The second of IBO’s biannual features on new labs highlights facilities from the academic, government and industrial sectors, spanning a variety of disciplines. The table on page 6 lists some of the largest planned academic lab buildings as well as facilities for drug development. Also featured in this article are labs for agriculture, disease and […]

Tremendous progress has been made in using multiple reaction monitoring MS (MRM-MS) for verification of clinical biomarkers, for which it is widely used and accepted. Targeted proteomics, in which a subset of candidate biomarkers are detected and measured, using MRM-MS enables multiplex, high-throughput quantification from a few up to hundreds of proteins per sample, reducing […]

Agilent Lowers Outlook Given currency and the discontinued NMR business (see IBO 3/31/15), which reduced sales growth by 7% and 1%, respectively, Agilent Technologies fiscal third quarter sales ending July 31 grew 0.5% to $1,014 million (see page 12). Despite the modest growth, sales were above analysts’ expectations. Core sales, which exclude the NMR business, […]

Company Announcements In June, Genedata announced an alliance with IntelliCyt to integrate their respective Genedata Screener software and iQue Screener systems. In August, IntelliCyt named SpectraGenetics as the latest TAP awardee and partner. The TAP program collaborates with scientists and commercial partners to advance cell- and bead-based assays. Biolin Scientific named Thais T. Johansen as […]

Company Announcements SIRION Biotech announced in June that it will open an office in the Boston, Massachusetts, area. Advanced Cell Diagnostics raised $22 million in Series C equity financing, led by Summit Partners. Hepregen announced a European comarketing agreement with SOLVO Biotechnology for its HepatoPac and HepatoMune kits. The Next Gen Consortium designated the nonprofit […]

The European Commission has released information about Horizon 2020’s first 100 calls for proposals, which closed on December 1, 2014. For these calls, 31,115 full, eligible proposals were submitted. Applications from those proposals numbered 123,334 and together requested €80.3 billion ($88.5 billion). Of the proposals, 4,315 were retained for funding, and 3,236 grant agreements were […]

Company Announcements Thermo Fisher Scientific announced in July a partnership with the CDC’s Special Bacteriology Reference Laboratory and the development of the MicrobeBridge software platform to seamlessly connect Sanger sequencing to the MicrobeNet database. Thermo also plans to develop compatible software for its NGS and MS platforms. In June, Contextual Genomics and Canada’s Personalized Medicine […]

With this month’s approval by the European Council of Ministers and Greece’s parliament of the most recent plan to bail out the country, prospects for Greece’s research budgets are improving. Since the Greek financial crisis began, researchers were dependent on international funds, such as Horizon 2020, to support their projects. Now, some money from the […]

This month, India’s Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved an INR 1,750 crore ($272 million) proposal to strengthen and upgrade the central and state drug regulatory systems over a three-year period. The central structures, which include the Central Drug Standards Organization (CDSCO), will receive INR 900 crore, and the state governments, after signing a memorandum […]