Spark Holland B.V. a leading supplier of analytical sample prep and sample introduction instrumentation, announced today the addition of LEAP Technologies to its distribution sales and service network in the United States as a Spark Holland “Value Added Partner.” With this addition, LEAP Technologies will be able to provide Spark Holland products and services to customers in the United States.
Merck Millipore, the Life Science business of Merck, and Singulex, the developer and leading provider of Single Molecule Counting (SMCTM) technology for clinical diagnostics and scientific discovery, today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Merck Millipore will control and manage the Singulex Life Science Research business.
Under the terms of the agreement, Merck Millipore will pay Singulex an upfront payment, royalties and additional payments based upon achievement of certain commercial milestones. Merck Millipore will have exclusive rights to further develop and commercialize the SMC technology for research applications worldwide....
Haydale Ltd., a leader in the development of enhanced graphene and nanoparticulate materials, has announced its decision to sponsor the Cambridge Graphene Festival (5-6th November 2015)
The Cambridge Graphene Festival is a prime event for networking and learning more about the latest advances in commercialising Graphene and related materials in sectors such as electronics, displays, energy storage, composite, packaging, aerospace & defence and automotive. The festival includes a program of events to be held mainly in Cambridge's new Graphene Building, with an exhibition of technology and tours of labs as well as...
Pittcon and its sponsoring society, The Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh (SSP) are pleased to announce Juergen Popp as the recipient of the 2016 Pittsburgh Spectroscopy Award.
Popp studied chemistry at the universities of Erlangen and Wuerzburg, Germany. Since 2002, he has been a chair for Physical Chemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, and in 2006, became the Director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena.He has published more than 540 journal papers, has been named as an inventor on 12 patents in the field of spectroscopic instrumentation and is the founding editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biophotonics. In 2012, he...
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the world’s largest multilateral bank, today reaffirmed its firm commitment to respond to the Ebola pandemic.
The Bank has provided a EUR 50 million loan to Bavarian Nordic, an international biopharmaceutical company, for accelerated development of an Ebola vaccine with long-term efficacy. The financing is also backing research into vaccines for treating other infectious diseases and multiple cancer indications. EIB Vice-President Jonathan Taylor stated: “We are pleased to be partnering with Bavarian Nordic in this breakthrough operation, as it enables...
Since April 2015, Gary Etherington has assumed the management of the JULABO subsidiary in the UK.
Gary Etherington has significant experience within the laboratory market in the UK, Ireland and the USA. He started his career as application support specialist. In the course of his career he successfully proved himself in both product management and sales. He has previously been part of the JULABO team before as Sales & Marketing Manager at JULABO USA. Further missions were calorimetry specialist companies. Lately he was responsible for the worldwide sales of laboratory products...
This year, Inoviem Scientific has raised over €1 million ($1,12 million) to produce and market its innovative services for selecting leads and determining molecule mechanisms of action under physiological conditions
Inoviem Scientific, a Contract Research Biotech (CRB) company today announces that it has received additional funding of €545,000 ($611,000) from French public investment bank bpifrance. The company leverages two proprietary technologies to offer pharmaceutical players increased speed and enhanced safety at all stages of drug development; from drug discovery (the identification of secondary targets and detection of potential...
Established initially as SANYO-Gallenkamp in 1990, the company evolved slowly, but solidly, and with a clear vision, into the modern, market-oriented, biomedical company that is now represented in every European country.
The world’s first lowest temperature freezer, a continuous contamination control concept for safer cell culture and the ultimate sample security VIP Dual Cool freezer are just a few of the many key, ground-breaking introductions that Panasonic has made over the last 25 years. And the articles in this Journal show how these Panasonic developments can help you in your daily challenge to do your work better, easier and more efficiently.
The major earthquake that struck west of Kathmandu, hits one of the poorest regions in the world.
The earthquake caused extensive damage to buildings and thousands of deaths and injuries. Vibrations were even felt in China, India and Bangladesh. Thousands of people need medical care and emergency shelters against rain and cold. The international department of Caritas Germany provides a 100 000 Euro emergency aid to help the victims as fast as possible. BMG LABTECH wants to help too and donated 10 000 Euro to the organization...
Analytik Jena has once again acquired a major order from its most important export region, China.
