Dan Calvo appointed CEO of Gyros AB; Erik Walldén steps down
October 23, 2013
Uppsala, Sweden: Gyros AB, a leader in utilization of microfluidic technologies to miniaturize and automate immunoassays, announced that Erik Walldén will step down as chief executive officer and president and be replaced by Dan Calvo. Both changes will be effective immediately. Erik Walldén joined Gyros in 2009. Under his leadership Gyros has successfully established itself [...]
October 23, 2013
ANDOVER, Mass. -- MKS Instruments, Inc. (Nasdaq:MKSI), a global provider of technologies that enable advanced processes and improve productivity, today announced that Leo Berlinghieri will retire as Chief Executive Officer and a Director of MKS at year-end 2013. The Board of Directors has elected Gerald G. Colella, who currently serves as President and Chief Operating [...]
October 23, 2013
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.-- NextCODE Health, a new private company enabling accelerated diagnosis of genetic diseases through the use of sequence data, announced today that it has secured an exclusive license for sequence-based clinical diagnostic applications using technology developed by deCODE genetics. The company also secured $15 million in Series A financing from Polaris Partners and ARCH [...]
October 22, 2013
New York City, New York; Redwood City, California, and Hilden, Germany — QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that the Mount Sinai Genetic Testing Laboratory and the Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology at Mount Sinai in New York City have adopted the Ingenuity® Variant Analysis™ solution for research and [...]
October 22, 2013
SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Affymetrix, Inc. (NASDAQ:AFFX) announces the launch of Axiom Strawberry Genotyping Array (also called International Strawberry 90K SNP array or IStraw90), the only solution that successfully enables high-resolution genotyping and fully automated data analysis of the octoploid strawberry genome. This 90,000 SNP array will enable complex trait research and set the stage for [...]
October 22, 2013
CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced the inaugural Ion Torrent™ Breakthrough Award 2013 winner. The winning publication is "Thymus-derived regulatory T cells contribute to tolerance to commensal microbiota," published in the May 2013 edition of Nature. The paper's first author, Ms. Anna Cebula, a graduate student of the Center for Biotechnology [...]
PerkinElmer Opens Center for Innovation Outside of Boston
October 22, 2013
PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced the opening of a new Center for Innovation in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. The facility features a state-of-the-art laboratory space where PerkinElmer engineers, scientists and customers can interact and share insights to benefit the life sciences market. The [...]
October 22, 2013
Charlottesville, VA –– Phthisis Diagnostics has announced its acquisition by Microbiologics, a St. Cloud, Minnesota-based company. Phthisis’ innovative, patented G-Sphere® molecular standards product line will be the foundation for Microbiologics’ launch into molecular products and a new division it is forming for this fresh direction. G-Sphere® standards are synthetic genes that provide safe, stable, consistent, [...]
Biosimilar Characterization R&D Facility Opens in Austria
October 22, 2013
SALZBURG, Austria – The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Biosimilar Characterization is now open at the Paris-Lodron University of Salzburg, and scientists there have commenced developing new methods for characterizing proteins to be used in biopharmaceuticals. The new facility, co-funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth, as well as the County of [...]
October 22, 2013
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Dr. Guibin Jiang has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in recognition of his seminal contributions to China's environmental research and conservation efforts. Dr. Jiang is director of the State Key Lab of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences' [...]
