Company Announcements Transgenomic licensed Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Cold-PCR technology, including the exclusive right to commercialize it combined with Sanger sequencing and the right to use it for mitochondrial DNA analysis. Cepheid named Nicolaas Arnold executive vice president of Worldwide Commercial Operations in October 2009. Most recently, he was regional vice president for Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics […]
Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific announced in November 2009 that Inverness Medical Innovations ended its supply agreement for Biosite diagnostic products effective July. Annual revenues from the agreement are expected to be $200 million in 2009 and less than half of that in 2010. An agreement with a new supplier is expected to generate $40 […]
Company Announcements Polychromix selected Anaytik as its exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland. Datacolor AG’s revenues for the year ended September 30, 2009 declined 29.2% to CHF 51.2 million ($46.0 million). Operating loss was CHF 2.5 million ($1.8 million), compared to a profit of CHF 2.7 million ($2.5 million) a year ago (see IBO […]
Agilent Buys Varian Although not officially completed (see IBO 12/31/09), the deal brings together two of the analytical instrument industry’s largest companies, creating a broad-based supplier of laboratory instrumentation and consumables, whose size and diversity of technology offerings for chromatography, MS, atomic spectrometry and molecular spectrometry is matched only by Bruker, Shimadzu and Thermo Fisher […]
Company Announcements Leica Microsystems named Optical Analysis as its new exclusive regional dealer for New England for industrial microscope and imaging equipment sales. Leica Microsystems’ exclusive South Central US regional dealer McBain Systems expanded its market coverage for microscope imaging products to industrial, educational and forensic customers to include Southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, New […]
Company Announcements South Korea–based DNA Link achieved Certified Service Provider (CSP) status for Agilent microarrays. DNA Link became the first CSP for Roche NimbleGen’s targeted enrichment and sequencing services. Eurofins MWG Operon joined Roche NimbleGen’s CSP Program for Sequence Capture. ImaGenes GmbH joined Roche NimbleGen’s CSP Program for ChIP-chip analysis. CombiMatrix entered into a supply […]
Company Announcements Chiral Technologies signed a sales agreement with LEACSA for Mexico. Dionex Executive Vice President and COO Kevin Chance resigned in October. Proxeon appointed six new distributors: Proteomic Solutions for France, Rigas Labs for Greece, Biosense for Italy, Alpha Analytical for Singapore, Scientech for Taiwan and Scinco for South Korea. Product Introductions GL Sciences […]
Company Announcements INTAVIS AG acquired the peptide synthesis unit of NMI Technologietransfer GmbH. Alnylam Pharmaceuticals granted KOKEN a license to manufacture and provide RNAi research products and services under the Kreutzer-Limmer patent family. ZyGEM named VERITAS Japan as its exclusive Japenese distributor. ZenBio agreed to distribute CELLnTEC Advanced Cell Systems’ epithelial progenitor cell–targeted in vitro […]
Company Announcements In August, plaintiffs dismissed their class action suit against VWR alleging the sale of chemicals to Saddam Hussein’s regime that were later used as weapons (see IBO 7/31/09). In October, the same action against Thermo Fisher Scientific was dismissed. Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies announced the election of three new directors to expand […]
Company Announcements Life Technologies appointed Jay Therrien as vice president, Global Sales for Next Generation Sequencing. Most recently, he served as director of Sales for Asia Pacific and Japan at Illumina. Fluidigm appointed Nano Gen Teknolojileri as its exclusive distributor for the BioMark and EP1 Systems in Turkey. GE formed the “GE Healthyimagination Fund,” an […]
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