The Company will supply a total of 33 atomic absorption spectrometers of the ZEEnit 700 P product to the “Water Resources Bureau” of the Chinese metropolis Chongqing, which is responsible for preserving the drinking water quality of the groundwater resources and for protecting the natural characteristics of the water systems there. The devices will be used to analyze and monitor the rural drinking water quality in the region, which is home to more than 30 million people.
Dr Caifu Chen to lead new product development at California site
Already the world’s leader in custom nucleic acid synthesis, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) is capitalizing on its expertise to deliver a broader range of validated molecular biology products. Research and development for these products will now be performed in a newly built facility in Redwood City, California. The 8,000 square foot building houses state-of-the-art labs that will allow IDT scientists to maximize the company’s world-class...
ACHEMA 2015 from 15 to 19 June in Frankfurt. Hall 4.2, BoothJ38
Starting on 15 June 2015 JULABO will be presenting a comprehensive and innovative 'World of Temperature' to its guests at the ACHEMA exhibition in Frankfurt. As one of the leading manufacturers of temperature control technology, JULABO will provide an extensive overview of a variety of temperature control solutions for special applications in laboratories and industry as well as daily applications. At the JULABO booth, visitors will have the one-time opportunity to become acquainted with the complex JULABO portfolio of heating and refrigerated circulators, highly dynamic process circulators, recirculating coolers and water baths.
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading international supplier for the biopharmaceutical industries, today acquired the Scottish company BioOutsource Ltd.
The privately owned company based in Glasgow, UK, has been operating in the biotechnology market since 2007, and in the last twelve months earned revenue of around 9 million euros with approx. 85 employees. The contractual parties agreed not to disclose any further details of the transaction. BioOutsource provides contract testing services to global biopharmaceutical clients in order to monitor the safety and quality of biologic drugs and...
Oxford Global is proud to present its 16th Annual Drug Discovery Summit and the co-located 3rd Annual Discovery Chemistry & Drug Design Congress taking place in Berlin on the 8th and 9th of June 2015.
Over the years the congress has taken place in Geneva, however this year it will be held at the Hotel Palace Berlin in Germany. Our prestigious Summit brings together prominent decision makers working at the forefront of research into target based discovery, phenotypic screening, preclinical biomarkers, and medicinal chemistry. Over 250 delegates will be representing leading biotech companies, global pharmaceutical organisations and...
Savings of up to 50% offered to help upskill workforces in the pharma, biotech and medical device sectors
Pharmaceutical Training International (PTI), the leading supplier of online and public event-based training courses for the pharma, biotech and medical device sectors, is now providing up to 50% concession per learner per course. Following its recent introduction of innovative game-based e-learning modules, PTI is providing the opportunity to make substantial savings on its full range of training courses to start-ups and SMEs (with fewer than...
Freeman Technology, the powder characterisation specialists, will be exhibiting the FT4 Powder Rheometer®, a universal powder tester, at ACHEMA 2015 (Frankfurt, Germany; 15-19 June 2015), and will be distributing the recently released booklet ‘The Value of Powder Testing’.
Visitors will have the opportunity to discuss their individual powder processing challenges with the Freeman Technology team on stand 4.2 L36, where they will be able to see a demonstration of the FT4 Powder Rheometer and collect a copy of ‘The Value of Powder Testing’, the third in a series of educational guides on powder characterisation. The booklet evaluates the economic benefits that can be realised by incorporating relevant powder tests into an operation. It addresses key questions such as what makes...
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), the international life science company supplying research tools and services that power genomics research and the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has signed a supply and commercialization agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science.
Under the terms of the agreement, Thermo Fisher will market and distribute Horizon’s X-MAN human haploid and diploid isogenic cell line collection and will further offer Horizon’s X-MAN haploid cell line generation service to its worldwide customer base. The X-MAN cell line range represents an extensive bank of genetically defined human cell lines – models that accurately exhibit disease-causing genetics, and have undergone a high degree of...
Analytik Jena’s PlasmaQuant ® MS was presented to the public at the Analytica Expo in Moscow during a workshop held at the Analytik Jena booth.
