Company Profiles
Acorn Instrument LLC
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: Acorn Instrument specializes in the design and development of measurement instrumentation for Laboratory Automation and provides custom engineering services for clients in the Biopharmaceutical industry. Acorn Instrument manufactures devices such as sensor based AutoFill Reservoirs for use on automated Liquid Handlers. 2031 Saint Francis Way
San Carlos, CA 94070 Affymetrix
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: Affymetrix (AFFX) is a pioneer in creating breakthrough tools that are driving the genomic revolution. The vision, innovation, and devotion of Affymetrix employees help us empower scientists around the world to alleviate human suffering. It is not just the sheer power of GeneChip® technology that inspires us; it is the potential for it to help people.
The culture at Affymetrix is based on core values of innovation, excellence and integrity. Our employees create a highly energized, team-oriented work environment. We are an employer committed to supporting the aspirations and achievements of our employees and offer our employees a comprehensive, competitive program of benefits and a corporate culture based on core values of innovation, excellence and integrity. 3420 Central Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95051 Applied Biosystems, Inc
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: Applied Biosystems has demonstrated its position as a technology leader and driving force in the changing dynamics of the life science marketplace. The Applied Biosystems business is focused on the following markets: basic research, commercial research (pharmaceutical and biotechnology) and standardized testing, including forensic human identification, paternity testing and food testing. The company has an installed base of approximately 180,000 instrument systems in nearly 100 countries.
Basic research includes work at university, government and other non-profit institutions that focus on uncovering the basic laws of nature and understanding human disease. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies use Applied Biosystems' products to discover and develop new drugs more effectively. Standardized testing customers require systems that produce precise results from a high volume of automated tests.
101 Lincoln Centre Drive
Foster City, CA 94404 BIOCIUS Life Sciences
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: BIOCIUS Life Sciences, named from the Greek word “BIO” (life) and the Latin word “OCIUS” (faster), provides the biopharmaceutical industry with faster answers: Products and services committed to speed and accuracy to help exceed business goals. The RapidFire® platform technology feeds samples directly to the mass spectrometer, requiring no labels or surrogates, helping to eliminate the bottleneck of samples that require screening in the drug discovery process. RapidFire Mass Spectrometry is routinely used in many applications including the high-throughput screening of previously intractable drug targets and in vitro ADME assays. BIOCIUS offers RapidFire instrumentation as well as contract research services for lead discovery and in vitro ADME applications. Our expert scientists work closely with our collaborators to maximize research success.
10P Gill Street
Woburn, MA 01801 BioMicroLab
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: BioMicroLab offers robotic systems, quality control systems, and productivity tools for benchtop sample and compound management. BioMicroLab’s robotic instruments are complete systems for: (1) volume inventory management (2) sorting and weighing of vials and test tubes, and (3) 2D bar code decoding. BioMicroLab's robotic platforms are compatible with SBS standards to allow integration with other HTS oriented laboratory systems. 2500-A Dean Lesher Drive
Concord, CA 94520 BMG LABTECH
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: BMG LABTECH is a leading developer and global manufacturer of microplate reader instrumentation with a wide range of measurement methods. Microplate readers are used in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, as well as in academic research establishments, for both basic research analysis and High Throughput Screening. BMG LABTECH focuses solely on microplate readers and offers the most diverse selection of optical detection systems in conjunction with integrated liquid handling equipment. 13000 Weston Parkway
Suite 109
Cary, NC 27513 California MedTech, LLC.
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: California MedTech (previously Paragon Medsystems) is California’s leading resource for complex medical device design, development and manufacturing services. We take on tough challenges and deliver creative, affordable solutions quickly and efficiently. 1455 Adams Street
Menlo Park, CA 94025 Caliper Life Sciences
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: Company Overview
Products that Address Critical Applications
Caliper Life Sciences combines microfluidics, liquid handling and laboratory automation to deliver unique research tools for today’s Drug Discovery and Development and Genomics and Proteomics laboratories. We manufacture and sell products such as the LabChip 3000 Drug Discovery system, Caliper Sciclone liquid handler, Staccato Assay Workstations, and the LabChip 90 Automated Electrophoresis system. Each of these products addresses critical applications within the life sciences industry; each of these applications is on the critical path to improving human health.
605 Fairchild Drive
Mountain View, CA 94043-0500 Corning Life Sciences
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: Corning Life Sciences is the leader in high-quality laboratory products. Our Brands include: Corning, Costar, Axygen, Pyrex and Sorenson.
Products include, Plates in 96, 384 and 1536 well formats. We have many surfaces such as NBS, UltraLow and CellBind.
