Company Announcements QuantuMDx Group received an exclusive license in October to several Nanosys patents and patent applications related to the use of nanostructures for biosensors, including field effect transistors biosensors, for the use for DNA sequencing and detecting nucleic acid biomarkers associated with disease. In October, Fluidigm appointed Research Instruments/RI Technologies as its distributor in […]

Company Announcements In September, the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences exclusively licensed its Underway Aiming System ocean light measurement software to Satlantic. Product Introductions WTW, a Xylem firm, launched the new inoLab 7110 series for measuring pH and conductivity without electronic documentation; the 7310 series for measuring pH, conductivity and dissolved oxygen (DO) with documentation; […]

Company Announcements On October 15, Bernd Brust resigned as president of Molecular Medicine at Life Technologies. Illumina named Dr. Daniel S. Grosu, MD, to the newly created position of vice president and chief medical officer in late October. He was previously group director, Clinical Science, Clinical and Medical Affairs at Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics. On October 31, […]

Company Announcements In December, the Alliance for Nanosystems VLSI, which was formed by the California Institute of Technology and CEA-Leti, launched Analytical Pixels. The company will design, manufacture and bring to market GC systems based on nanoelectromechanical system sensors. Product Introductions In October, Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the TraceGOLD GC Column with Safe Guard, which […]

Company Announcements In December, Analytik Jena announced that as part of its sales partnership with Japanese firm Techno-X, its Japanese subsidiary will offer instruments for X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF). The goal is to achieve sales of €1.5–€2.0 million ($2.0–$2.7 million) in fiscal 2012. Analytik Jena will fully incorporate Techno-X’s sales team into the sales structure […]

Company Announcements In September, the FDA, University of Maryland, their Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) and Waters opened the International Food Safety Training Laboratory to provide hands-on lab training on detection methods and classroom methods on regulatory standards. Operated by the JIFSAN, the lab will be able to teach 200 professionals […]

Company Announcements Certara announced in October that it will be the exclusive provider of Chemotargets’ software for predicting the off-target pharmacology of small molecules through the creation of customized ligand-based target models. In October, Accelrys agreed to market and sell SCYNEXIS’s Hit Explorer Operating System, a software-as-a-service workspace that supports real-time data sharing across multiple […]

Company Announcements In September, Verinata Health announced a three-year supply agreement to purchase Illumina’s HiSeq 2000 instruments and consumables for use in the commercialization of noninvasive prenatal testing for the detection of multiple aneuploidies. The companies will also collaborate on gaining regulatory approval for the testing service. In October, Illumina entered into a collaborative research […]

Company Announcements Ocean Optics named Kevin Chittim president in September, replacing Robert Randelman, who was promoted to divisional chief executive for parent company Halma. Mr. Chittim previously served as CEO of Labsphere, another Halma company. In October, Avacta extended its distribution agreement with Pall to include Southeast Asia. Product Introductions Picarro introduced the field-portable L2130-i […]

Company Announcements CPI International named General Manager Jarrett Wendt president and CEO in October. In October, BioSurplus opened a sales office in Incheon, South Korea, in partnership with jDepot. In October, Agilent and the Agilent Technologies Foundation selected Steven Carr, PhD, who directs the Proteomics Platform at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, for […]