Used for element trace analysis, the system is suitable for a wide range of routine applications in environmental analysis, food safety, mining, chemistry, and petrochemistry. A workshop, held on April 14, and a conference devoted to ICP methods, which followed on April 15, were attended by leading scientists and experts in mass spectroscopy. The outstanding presentation made by Iouri Kalinitchenko, Head of Research and Development for ICP-MS, which...
Company raises $5M from Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital to scale up commercial operations.
Benchling, Inc., a leading-developer of cloud based tools for life science, today announced the launch of its new platform which accelerates R&D by tracking experiment details, facilitating collaboration, and streamlining data analysis. The company also announced that it closed $5 million in new financing led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Thrive Capital. As biotech R&D becomes increasingly distributed across organizations...
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK), leading manufacturer of analytical thermal desorbers and time-of-flight mass spectrometers, has today had its export success recognised through receiving a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
The accolade, in the International Trade category, was received for demonstrating ‘outstanding achievement’ in overseas earnings, sustained over a period of at least three years. Alun Cole, Managing Director of Markes International, said "It is an honour to be recognised by Her Majesty the Queen for the strength of our export business, and I believe it reflects many years of hard work and dedication from everyone at Markes...
PlasmaQuant® MS Mass Spectrometer One of the Top Three Nominations for the Innovation Award
At this year’s Forum LABO & BIOTECH, the most important industry trade fair for analytics, laboratory technology, and biotechnology, Analytik Jena AG’s new PlasmaQuant® MS mass spectrometer was one of the top three nominations for the trade fair’s Innovation Award in the category Productivity and Profitability. With this award, Forum LABO & BIOTECH recognizes product innovations in which particular emphasis was placed on ease of use...
Interface between StarDrop and Plexus facilitates seamless access to both software platforms
Optibrium™ and ChemAxon™, developers of software and cheminformatics solutions for drug discovery, today announced the results of a collaboration to integrate ChemAxon’s Plexus™ with Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software suite. The integration of these platforms further enables researchers to develop strategies for efficient, high quality compound library design. The StarDrop software platform from Optibrium facilitates multi-parameter optimisation...
Spark Holland B.V. a leading supplier of analytical sample prep and sample introduction instrumentation, announced today the addition of LEAP Technologies to its distribution sales and service network in the United States as a Spark Holland “Value Added Partner.” With this addition, LEAP Technologies will be able to provide Spark Holland products and services to customers in the United States.
Under the terms of the agreement, Merck Millipore will pay Singulex an upfront payment, royalties and additional payments based upon achievement of certain commercial milestones. Merck Millipore will have exclusive rights to further develop and commercialize the SMC technology for research applications worldwide....
The Cambridge Graphene Festival is a prime event for networking and learning more about the latest advances in commercialising Graphene and related materials in sectors such as electronics, displays, energy storage, composite, packaging, aerospace & defence and automotive. The festival includes a program of events to be held mainly in Cambridge's new Graphene Building, with an exhibition of technology and tours of labs as well as...
Popp studied chemistry at the universities of Erlangen and Wuerzburg, Germany. Since 2002, he has been a chair for Physical Chemistry at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, and in 2006, became the Director of the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology, Jena.He has published more than 540 journal papers, has been named as an inventor on 12 patents in the field of spectroscopic instrumentation and is the founding editor and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Biophotonics. In 2012, he...
The Bank has provided a EUR 50 million loan to Bavarian Nordic, an international biopharmaceutical company, for accelerated development of an Ebola vaccine with long-term efficacy. The financing is also backing research into vaccines for treating other infectious diseases and multiple cancer indications. EIB Vice-President Jonathan Taylor stated: “We are pleased to be partnering with Bavarian Nordic in this breakthrough operation, as it enables...
Gary Etherington has significant experience within the laboratory market in the UK, Ireland and the USA. He started his career as application support specialist. In the course of his career he successfully proved himself in both product management and sales. He has previously been part of the JULABO team before as Sales & Marketing Manager at JULABO USA. Further missions were calorimetry specialist companies. Lately he was responsible for the worldwide sales of laboratory products...
Inoviem Scientific, a Contract Research Biotech (CRB) company today announces that it has received additional funding of €545,000 ($611,000) from French public investment bank bpifrance. The company leverages two proprietary technologies to offer pharmaceutical players increased speed and enhanced safety at all stages of drug development; from drug discovery (the identification of secondary targets and detection of potential...
