Company Announcements In fall 2015, DANI Instruments appointed Labindia Instruments as its exclusive GC distributor for India. In December 2015, Alpha MOS named John Paul Ansel as president and CEO. Alpha MOS 2015 revenues grew 9.2% to €8.2 million ($9.1 million). Sales in Japan, the US, Europe and Other declined 7.3%, 6.0%, 7.8% and 29.6% […]

Company Announcements Panorama Synergy announced in November 2015 an exclusive licensing agreement with the University of Western Australia for its MEMS-based optical spectroscopy sensor technology. Felix Instruments announced a joint marketing collaboration with Hanna Instruments for the US. Trinean announced in February that its DropSense96 spectrophotometer was integrated with Freeslate’s (now Unchained Labs’) CM3 automation […]

Company Announcements ZEISS announced that fiscal 2015 revenues for the year ending September 30, 2015, for the Research & Quality Technology business, consisting of the Industrial Metrology and Microscopy business groups, increased 11.4% to €1,356 million ($1,559 million) to make up 30% of company revenues. Microscopy sales were below expectations. In January, TESCAN USA appointed […]

Company Announcements SomaLogic established in December 2015 its first continental European SOMAscan Assay Site at VU University Medical Center Amsterdam. Mimetas received $1.6 million in industry funding to develop an organ-on-a-chip model for neurotoxicity. Mimetas will lead a consortium that includes the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences and Cellular Dynamics. PerkinElmer and EpiCypher collaborated to […]

Company Announcements Berkeley Lights, which is developing nanofluidic biosystems for single-cell analysis, announced in September 2015 that it raised $90 million in funding to date in partnership with Sequoia and Walden Riverwood Ventures. Berkeley Lights announced early access agreements with the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai and the University of […]

Company Announcements For the fiscal half year ending September 2015, Oxford Instruments sales fell 5.8%, down 2.8% organically, to £164.8 million ($253.5 million) (see IBO 11/15/15). Growth was hampered by weak global Industrial Analysis sales within the Industrial Products segment, which fell 7.9% organically. While organic growth for the Nanotechnology Tools segment was marginally lower, […]

Company Announcements AstraZeneca announced in November 2015 a five-year collaboration with Genedata to speed up data sharing. AstraZeneca will share the collaboration platform software with early-stage partners. In January, Schrödinger announced a research collaboration agreement with Pfizer to develop a computational model for predicting key properties relevant to biotherapeutic candidates. Qlucore named Genomax as a […]

Company Announcements SYGNIS announced in December 2015 a US distribution agreement with Lucigen focused on single-cell amplification for NGS in the clinical oncology research market. In January, NRGene signed a comarketing agreement with Illumina to promote its de novo assembly informatics solution exclusively using Illumina technology. PierianDX closed a $9.3 million Series A financing, led […]

Company Announcements NanoTemper Technologies opened an office in Bengaluru, India, in November 2015. In December 2015, MR Solutions named Summit Pharmaceuticals as its sole supplier for Japan. MR Solutions announced in January a partnership with Green Imaging Technologies and the introduction of the ImaCore 3017 for rock core imaging. In December 2015, MBio Diagnostics announced […]