Company Announcements MoBiTec GmbH agreed to distribute NIZO’s NICE (NIsin Controlled Gene Expression Systems) system for controlled gene expression in L. lactis. Luminex COO Douglas C. Bryant resigned in January to become president and CEO of Quidel. Sequenom named Allan T. Bombard, MD, to the newly created position of chief medical officer in January. Previously, […]
Company Announcements In January, MicroBioLogics acquired the assets of Gibson Laboratories, which supplies specialty media products, microorganisms, diagnostics and proficiency testing supplies. MicroBioLogics established a new subsidiary named Gibson Laboratories and will retain key members of Gibson’s management team. Integrated DNA Technologies signed a license agreement with LI-COR Biosciences to manufacture oligos for sale using […]
The Japanese government plans to create a ¥270 billion ($2.7 billion) fund for research. Up to 30 research teams would receive ¥9 billion in funding over a three-to-five year period. Unlike other research grants, funds left over could be used during the following fiscal year and researchers will be given greater freedom in how they […]
Sunnyvale, CA 4/14/09—Dionex has named Dr. Frank Witney president, CEO and a member of the Board of Directors effective April 30. He replaces Dr. Lukas Braunschweiler, who announced earlier this year that he was leaving the company to take a position at Ruag Holding AG (see IBO 12/15/08). Most recently, Dr. Witney served as executive […]
Billerica, MA 4/3/09—Bruker Advanced Supercon, a subsidiary of Bruker that provides low-temperature superconducting wire and high-temperature superconductor solutions, has acquired the research instruments portion of ACCEL Instruments GmbH from Varian Medical Systems for an undisclosed amount. Varian Medical retained ACCEL’s proton therapy business. As a result of the acquisition, Bruker has created two new subsidiaries: […]
A Brazilian pluripotent stem cell research initiative will award eight university labs with $9.3 million grants over three years to create Cell Technology Centers. One such Center, the National Laboratory for Human Embryonic Cells (LaNCE), based at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of São Paulo will house a national stem […]
Company Announcements Setaram agreed to distribute HEL’s range of adiabatic calorimeters. Anton Paar GmbH opened an Indian subsidiary in Delhi, in January and a Japanese subsidiary in Tokyo in February, bringing its total number of subsidiaries to 12. The company posted sales of €108 million ($148 million) in 2007 and its rheometry orders rose 14% […]
Although there have been some marginally portable near infrared (NIR) spectrometers available for a number of years, the market has recently taken off. This is due to the rise of more effective handheld NIR instruments. While the primary applications for portable and handheld NIR instruments are in the polymers and plastics industry, there is growing […]
Company Announcements Nikon Instruments expanded its distribution of JOEL’s NeoScope benchtop scanning electron microscope (see IBO 3/15/08) to Europe in December 2008. In January, SPECS GmbH, a developer of surface analysis tools and UHV equipment, acquired Nanosis GmbH, a supplier of nanotechnology control equipment. Nanosis’s operations will remain in Zurich, Switzerland. FEI’s 2008 revenues grew […]
According to Alcimed, a research group based in France, as many as 20% of small biotechnology firms in Europe could go bankrupt this year. These firms need new funding within the next year and a half in order to survive. Alcimed estimates that the sector needs at least $2.6 billion in annual funding to maintain […]
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