A new company, Alizé Pharma III SAS, has been set up to develop this project
Dr. David Clemmons, co-inventor of the technology and a highly reputable key opinion leader in endocrinology and metabolism, will collaborate on the drug optimization and development programs. Alizé Pharma III SAS, an Alizé Pharma group company specialized in the development of biopharmaceuticals to treat metabolic disorders and rare diseases, today announces that it has acquired exclusive worldwide rights to...
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK) has launched a 'live chat' facility on its website, providing visitors with rapid access to Markes' analytical expertise.
The new online chat facility allows website visitors to 'speak'' directly with Markes' experts, simply by typing their message into the on-screen widget. The live chat feature is staffed by Markes' team of thermal desorption and time-of-flight mass spectrometry specialists in the UK and USA, and enables website visitors to get a quick answer to any question they may have about Markes, its products, or their applications...
Today ZoBio (Leiden, The Netherlands) and Domainex Ltd. (Cambridge, UK) announce a collaboration with FORMA Therapeutics (Watertown, MA, USA) to provide NMR-based structural biology services for a substantial panel of FORMA drug targets.
The goal of the collaboration is to use ZoBio’s expertise in protein nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to elucidate the molecular basis for compound-target interaction, to complement ongoing X-ray crystallography approaches. NMR is currently the only alternative to crystallography capable of elucidating atomic resolution, 3D structural information. Under the agreement, ZoBio will design and express protein variants suitable for structural studies, to support FORMA’s oncology drug discovery research. In addition, Domainex will apply its Combinatorial Domain Hunting technology to...
This award is recognition of both Pierre Fabre's expertise in dermatology, one of its development priorities, and of its ability to form public-private partnerships, such as that established with the University of Bordeaux
Recognition for major progress
Each year, the Prix Galien award distinguishes recent therapeutic innovations, made available to the public. It is conferred after an evaluation by an independent panel of experts and eminent specialists. Its renown and prestige have made it the highest distinction in the field. Pierre Fabre Dermatologie, a subsidiary of Pierre Fabre Dermo-Cosmetics, was distinguished today by the Prix Galien award (France) for Hemangiol®, an oral pediatric propranolol solution specifically developed for some severe infantile hemangiomas. Hemangiol® was successively approved...
Precisely engineered cell line will facilitate a new revenue stream and enable faster, more efficient production of therapeutic antibodies
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalized medicines, today announced that its Bioproduction division has shipped its first commercially available engineered CHO cell line for use in manufacturing of therapeutic antibodies. Horizon’s innovative licensing model brings these cutting edge bioproduction cells within reach of...
Huber Kältemaschinenbau to open a new branch establishment in the United States - the new US affiliate will be responsible for sales and service for USA, Canada and Mexico
Huber Kältemaschinenbau continues its international expansion. From this date, the expert for high precision thermoregulation headquartered in Offenburg, Germany will be represented in the USA by a new branch establishment. Under the name of "Huber USA Inc.", the new US affiliate will directly serve end users and dealers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Huber USA will be located in Cary, NC close to the Raleigh-Durham International...
Matrix Innovation, a world leader in the development of speciality resins, offers a wide variety of resins and polymers for organic and peptide synthesis.
Their diverse range, covering both standard and custom synthesis products, is now distributed in the UK by Cambio. With a strong emphasis on innovation and research in the field of polymer development, supported by a highly skilled team of chemists at the company’s R&D facility in Quebec, Canada, Matrix Innovation is ready to meet your custom needs. Matrix Innovation manufactures several hundred chemical products for research at...
Microbiology specialist Lab M will showcase its new convenient culture media product ranges at Arab Health, which takes place 26-29 January 2015 at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre.
With a commitment to providing high quality products that aid laboratories in their efforts to optimise efficiency and workflow, Lab M has long been recognised for its comprehensive portfolio of dehydrated culture media (DCM). Now a number of these formulations are available as Pinnacle™ pre-poured plates and µPREP™ ready-to-reconstitute bags for ease of use in any laboratory. Lab M’s µPREP™ ‘just-add-water’ range of...
