Company Announcements Anton Paar established new subsidiaries in Italy and Turkey in December 2011. Hach named VWR a local distributor for its laboratory products in Australia and New Zealand. Technology trading group Addtech Life Science acquired BioNordika in January. BioNordika markets reagents and instruments for biomedical research and has annual sales of around SEK 80 […]
Company Announcements MANTECH named DKSH its exclusive distributor and provider of market expansion services for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Senova Systems, a developer of pH sensing technology, announced in January that it raised $6.7 million in Series B financing, which was led by Phoenix Venture Partners. Hanna Instruments named two new exclusive […]
Company Announcements Bruker announced in November 2011 a collaboration with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to develop and distribute new structural biology methods and tools to integrate small-angle X-ray scattering with NMR. In March, Oxford Instruments entered into an agreement for Active Spectrum to develop and manufacture micro-electron magnetic resonance (EMR) products to be sold […]
Company Announcements In January, Battelle announced a strategic investment in CosmosID, which is a metagenomics software company focused on environmental biosurveillance and microbial identification. CLC bio announced that software sales increased 30% in 2011, and operating profit grew more than 50% to over $1 million. A total of 1,500 organizations own licenses to its software, […]
Company Announcements Avantes expanded its UK operations in January, opening an office in Leatherhead, Surrey. In January, FOSS opened a subsidiary in Central America, based in Mexico City, Mexico, bringing the number of FOSS subsidiaries to 27. It was created through the integration of former distributor Operadora ETESA. Product Introductions Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the […]
Company Announcements Swedish firm Nanosep declared bankruptcy in November 2011. In January, Quanterix announced a strategic investment and technology agreement with In-Q-Tel for the development of its Single Molecule Array technology to enable simultaneous measurement of both nucleic acids and proteins for the detection of pathogens. Nabsys named Stan Rose, PhD, former CEO of NimbleGen […]
Company Announcements ChromaCon granted Knauer a semi-exclusive license in fall 2011 for the Contichrom lab-scale preparative chromatography unit for use in discovery, process development and small-scale production. Bruker disclosed in a fall 2011 SEC filing that it acquired Michrom Bioresources for $3.8 million (see IBO 2/28/11). LabLogic Systems appointed SI Healthcare as a representative for […]
Company Announcements Illumina named Laura Lauman vice president of Marketing in December 2011. She was formerly president of AB SCIEX. In January, Illumina appointed Marc Stapley senior vice president and CFO. Previously, he was senior vice president, Finance, at Pfizer. The Austin Business Journal reported in December 2011 that Thermo Fisher Scientific will hire 150 […]
Company Announcements Affymetrix entered into an agreement in October 2011 with the Broad Institute to chart the genomic changes involved in more than 20 types of cancer as part of the Broad’s work on the Cancer Genome Atlas. Using Affymetrix’s Genome-Wide Human SNP 6.0 Array, 13,500 cancer samples will be processed. In November 2011, Affymetrix […]
Company Announcements Diffinity Genomics signed in November 2011 a distribution agreement with Sigma-Aldrich for the RapidTip for PCR Purification product line. Denator named three new distributors: Bio-xplorer International for China, Bosung Scientific for Korea and GenDiscovery Biotechnology for Taiwan. In December 2011, Pressure BioSciences announced a distribution agreement with IUL Instruments for Germany and Switzerland. […]
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