Company Announcements Novasep named Michel Spagnol president and CEO in June. He was previously president and CEO of Shasun. In September, JSR made an investment in Natrix Separations and agreed to distribute Natrix’s HD Membrane Technology and Advective Chromatography products. Product Introductions In June, Waters launched CORTECS Columns, a new family of 1.6 µm solid […]

Company Announcements Trinean named BIOKÉ a distributor for the Netherlands and Germany. In July, SciAps announced the completion of an additional $2.3 million round of financing. ASD named LICA United Technology a distribution partner for China. In July, Princeton Instruments promoted William Asher, vice president of Product Development and Engineering, to president. Avacta expanded its […]

Company Announcements IKA opened subsidiaries in Brazil and South Korea this year and plans to manufacture products in Brazil. In June, VWR named Peter Schüle senior vice president and president, European Lab Business. He previously served as vice president, Supply Chain Europe, Middle East and Africa, at Sigma-Aldrich. In July, Avantor Performance Materials expanded its […]

Company Announcements DENSsolutions named Angstrom Scientific its distributor for North America. FEI announced in June a research collaboration agreement with the University of Oklahoma to establish an oil and gas center of excellence, which will focus on the development of routine quantitative methods to classify shales in the economic assessment of tight oil and gas […]

Company Announcements Life Technologies granted Suzhou Ribo Life Sciences exclusive rights to develop and manufacture siRNA therapeutics in China using its Invivofectamine Rx delivery technology. In July, Life Technologies announced a long-term supply and exclusive licensing agreement with Novartis for immunotherapeutics involving T cells modified to express chimeric antigen receptors for the treatment of cancer. […]

Company Announcements Roche Diagnostics’ second quarter sales of qPCR and NAP (nucleic acid purification) Systems increased 6%. Fiscal first quarter sales ending June 30 for Hitachi High-Technologies Science and Medical Systems (SMS) fell 18.0% to ¥29,100 million ($294.5 million) to account for 22% of revenues (see IBO 7/31/13). Biotechnology, Medical and Electron Microscopes declined 26.2%, […]

Company Announcements In July, AB SCIEX, Genedata and LECO partnered to deliver a collaborative software system to enable metabolomics researchers to process and analyze data across different GC/MS and LC/MS platforms. In July, Thermo Fisher Scientific agreed to exclusively distribute Mitsui Knowledge Industry’s Lipid Search software for the interpretation of lipidomic research data. In July, […]

Company Announcements Trovagene entered into a research agreement in June with Illumina to evaluate integrating their respective transrenal and sequencing technologies. The CEO of Life Technologies’ Ion Torrent business, Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, resigned in June. Ronnie Andrews, president of the Genetic and Medical Sciences organization, now oversees the business. Sage Science named Uniscience do Brasil […]

Company Announcements Advanced Cell Diagnostics and PerkinElmer entered into a comarketing agreement for their respective RNAscope multiplexed fluorescence assays and multispectral imaging technologies. Affymetrix promoted Gavin Wood to executive vice president and CFO in May. Most recently, he served as vice president, Finance, International Controller. PathoGenetix and Applied Maths agreed in June to integrate their […]

Company Announcements BioTek Instruments established a Japanese office, located in Tokyo, effective July 1. BioTek will continue to work with existing distributor Central Scientific Comm. In July, Brooks Automation named Robyn C. Davis to its Board. She is managing director of AngelHealthcare Investors. TTP Labtech announced that product sales increased more than 20% in 2012 […]