Reliable proficiency testing supports external quality assurance programs in the U.S. food, beverage, animal feed, and pharmaceutical industries
ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, and LGC, a leading global producer and distributor of reference materials and proficiency testing (PT) programs, announce a new agreement to provide high-quality proficiency testing programs supporting the food, beverage, animal feed, and pharmaceutical quality control markets in the United States. As part of its ongoing mission to acquire, authenticate, preserve, develop...
The Pittcon marketing department is pleased to announce the release of its official conference and exposition mobile app, Pittcon 2015.
The app, available for free download in the App Store for iOS and Android devices and the Kindle Fire, serves as a valuable resource tool before, during and after the event. It acts as an all-inclusive real-time show guide containing details on exhibiting companies, technical sessions, Conferee Networking sessions and short courses. The Pittcon mobile conference app was developed by ATIV Software and is built on the EventPilot meeting...
Lab M is seeing demand grow quickly for the company’s recently launched µPrep™ Half Fraser Broth ISO (+FAC), a complete primary enrichment broth designed for use in the isolation of Listeria spp. from foodstuffs.
Media in Lab M’s µPrep™ range are supplied ready-to-reconstitute in 20 litre bags. They are designed primarily for high throughput laboratories where speed, convenience, reliability and cost-effectiveness are high priorities. “Since we launched µPrep™ Half Fraser Broth ISO (+FAC) in July 2014, customers have been very clear that simple reconstitution with no mess and no autoclaving is a significant factor in their choice of media format...
A Morphologi G3-ID particle characterization system from Malvern Instruments is opening cutting-edge research opportunities in environmental science at the School of Science, Environment and Engineering, Southern Cross University (SCU), in Australia.
The Morphologi G3-ID, which is sold and supported in Australia by ATA Scientific, combines automated particle imaging with Raman spectroscopy to deliver particle size, morphology and chemical identification of particles within a dispersion. The technique is helping users to better understand the composition and behavior of natural particles within the environment and is generating substantial cost and efficiency savings in areas that...
JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, announces the opening of their US offices in Southern California on 1st January, 2015.
Heading up this new organization is Dr Stefan Kaemmer who has been appointed General Manager of US Operations. Respected German technology leaders, JPK Instruments, are pleased to announce the opening of the first USA-based offices. With more than twelve years supplying nanoscale solutions worldwide for researchers in the bio, life and materials sciences, JPK is to open their offices in Southern California to support users across the...
Alpha Laboratories (Eastleigh, UK) is delighted to announce that it has been awarded a place on the Inter-Regional Laboratory Agreement (IRLA) for Consumables and Pipettes.
The agreement is open to SUPC, HEPCW, LUPC, NEUPC and NWUPC members and provides preferential terms for a wide range of quality laboratory consumables. Details of the products and prices available are covered in the Alpha Laboratories IRLA Buyer’s Guide. This can be obtained in glossy hard copy or electronic e-catalogue format, on request at www.alphalabs.co.uk/irla...
These high-profile experts will help with the quick and safe launch of the preclinical development program for a new class of antibiotics
Nosopharm, a company devoted to the research and development of new anti-infective drugs, today announces the appointment of four international experts to its scientific advisory board. These appointments reflect a new phase of development for its novel antibiotic class called Odilorhabdins. The members of the scientific advisory board will aid in the selection of a clinical candidate. This will be the first-generation Odilorhabdin derived from the...
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has acquired a license from ELITech Group (Bothell, WA) to manufacture and supply MGB Eclipse® Probes for use as a component in human in vitro diagnostic tests.
As a result of improved knowledge and understanding of the human genome, quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) has become an increasingly important tool for in vitro diagnostics and patient management. The gold standard 5′ nuclease qPCR assay uses oligonucleotide probes that have three critical features: fluorescent reporter dyes, quenchers for these dyes, and a minor groove binder. qPCR is a sensitive method for detecting abnorma...
Strategic partnership with GraysOnline opens new opportunities in fast-growing markets
Leading global asset management specialist, EquipNet Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA), has announced an expansion in the Australian and South East Asia markets through a new strategic alliance with GraysOnline. The agreement combines EquipNet’s strengths as the world’s leading asset management company for laboratory, production and packaging equipment in the pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, food, beverage, and...
The WALDNER Group, with its headquarters in Wangen, and Hohenloher Spezialmöbelwerke have joined forces on the market for laboratory furniture and furniture for scientific classrooms.