The world’s first lowest temperature freezer, a continuous contamination control concept for safer cell culture and the ultimate sample security VIP Dual Cool freezer are just a few of the many key, ground-breaking introductions that Panasonic has made over the last 25 years. And the articles in this Journal show how these Panasonic developments can help you in your daily challenge to do your work better, easier and more efficiently.
The earthquake caused extensive damage to buildings and thousands of deaths and injuries. Vibrations were even felt in China, India and Bangladesh. Thousands of people need medical care and emergency shelters against rain and cold. The international department of Caritas Germany provides a 100 000 Euro emergency aid to help the victims as fast as possible. BMG LABTECH wants to help too and donated 10 000 Euro to the organization...
Already the world’s leader in custom nucleic acid synthesis, Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) is capitalizing on its expertise to deliver a broader range of validated molecular biology products. Research and development for these products will now be performed in a newly built facility in Redwood City, California. The 8,000 square foot building houses state-of-the-art labs that will allow IDT scientists to maximize the company’s world-class...
The privately owned company based in Glasgow, UK, has been operating in the biotechnology market since 2007, and in the last twelve months earned revenue of around 9 million euros with approx. 85 employees. The contractual parties agreed not to disclose any further details of the transaction. BioOutsource provides contract testing services to global biopharmaceutical clients in order to monitor the safety and quality of biologic drugs and...
Pharmaceutical Training International (PTI), the leading supplier of online and public event-based training courses for the pharma, biotech and medical device sectors, is now providing up to 50% concession per learner per course. Following its recent introduction of innovative game-based e-learning modules, PTI is providing the opportunity to make substantial savings on its full range of training courses to start-ups and SMEs (with fewer than...
Visitors will have the opportunity to discuss their individual powder processing challenges with the Freeman Technology team on stand 4.2 L36, where they will be able to see a demonstration of the FT4 Powder Rheometer and collect a copy of ‘The Value of Powder Testing’, the third in a series of educational guides on powder characterisation. The booklet evaluates the economic benefits that can be realised by incorporating relevant powder tests into an operation. It addresses key questions such as what makes...
Under the terms of the agreement, Thermo Fisher will market and distribute Horizon’s X-MAN human haploid and diploid isogenic cell line collection and will further offer Horizon’s X-MAN haploid cell line generation service to its worldwide customer base. The X-MAN cell line range represents an extensive bank of genetically defined human cell lines – models that accurately exhibit disease-causing genetics, and have undergone a high degree of...
Used for element trace analysis, the system is suitable for a wide range of routine applications in environmental analysis, food safety, mining, chemistry, and petrochemistry. A workshop, held on April 14, and a conference devoted to ICP methods, which followed on April 15, were attended by leading scientists and experts in mass spectroscopy. The outstanding presentation made by Iouri Kalinitchenko, Head of Research and Development for ICP-MS, which...
Benchling, Inc., a leading-developer of cloud based tools for life science, today announced the launch of its new platform which accelerates R&D by tracking experiment details, facilitating collaboration, and streamlining data analysis. The company also announced that it closed $5 million in new financing led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Thrive Capital. As biotech R&D becomes increasingly distributed across organizations...
The accolade, in the International Trade category, was received for demonstrating ‘outstanding achievement’ in overseas earnings, sustained over a period of at least three years. Alun Cole, Managing Director of Markes International, said "It is an honour to be recognised by Her Majesty the Queen for the strength of our export business, and I believe it reflects many years of hard work and dedication from everyone at Markes...
At this year’s Forum LABO & BIOTECH, the most important industry trade fair for analytics, laboratory technology, and biotechnology, Analytik Jena AG’s new PlasmaQuant® MS mass spectrometer was one of the top three nominations for the trade fair’s Innovation Award in the category Productivity and Profitability. With this award, Forum LABO & BIOTECH recognizes product innovations in which particular emphasis was placed on ease of use...
Optibrium™ and ChemAxon™, developers of software and cheminformatics solutions for drug discovery, today announced the results of a collaboration to integrate ChemAxon’s Plexus™ with Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software suite. The integration of these platforms further enables researchers to develop strategies for efficient, high quality compound library design. The StarDrop software platform from Optibrium facilitates multi-parameter optimisation...