MKS Completes Acquisition of Granville-Phillips
May 30, 2014
ANDOVER, Mass.-- MKS Instruments, Inc. (Nasdaq:MKSI), a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, today announced it has completed its acquisition of the assets of Granville-Phillips, formerly a division of Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS), for $87 million in cash. Granville-Phillips is a leading global provider of vacuum measurement and control instruments [...]
May 30, 2014
CHICAGO -– Appistry, Inc., a leading provider of tools, software, and services that bring the power of genomics to next-generation medicine, today announced an agreement with Personal Genome Diagnostics (PGDx) to include the company’s CancerSelect™ panel in Appistry’s recently released Appistry CloudDx™ genomics testing service. PGDx, a provider of CLIA-compliant genomics services to oncology researchers, [...]
May 30, 2014
HILDEN, Germany, and GERMANTOWN, Maryland -— QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced a collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) to co-develop universal and modular assay panels for the simultaneous analysis of DNA and RNA biomarkers targeting multiple cellular pathways involved in common cancer types. The agreement includes the development [...]
Advanced Photonix, Inc. Announces Pricing Of Public Offering Of Common Stock
May 30, 2014
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Advanced Photonix, Inc.® (NYSE MKT: API) announced today that it priced an underwritten public offering of 5,391,304 shares of its Class A Common Stock at a public offering of $0.53 a share. Additionally, the Company has granted the underwriter an option exercisable for a 30-day period to the purchase up to [...]
Brooks Automation Closes Sale of Granville-Phillips to MKS Instruments
May 30, 2014
CHELMSFORD, Mass.-- Brooks Automation, Inc. (Nasdaq:BRKS) today announced that it has closed the sale of its Granville-Phillips instrumentation business, based in Longmont, CO, to MKS Instruments, Inc., headquartered in Andover, MA, for $87 million in cash. Granville-Phillips was founded in 1954, acquired by Helix Technology in 1998 and became part of Brooks through its merger [...]
May 30, 2014
San Diego, Calif. –– Agena Bioscience, Inc., a portfolio company of Telegraph Hill Partners (THP), today acquired the Bioscience business of Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ:SQNM), which sells the MassARRAY® System for mass spectrometry-based detection of nucleic acids in research and clinical laboratories. Agena Bioscience has retained the employees of the acquired segment and will remain headquartered [...]
May 30, 2014
New York, NY -- Enzo Biochem, Inc. (NYSE:ENZ), a vertically integrated biosciences and clinical laboratory company, announced today that its Life Sciences division has established a collaboration with Innate Pharma S.A. to support a novel application of its ProteoStat® products for antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) design. ADCs are monoclonal antibodies engineered to go unnoticed, delivering cytotoxic [...]
May 30, 2014
GLOSTRUP, Denmark -- Dako, an Agilent Technologies company and a worldwide provider of cancer diagnostics, today announced a collaboration with Merck & Co., Inc. (known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, through an affiliate) to develop a companion diagnostic test for the analysis of the potential tumor biomarker PD-L1 to aid in the [...]
May 29, 2014
ST. GEORGE, Utah and PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Intermountain Healthcare (an internationally recognized not-for-profit system of 22 hospitals, a medical group with over 185 physician clinics, and an affiliated health insurance company) and Syapse (the leading provider of software for bringing omics data into routine medical use) announced today a collaboration to bring genomics-driven precision [...]
Agilent Technologies Announces Support for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology in Korea
May 29, 2014
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -– Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced a strategic partnership with the Center for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WISET), a government organization based in Seoul to help advance women scientists and engineers in South Korea. Under the agreement, Agilent and WISET will jointly develop training programs that will be [...]