Both corporations can look back on a tradition of more than 100 years. Waldner (approx. 1100 employees) is regarded as the market leader in the field of laboratory furniture. Furthermore WALDNER also has other successful divisions of long standing – technical education facilities, plants for preparation and filling of food, as well as isolators and containment for the pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnological industries...
Agreement gives Horizon exclusive right to supply services on Adarza’s multiplex label-free immunoassay technology
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD), a leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalized medicines, and Adarza BioSystems, Inc., a next generation innovator in label-free, multiplex assays, announced today that they have entered into an exclusive licensing and supply agreement. The agreement gives Horizon the exclusive right to supply services on...
FLIR Systems, the global leader in thermal imaging, has announced its 15th Annual InfraMation Conference to be held May 12-15 2015 in Nashville, Tenneesee (USA).
The InfraMation Conference is widely acknowledged as a leading international event for attendees to learn about the latest thermal imaging techniques and applications, and network with many hundreds of industry colleagues. This conference is for thermographers, regardless of which camera system they might use, or those just interested in the latest new applications of the technology. InfraMation 2015 will feature leading industry...
On Monday 10th November, Dame Janet Trotter, Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire, presented Renishaw with its seventeenth Queen's Award.
This prestigious award was granted for the continuous development of the company's inVia Raman microscope, with ultra-fast Raman imaging, which enables the rapid generation of high definition 2D and 3D chemical images for material analysis. This Queen's Award for Enterprise 2014, granted in the Innovations category, is particularly special, as it is the first to recognise Renishaw's achievements outside of the field of industrial metrology...
LGC has announced that its ISO17025 accreditation from the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) has been further extended to include steroids in its Occupational Drug Testing (ODT) suite of tests.
LGC is an international life sciences measurement and testing company with a specialism in testing for drugs of abuse. The ODT team was awarded ISO17025 accreditation for analysis of oral fluid in May 2014. Simon Hudson, Technical Director for the laboratory and managed services division of LGC commented, “We are proud to extend our ISO17025 accreditation for steroids in human urine samples. Having this further extension acknowledged by an...
Dr. David Clemmons, co-inventor of the technology and a highly reputable key opinion leader in endocrinology and metabolism, will collaborate on the drug optimization and development programs. Alizé Pharma III SAS, an Alizé Pharma group company specialized in the development of biopharmaceuticals to treat metabolic disorders and rare diseases, today announces that it has acquired exclusive worldwide rights to...
The new online chat facility allows website visitors to 'speak'' directly with Markes' experts, simply by typing their message into the on-screen widget. The live chat feature is staffed by Markes' team of thermal desorption and time-of-flight mass spectrometry specialists in the UK and USA, and enables website visitors to get a quick answer to any question they may have about Markes, its products, or their applications...
Recognition for major progress
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), a leading provider of research tools to support translational genomics and the development of personalized medicines, today announced that its Bioproduction division has shipped its first commercially available engineered CHO cell line for use in manufacturing of therapeutic antibodies. Horizon’s innovative licensing model brings these cutting edge bioproduction cells within reach of...
Huber Kältemaschinenbau continues its international expansion. From this date, the expert for high precision thermoregulation headquartered in Offenburg, Germany will be represented in the USA by a new branch establishment. Under the name of "Huber USA Inc.", the new US affiliate will directly serve end users and dealers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Huber USA will be located in Cary, NC close to the Raleigh-Durham International...
Their diverse range, covering both standard and custom synthesis products, is now distributed in the UK by Cambio. With a strong emphasis on innovation and research in the field of polymer development, supported by a highly skilled team of chemists at the company’s R&D facility in Quebec, Canada, Matrix Innovation is ready to meet your custom needs. Matrix Innovation manufactures several hundred chemical products for research at...
With a commitment to providing high quality products that aid laboratories in their efforts to optimise efficiency and workflow, Lab M has long been recognised for its comprehensive portfolio of dehydrated culture media (DCM). Now a number of these formulations are available as Pinnacle™ pre-poured plates and µPREP™ ready-to-reconstitute bags for ease of use in any laboratory. Lab M’s µPREP™ ‘just-add-water’ range of...