We believe in Innovation, Quality and Service. 900 Chelmsford
Tower 2, 4th Floor
Lowell, MA 01851 Covance Inc
Company type: Biotech Service Provider (not primarily developing new therapeutics) Profile: Covance offers drug development services to its clients around the world. We provide global nonclinical and clinical development and commercial service offerings delivered through our industry-leading nonclinical testing services, the world's largest central laboratory network, and a global team of clinical trial professionals. 401 Terry Avenue N
Seattle, WA 98109 Definiens Inc.
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: Definiens is the leading provider of Enterprise Image Intelligence solutions. Leading corporations are deploying Definiens’ solutions across their organizations to automate their image-intensive business processes. Definiens Cognition Network Technology is a breakthrough approach to extract information from images based on knowledge and context. 101 Federal Street - Suite 1900
Boston, MA 02110 Dynamic Solutions
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: As a customer-driven, solutions-focused company, Dynamic Solutions does more than just sell quality automation equipment; we provide value by identifying and supplying automation solutions to improve our customers’ profitability and market share.
It is our belief that our exceptional service and support will create long term and mutually beneficial relationships with our clientele. Our first responsibility is to serve our customers with practical yet innovative solutions to their automation challenges. We follow the philosophy that a technically knowledgeable and highly motivated staff will create the best solutions for our customers’ applications.
2000 Wyatt Drive
Suite 8
Santa Clara, CA 95054 ForteBio
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: ForteBio provides a novel, label-free technology to measure biomolecular interactions in real time. Its Octet System uses BioLayer Interferometry (BLI) to measure affinity, kinetics or concentration in crude or purified samples. By measuring in real time directly in the microplate, Octet’s analytical capabilities provide greater value in applications where existing methods such as HPLC, ELISA, and surface plasmon resonance have limitations in throughput, performance, and cost.
ForteBio’s Octet System has been designed to address the need to accelerate the characterization and production of antibody and protein therapeutics in a simple, label-free, and information-rich format. Octet uses biosensors that are optically coated with surface chemistries to report quantitation or kinetic analysis directly in a 96-well plate without fluidics, streamlining the workflow of monitoring antibodies in development or production from bioreactors.
1360 Willow Road Suite 205
Menlo Park, CA 94025 Hamilton Robotics Company type: Automation Integrator Profile: Hamilton Robotics is dedicated to the design and manufacture of automated liquid handling workstations. We offer several types of workstations for direct sale and OEM. Key to our products are our air displacement pipetting and monitoring technology as well as the software controlling our systems. We believe every laboratory automation project is unique. Our workstations and software serve as a high precision and flexible base upon which to provide automated solutions. To this end we employ teams of highly skilled and experienced application and hardware customization specialists around the world to provide our customers with unique solutions to automate their assays successfully and within budget. Please explore our products and contact us to discuss your automated liquid handling needs further. 4970 Energy Way
Reno, NV 89520 Labcyte Inc.
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: Labcyte Inc. uses sound to move liquids. This green technology provides significantly better analytical results while saving money.
The ‘touchless’ technology provides dramatically better answers by eliminating pipette tips and the adsorption of compounds during transfer, while saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in decreased consumables. Accuracy is maintained from first drop through last for a wide variety of fluids, including many considered intractable by other techniques. The technology is coupled with our Deerac™ instruments to make Labcyte a leader in liquid handling. Together with the Deerac systems, the award-winning Echo liquid handlers are used in all of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, as well as in leading academic and research institutions worldwide.
Labcyte technologies have broad applications including the fields of compound management, genomics, proteomics, particle manufacturing, encapsulation, imaging mass spectrometry, and live-cell transfer.
Labcyte is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with offices in Dublin, Ireland and has 39 U.S., 7 European and two Japanese patents and additional U.S. and international filings.
For more information, visit www.labcyte.com .
1190 Borregas Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089 MDS Sciex
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: MDS has more than 9,000 highly skilled people in 27 countries. We provide a diverse range of superior products and services to increase our customers’ speed, precision and productivity in the drug development and disease diagnosis processes.
We are a global, values-driven health and life sciences company, recognized for our reliability and collaborative relationships as we help create better outcomes in the treatment of disease.
