Company Announcements NanoString Technologies signed a multiyear, multi-investigator research collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital to accelerate the translation of genomic biomarker discoveries into clinical cancer diagnostics. NanoString retains the right to license diagnostic content developed within the scope of the collaboration. Affymetrix exclusively licensed technology from Peptide Groove that enables HLA typing of human […]
Company Announcements Protein Metrics exclusively licensed Pacific Northwest National Laboratory’s lipid-analysis software. Waters welcomed in October 2014 Colorado State University at Fort Collins’ Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility into its Center of Innovation Program. The facility applies nontargeted proteomics and metabolomics using LC/MS to advance food and veterinary science, and clinical and microbacterial research. Advion announced […]
Company Announcements Horizon Discovery named Dr. David Smoller, chief business officer, to its Board in November 2014. TriLink BioTechnologies appointed inVentis Technologies as a distributor for India. BioPointe Scientific named Cambio as its UK distributor. Cellular Dynamic appointed Susan A. Willetts to its Board in November 2014. She is an advisory director of Goldman, Sachs […]
Company Announcements Bruker announced on its third quarter 2014 conference call that its divestiture of certain GC and GC/MS assets (see IBO 10/15/14) and its ICP-MS (see IBO 8/15/14) business generated approximately $28 million in proceeds. As part of the CAM restructuring, Bruker is relocating GC triple-quadrupole MS manufacturing from Fremont, California, to Bremen, Germany, […]
Merck KGaA and Sigma-Aldrich Consolidation continued in the lab-products market, as less than a year after Thermo Fisher Scientific’s purchase of Life Technologies (see IBO 2/15/14), Merck KGaA announced a $17 billion deal to buy Sigma-Aldrich (see IBO 9/30/14). The deal highlights the importance of scale and diversification and transforms Merck/EMD Millipore into a major […]
Company Announcements Sias announced in July that its cofounders and major shareholders, Clare Dench and Pius Fink, stepped down from management duties. The company also split its Commercial Operations division into a Customers and Markets division and a Development division. Andrew Alliance opened an office in Boston, Massachusetts, in August. Precision System Science (PSS) and […]
Company Announcements In August, Fluid Imaging Technologies announced a partnership with DKSH for Japan. In October, KRÜSS named DKSH as its exclusive distributor for Vietnam. In September, CANNON Instrument acquired substantially all of the assets and business operations of UK-based Ravenfield Designs, a manufacturer of rotational viscometers for the European oil industry. In October, LUM […]
Company Announcements Nabsys named Anthony Shuber as vice president and CSO in October. He was previously CTO and vice president of Ignyta. Under an October agreement with Illumina, HTG Molecular Diagnostics will have the right to develop IVD test kits that utilize Illumina sequencing technology. Sequenta and Illumina agreed in November to commercialize an IVD […]
Company Announcements In August, Antonarp raised $8 million in a Series A round for development of the Smart Spectrometer technology platform for gas-composition analysis instruments. Optek named AMS Instrumentation & Calibration as its exclusive distributor for Australia. Cambridge Sensotec, which provides gas analysis systems, acquired Dynascan, a supplier of leak-detection products, in August. In August, […]
Company Announcements FEI opened a nearly 300,000 ft2, $38 million technology center in Brno, Czech Republic, in September. The facility expands the company’s operations in the city, employs around 600 people and is responsible for about 60% of the company’s electron-microscope production. In October, Yale University and Leica Microsystems opened a microscopy Center of Excellence. […]
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