Press releases 2010
17 | 11 | 10
GATC Biotech opens third sequencing laboratory in Europe
Facilities will be situated in Düsseldorf, Germany
GATC Biotech’s new sequencing laboratory will be their second in Germany and will be located in the Life Science Center Düsseldorf. Through the new facilities, scientists from Northern Germany and adjacent countries will benefit from GATC Biotech’s...
02 | 11 | 10
GATC subsidiary LifeCodexx appoints Head of Commercial Operations
Former Brahms sales manager boosts LifeCodexx team
LifeCodexx AG announces that Dr. Martin Burow, a proven expert in the field of prenatal diagnostics, has joined its team as Head of Commercial Operations. www.lifecodexx.com/en/news.html
24 | 09 | 10
GATC Biotech to sequence 100,000 human genomes by 2014
PacBio RS to support studies on rare variant, and structural variations and methylation patterns
Within the next four years GATC Biotech plans to analyse 100,000 human genomes in particular for the pharmaceutical and diagnostic industry as well as for academic research. This will be realised by applying Illumina’s...
22 | 09 | 10
GATC Biotech to be First European Service Provider for the PacBio RS
Pacific Biosciences single molecule, real-time sequencer RS expected to be installed in Konstanz in early 2011
GATC Biotech announced today that it has agreed to purchase the PacBio RS platform, a single molecule, real-time (SMRT™) sequencing technology. The new PacBio RS will be the fifth sequencing technology for...
07 | 07 | 10
GATC Biotech purchases second Illumina HiSeq 2000
GATC Biotech today announced the acquisition of an additional Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencing platform. The new system will be ready for production within July, just a few months after the first system has been successfully taken into operation. Due to the high cost-effectiveness and sequencing output the...
18 | 05 | 10
GATC Biotech sequences pediatric brain tumors for the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC)
In collaboration with the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) / PedBrainTumor Project funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research and German Cancer Aid
GATC Biotech to sequence samples from brain tumors in children for the world’s largest cancer research project. The aim of the German <link...
28 | 04 | 10
GATC subsidiary LifeCodexx AG develops tests for prenatal diagnostics
Financing supported by public funding / former General Manager of Cogenics appointed as CEO
LifeCodexx AG has started operational research and development work on clinically validated diagnostic tests by using Next Generation Sequencing technologies. The work currently focuses...
04 | 03 | 10
BioLago paves the way for a new project for breast cancer therapy
German-Austrian cooperation within the life science network at Lake Constance | Hope for breast cancer patients – under the leadership of the Vorarlberg Institute for Vascular Investigation and Treatment (VIVIT), a cross border cooperation is to start between hospitals and bioanalytical laboratories of...
21 | 01 | 10
GATC Biotech orders Europe’s first HiSeq 2000 for commercial use
Illumina’s latest sequencing system to be installed in the Constance laboratories
GATC Biotech today announced the purchase of Illumina’s new HiSeq 2000 sequencing platform, which has officially been launched last week. This latest acquisition will further strengthen GATC Biotech’s current fleet of three GA IIx....
