Luminex Corporation Completes Acquisition of MilliporeSigma's Flow Cytometry Portfolio

AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Luminex Corporation (NASDAQ: LMNX) today announced that the company has completed its previously announced acquisition of MilliporeSigma’s flow cytometry portfolio for $75 million in combined stock, asset and inventory purchases. The acquisition is expected to contribute $40 million to $50 million in revenue to Luminex in 2019. “We are pleased... Read more

MilliporeSigma Wins Two R&D 100 Awards for Innovation in 2018

27 NOV 2018 | DARMSTADT, GERMANY MilliporeSigma’s proxy-CRISPR wins Special Recognition Market Disruptor — Products award Burlington, Massachusetts, November 27, 2018 – MilliporeSigma today announced that it has won two R&D 100 Awards. The 56th annual R&D 100 Awards program, honoring the 100 most innovative and significant technologies introduced in the past year, recognized MilliporeSigma for its BioReliance® Viral and Gene Therapy Assay... Read more

MilliporeSigma Announces Winners of 2018 Life Science Awards

News Release November 19, 2018 Your Contact: Karen Tiano +1 978 495 0093 Twelve student finalists awarded in three fields: bioseparations, food & beverage safety and tumor biology Grand prize winners Yu Cai, University of Colorado; Yanqi Qu, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Jun Ho Lee, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, each awarded... Read more

MilliporeSigma Launches BioContinuum™ Platform for Next-Generation Process Improvements

News Release November 5, 2018 Your Contact: Karen Tiano +1 978 495 0093 New BioContinuum™ Platform provides benefits now, with a mind to continuous process of the future Expanded Pellicon® Single-Pass Tangential Flow Filtration to intensify operations in the purification of therapeutic proteins Burlington, Massachusetts, November 5, 2018 — MilliporeSigma today launched its new BioContinuum™ Platform to advance... Read more

MilliporeSigma Announces Agreement to Sell Amnis® Flow Cytometry and Guava® Technologies Businesses to Luminex Corporation

All associated reagents under these brands included in the deal Strategic agreement allows Luminex to increase footprint in multi-billion-dollar flow cytometry market Deal expected to close at end of 2018 Burlington, Massachusetts, October 18, 2018 — MilliporeSigma today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to sell its Flow Cytometry unit to Luminex Corporation for $75... Read more

MilliporeSigma Opens M Lab™ Collaboration Center in São Paulo, Brazil

News Release October 4, 2018 Your Contact: Karen Tiano +1 978 495 0093 New collaboration center to provide support from pre-clinical through full-scale production in a non-GMP environment Hands-on customer access to MilliporeSigma’s product portfolio, technical expertise Burlington, Massachusetts, October 4, 2018 — MilliporeSigma today officially opened a state-of-the-art M Lab™ Collaboration Center in Brazil, serving the Latin... Read more

MilliporeSigma Announces $3,000 Grand Prize Winner of Alfred R. Bader Award for Student Innovation

News Release October 2, 2018 Your Contact: Karen Tiano +1 978 495 0093 Four graduate student chemists awarded for innovation in synthetic organic chemistry Tim Gatzenmeier, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, selected for grand prize Burlington, Massachusetts, October 2, 2018 — MilliporeSigma recognized four graduate students for their research and innovations in synthetic organic chemistry as part of... Read more

MilliporeSigma Makes Major Investment in New Singapore Laboratory

Burlington, Massachusetts, September 18, 2018 – MilliporeSigma today announced the opening of a new 3,800-square-meter laboratory in Singapore. 18 SEP 2018 | BURLINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA First GMP BioReliance® biosafety testing lab in Asia Pacific offering critical testing services to bring life-changing therapies to market Extensive range of upstream and downstream bioprocessing solutions through M Lab™... Read more

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Awarded Australian CRISPR Nickase Patent for Foundational Genome-Editing Technology

Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, today announced that the Australian Patent Office has allowed the company’s patent application for the use of paired CRISPR nickases. 15 AUG 2018 | DARMSTADT, GERMANY Patent covers paired Cas9 nickase technology to reduce off-target effects, advance gene therapy and research Expands company’s foundational CRISPR cutting and integration IP necessary to correct genetic... Read more

MilliporeSigma and InnoCore Pharmaceuticals to Improve Patient Compliance with New Drug Delivery Technology

News Release July 26, 2018 Your Contact: Karen Tiano +1 978 495 0093 Platform for creating sustained release formulations for virtually any class of biological API Eliminates pharmaceutical development hurdles MilliporeSigma’s global footprint makes InnoCore’s proprietary SynBiosys® drug delivery technology platform more widely available Burlington, Massachusetts, July 26, 2018 — MilliporeSigma and InnoCore Pharmaceuticals; Groningen, Netherlands, have... Read more