital to better understand cancer, diabetes and heart disease by advancing the study of proteins.

In May, Shimadzu and bioMérieux announced a partnership to commercialize a MS system for bacterial identification in microbiology labs by adapting the Kratos Analytical MALDI-TOF technology. The system will be commercialized later this year together with a microbial database acquired from AnagnosTec.

Waters announced in May a partnership with the University of Maryland to establish the International Food Safety Training Laboratory (IFSTL) to train scientists and manufacturers on methods for food safety analysis. The IFSTL will be operated by the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, collaboration between the University of Maryland and the FDA.

Waters will comarket PREMIER Biosoft’s SimGlycan software for glycan and glycopeptide analysis.

Product Introductions

IonSense introduced the 3+D MicroPlate-96 Screening Plate, which combines high-speed chemical analysis by DART MS with standard lab automation and is designed to be used with the DART 3+D Scanner.

Agilent released the Agilent Forensic Toxicology Application Kit for LC-QTOF, which includes the Broecker, Herre & Pragst PCDL database and library.

Sales/Orders of Note

Bruker announced in May that the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) selected the MALDI Biotyper workflow for microbial identification in clinical microbiology.