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by Heather Hobbs
Alliance Points to Broader Market Penetration
Metrohm and Foss could see strengthening in respective key markets following an agreement positioning Metrohm as global distributor of Foss NIR instruments for the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and environmental sectors.
“Metrohm will extend its product offering beyond the company’s traditional focus on solutions for wet-chemistry analytical techniques thereby benefiting our customers with new possibilities both in laboratory and process analysis”, said Dr Christoph Fässler, CEO of Metrohm.
“The strategic alliance allows Foss to focus its NIR business on the Food & Agricultural industries that we have served for more than 50 years, while continuing our leading position within NIR technology – and making this technology available to a broader customer base,” said Torben Ladegaard, CEO of Foss.
Under the deal, Foss NIRSystems, Inc will become a division of Metrohm USA to be named Metrohm NIRSystems.
MORE INFO. 49 Herrera Joins Nanobiotix Supervisory Board
Oncology focussed nanomedicine company Nanobiotix has appointed Dr Alain Herrera to its Supervisory Board, succeeding Thierry Chopin and Isabelle Bou Antoun as part of a planned succession.
Dr Herrera has more than 25 years experience of the pharmaceutical industry where he was head of the Oncology business at Sanofi- Aventis for ten years.
He has also been Chairman of Chiron Therapeutics Europe, Managing Director at Pierre Fabre Oncology Laboratories and Head of the Oncology Platform at Roger Bellon. Now acting as a Hematologist Consultant at Antoine Beclere Hospital, he also offers consultation services.
Dr Alain Herrera
“Over recent years, Nanobiotix’s nanomedicine technology has repeatedly demonstrated its significant potential for optimising the efficacy of radiotherapy, a treatment currently used for about 60% of
Mainz and Kaiserslautern to Supply Technologies to Businesses
Two large-scale research projects in materials science and spintronics have been initiated at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the University of Kaiserslautern with the objective of promoting rapid transition from university research to industrial application in the Rhineland-Palinate region.
Both projects, STeP and TT-DINEMA, have a financial volume of more than €3.8 million and are receiving support through the "Wachstum durch Innovation" (Growth through Innovation) programme to the tune of some €2.37 million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the state agencies for science and commerce.
"The two projects will not only enable us to ensure that our universities remain at the cutting edge in the fields of materials science and spintronics in future, but will also make a very important contribution
to helping companies in Rhineland-Palatinate gain quick and easy access to innovation-relevant expertise in these high-tech areas," claimed Minister of Science, Doris Ahnen.
The Spintronic Technology Platform will promote the sustained build- up of technical competencies and support regional companies working in the spintronics sector. The platform has been specifically designed to bolster research into and the development of magnetic coating systems.
The aim of the TT-DINEMA ("Technologietransfer-Dienstleistung- szentrum für Neue Materialien or Technology Transfer Service Centre for New Materials) project is to establish an internationally competitive and independent service centre that can provide original new material and is likely to be of particular benefit to small and medium-sized companies, a report said.
cancer patients and a key component of the treatment strategy in curative setting. I'm both delighted and privileged to be able to play a part in helping Nanobiotix to deliver its objectives and to overcome the challenges that lie ahead. I look forward to working with the Nanobiotix team.”
Welcoming Dr Herrera, Laurent Levy, CEO of Nanobiotix said “Alain has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Nanobiotix over the past years, so he already has a thorough knowledge of its business and its technology.
We believe his skills and oncology leadership will assist us in fulfilling our strategic business objectives and to progress our international development. I would also like to thank Thierry Chopin and Isabelle Bou Antoun for the contribution they have made over the last years of service, helping to position Nanobiotix for a promising future."
MORE INFO. 51 Improving the Validity of HT Screening Assays
Research by North Carolina State University’s Dr. Nathaniel Hentz has shown that the volumes dispensed during drug screening programs can have a significant effect on the results obtained by assay screens. Any error made during these deliveries affects the concentration of the drug candidate and can lead to misleading data about compound activity being generated. Because DMSO has very different physical properties than water it behaves differently when handled by air- displacement pipettors or acoustic droplet ejectors, creating the need for a solvent-specific volume verification method.
Artel now has 100% DMSO-based Sample Solutions for use with the MVS®
Multichannel Verification System, that dramatically simplify the
volume verification process for users of sub-microliter liquid handling instruments, and will help them ensure the validity of their high- throughput screening (HTS) assay results.
Celgene’s Jason Haelewyn, a long-time user of the MVS, has been waiting expectantly for this product to be released: “Our laboratory has used the Artel MVS for the last five years to validate volume transfers for our automated liquid handling devices.
While the MVS has proved valuable as an easy to use aqueous liquid volume validation, most of our liquid transfers involve moving our
Artel displays new line of DMSO-based sample solutions at SLAS 2013
compound library which is solvated in DMSO. We are eagerly looking forward to the new DMSO-based Sample Solutions to make it even easier to validate the liquid transfers of DMSO solutions on our systems.”
The new solutions will be on display at Pittcon 2013 MORE INFO. 50
An industrially produced wafer with memory units resulting from the joint research projects at the universities of Mainz and Kaiserslautern. photo/source: Andrés Conca Parra
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