ATCC, the premier global biological materials resource and standards organization, and LGC, a leading global producer and distributor of reference materials and proficiency testing (PT) programs, announce a new agreement to provide high-quality proficiency testing programs supporting the food, beverage, animal feed, and pharmaceutical quality control markets in the United States. As part of its ongoing mission to acquire, authenticate, preserve, develop...
The app, available for free download in the App Store for iOS and Android devices and the Kindle Fire, serves as a valuable resource tool before, during and after the event. It acts as an all-inclusive real-time show guide containing details on exhibiting companies, technical sessions, Conferee Networking sessions and short courses. The Pittcon mobile conference app was developed by ATIV Software and is built on the EventPilot meeting...
Media in Lab M’s µPrep™ range are supplied ready-to-reconstitute in 20 litre bags. They are designed primarily for high throughput laboratories where speed, convenience, reliability and cost-effectiveness are high priorities. “Since we launched µPrep™ Half Fraser Broth ISO (+FAC) in July 2014, customers have been very clear that simple reconstitution with no mess and no autoclaving is a significant factor in their choice of media format...
The Morphologi G3-ID, which is sold and supported in Australia by ATA Scientific, combines automated particle imaging with Raman spectroscopy to deliver particle size, morphology and chemical identification of particles within a dispersion. The technique is helping users to better understand the composition and behavior of natural particles within the environment and is generating substantial cost and efficiency savings in areas that...
Heading up this new organization is Dr Stefan Kaemmer who has been appointed General Manager of US Operations. Respected German technology leaders, JPK Instruments, are pleased to announce the opening of the first USA-based offices. With more than twelve years supplying nanoscale solutions worldwide for researchers in the bio, life and materials sciences, JPK is to open their offices in Southern California to support users across the...
The agreement is open to SUPC, HEPCW, LUPC, NEUPC and NWUPC members and provides preferential terms for a wide range of quality laboratory consumables. Details of the products and prices available are covered in the Alpha Laboratories IRLA Buyer’s Guide. This can be obtained in glossy hard copy or electronic e-catalogue format, on request at www.alphalabs.co.uk/irla...
Nosopharm, a company devoted to the research and development of new anti-infective drugs, today announces the appointment of four international experts to its scientific advisory board. These appointments reflect a new phase of development for its novel antibiotic class called Odilorhabdins. The members of the scientific advisory board will aid in the selection of a clinical candidate. This will be the first-generation Odilorhabdin derived from the...
As a result of improved knowledge and understanding of the human genome, quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) has become an increasingly important tool for in vitro diagnostics and patient management. The gold standard 5′ nuclease qPCR assay uses oligonucleotide probes that have three critical features: fluorescent reporter dyes, quenchers for these dyes, and a minor groove binder. qPCR is a sensitive method for detecting abnorma...
Leading global asset management specialist, EquipNet Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA), has announced an expansion in the Australian and South East Asia markets through a new strategic alliance with GraysOnline. The agreement combines EquipNet’s strengths as the world’s leading asset management company for laboratory, production and packaging equipment in the pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, food, beverage, and...
Both corporations can look back on a tradition of more than 100 years. Waldner (approx. 1100 employees) is regarded as the market leader in the field of laboratory furniture. Furthermore WALDNER also has other successful divisions of long standing – technical education facilities, plants for preparation and filling of food, as well as isolators and containment for the pharmaceutical, chemical and biotechnological industries...
The InfraMation Conference is widely acknowledged as a leading international event for attendees to learn about the latest thermal imaging techniques and applications, and network with many hundreds of industry colleagues. This conference is for thermographers, regardless of which camera system they might use, or those just interested in the latest new applications of the technology. InfraMation 2015 will feature leading industry...
This prestigious award was granted for the continuous development of the company's inVia Raman microscope, with ultra-fast Raman imaging, which enables the rapid generation of high definition 2D and 3D chemical images for material analysis. This Queen's Award for Enterprise 2014, granted in the Innovations category, is particularly special, as it is the first to recognise Renishaw's achievements outside of the field of industrial metrology...
LGC is an international life sciences measurement and testing company with a specialism in testing for drugs of abuse. The ODT team was awarded ISO17025 accreditation for analysis of oral fluid in May 2014. Simon Hudson, Technical Director for the laboratory and managed services division of LGC commented, “We are proud to extend our ISO17025 accreditation for steroids in human urine samples. Having this further extension acknowledged by an...