1170 Veterans Blvd
San Francisco, CA 94080 Mettler Toledo
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: METTLER TOLEDO specializes in the area of precision instruments for professional use. In addition to a wide product array, we offer the most comprehensive range of services in our industry on a global level. With more than 10,000 employees, we generate annual sales of over USD 1 billion. Mettler-Toledo International Inc. has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 1997. 1900 Polaris Pkwy
Columbus, OH 43240 Microsonic Systems
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: Microsonics uses ultrasonic energy to isothermally thaw, re-solubilize compounds, mix assay reagents and cells and suspend beads and magnetic particles. Our first commercial product, the HENDRIX SM100 works with 96, 384 and 1536 well microplates, assisting in Compound Management, HTS and high content screening. 76 Bonaventura Drive
San Jose, CA 95134 Munyak Engineering
Company type: Automation Integrator Profile: Edward Munyak,PE is a professional chemical engineer with over ten years of experience in chemical reactor and laboratory automation product development. His expertise covers the full range of product development from feasibility and prototyping through validation testing and manufacturing quality assurance. Whether creating his own designs or consulting on yours, Munyak Engineering is dedicated to producing reliable, innovative, and cost effective solutions for your chemical automation needs. 121 Rincon St, Suite 3
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 SRU Biosystems Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: SRU Biosystems is a global provider of novel, label-free, detection tools used in biomedical research and pharmaceutical drug discovery. SRU’s patented label-free BIND® technology rapidly analyzes biomolecular interactions of cells, proteins, genomic materials, peptides, antibodies or small molecule compound libraries against a wide range of cellular and biochemical targets. SRU’s portfolio includes a family of BIND readers to meet from low to ultra high throughput assay needs as well as a comprehensive line of BIND Biosensors with a range of surface coating for optimized biochemical and cellular assay results. BIND technology produces information-rich data and has been applied from target identification and assay development through high throughput screening and hit optimization in leading academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies. Key applications include GPCRs, endogenous receptor activation, ligand-gated ion channels, cell adhesion, cytotoxicity, antibody characterization and protein-protein binding. For more information about SRU Biosystems or its label-free BIND technology please visit www.srubiosystems.com. 14-A Gill Street
Woburn, MA 01801 Symyx Technologies, Inc.
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: Symyx develops and applies high-throughput research and software technologies to increase R&D productivity for customers in the chemical, energy, pharmaceutical, electronic and other industries. Symyx performs research for customers using propriety technologies to discover innovative materials, sells automated high-throughput instrumentation for use in customers’ R&D, and licenses software, sensors, discovered materials and intellectual property. The proprietary methods, discoveries and technologies have enabled the company to build an intellectual property portfolio consisting of over 260 issued patents and over 360 patent applications on file worldwide.
The company is headquartered near San Jose, CA, but has offices around the country. It is a public company traded on NASDAQ under the symbol SMMX.
Symyx offers an exceptional work environment for our talented and diverse workforce, along with excellent job benefits including comprehensive medical and dental coverage, an onsite cafeteria and a health club membership. This is why Symyx has been ranked as one of the top 50 Best Places to Work in the San Francisco/San Jose area by the San Francisco Business Times and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal.
To learn more go to the company Web page at: www.symyx.com.
3100 Central Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95051 Tecan US
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: Tecan is a leading global player in the Life Sciences supply industry that specializes in solutions enabling the discovery of pharmaceutical substances, as well as for genomics, proteomics, and diagnostics. Clients include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities and laboratories. In 2005 REMP became part of the Tecan Group.
4022 Stirrup Creek Drive
Suite 310
Durham, NC 27703 Velocity11
Company type: Tool Provider (instrumentation, automation, consumables, reagents or software for Pharma/Biotech) Profile: Velocity11 is dedicated to its mission of accelerating the cure of human disease by enabling life science researchers with innovative automation solutions.
Our rapid growth in earning business from the most respected names in pharmaceutical, biotech, and genomic research is an outcome of listening carefully to our customers and delivering innovative technologies, integrated systems, and stand-alone tools that enable and enhance their critical processes and protocols. From our origins at Incyte Pharmaceuticals to our current organization with an experienced management team and board, we maintain an energetic, passionate, and innovative customer focus.
At Velocity11, we are committed to providing our customers with complete solutions that solve their problems and dramatically enhance their productivity. It happens that we also like to make those solutions compact, flexible, user friendly, and very fast. From our roots in the lab, coupled with advanced multidisciplinary teams in leading technology areas — we are improving processes and pushing technologies forward. The needs of the life science automation marketplace dictate the need for highly configurable automation systems, bench-top instrumentation, consumables, and first-class service. Velocity11 is defining this leading-edge innovation.
Velocity11 broadly covers the life science automation market, with a concentration in drug discovery, genomics, and proteomics applications. Through direct distribution, value added reseller channels, and a multi-continent customer service, applications, and support organization, Velocity11 delivers an outstanding user experience to our customers globally.
3565 Haven Ave.
Santa Clara, CA 94025
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