VWR Acquires National Biochemicals
February 3, 2015
RADNOR, Pa.-- VWR (NASDAQ: VWR), a leading, independent provider of laboratory products, services and solutions, announced today that it has acquired National Biochemicals (NBC), a full service raw material manufacturer and supplier to the biochemical industry. This acquisition will enhance VWR's growing custom chemical and biochemical manufacturing portfolio, building upon previous successful acquisitions in this [...]
Astrotech Corporation Appoints Raj Mellacheruvu as Chief Operating Officer
February 3, 2015
AUSTIN, Texas -- Astrotech Corporation (Nasdaq:ASTC) today announced that it has appointed Raj Mellacheruvu as Chief Operating Officer ("COO") of the Company. Mr. Mellacheruvu’s appointment is effective as of February 2, 2015. In this new role, Mr. Mellacheruvu will report to Thomas B. Pickens III, Chairman & CEO of Astrotech Corporation, and help lead business [...]
Daniel P. Huttenlocher, Cornell Dean, Named to Corning Board of Directors
February 3, 2015
CORNING, N.Y. -– Corning Incorporated (NYSE: GLW) today appointed Daniel P. Huttenlocher, vice provost and dean at Cornell University, to Corning’s Board of Directors, effective Feb. 3, 2015. Huttenlocher will serve on the board’s finance and audit committees. He will hold office until Corning’s annual meeting of shareholders in April 2015, at which time he [...]
Trinean to be awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification
February 3, 2015
Gentbrugge -– Trinean, the leading provider of microfluidic spectrophotometry platforms, today announced that it has been awarded ISO 9001:2008 certification for its Quality Management System. The auditing and certification were performed by SGS, the world's leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. The certification of Trinean’s Quality Management System relates to the design, research and [...]
February 3, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO -- Twist Bioscience today named Patrick J. Finn, Ph.D., as vice president of sales and marketing. Dr. Finn, a seasoned executive with almost 20 years of life sciences industry leadership, brings extensive experience commercializing new technologies and joins Twist as the company plans to launch its synthetic biology platform services this year. "As [...]
February 3, 2015
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Laboratories characterizing monoclonal antibodies (mAb) now have additional hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) selectivity options, thanks to the expanded family of Thermo Scientific MAbPac HIC HPLC columns. New Thermo Scientific MAbPac HIC-20 and MAbPac HIC-Butyl columns join the company’s line of columns for monoclonal antibody analysis, a response to customer demand for [...]
February 3, 2015
Pittsfield, MA – Nuclea Biotechnologies, Inc. announced today that it is partnering with BacterioScanTM INC. (St. Louis, Missouri )in validation of their BacterioScan 216Dx instrument in a CLIA certified laboratory. This collaboration will focus on antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) to guide the best course of antibiotic treatment for different strains of urinary tract infections. BacterioScanTM [...]
February 2, 2015
Billerica, MA — EMD Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced an agreement for providing upstream process development services for Precision Biologics, Inc., a Texas-based clinical-stage biotechnology company, to advance a preclinical monoclonal antibody. The antibody, NEO-201, binds to a tumor-specific antigen found in several forms of cancer, offering therapeutic [...]
Rubicon Genomics Reports Robust 2014 Sales Growth
February 2, 2015
Ann Arbor, MI –– Rubicon Genomics, Inc., today reported that sales increased 28% in 2014, fueled by new product introductions and new agreements with distributors in Europe, North Africa, North America and Asia. Rubicon’s DNA library preparation products for arrays and Illumina® next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms include ThruPLEX®DNA-seq, PicoPLEXTM DNA-seq, PicoPLEX WGA kits and TransPLEX® [...]
ACEA Biosciences, Inc. Adds to its Leadership
February 2, 2015
SAN DIEGO, California -- ACEA Biosciences, Inc., a pioneer in the development and commercialization of high performance, cutting edge cell analysis platforms for life science research, is pleased to announce Michael Honeysett as Vice President of Global Commercialization. Mike Honeysett is a seasoned executive in the life science cellular analysis industry. He has created significant [...]
