Promega
The Promega Corporation, located in Fitchburg in Madison, United States, manufactures products and system solutions for gene, protein and cell analysis and drug discovery.
- 3.1 Genomics
- 3.2 Genetic identity and forensics
- 3.3 Proteomics
- 3.4 Cellular analysis and drug development
- 3.5 Integrated Platforms
History
The company was founded in 1978 under the name " Biotec " in Madison, Wisconsin, as a provider of restriction enzymes by Bill Linton. In 1983, the name Promega Biotec and 1987 finally changed in Promega. The company offers claims to present more than 2500 products for the life science area. It is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, USA and has 15 sales offices and 50 distributors worldwide. In total, Promega Corp.. more than 1,200 employees.
Production facilities are located in San Luis Obispo, California (USA), Shanghai ( China) and Seoul ( South Korea). The Promega Corp.. founded in 1984, the first biotechnology joint venture in China ( "Sino - American Biotechnology Co. "). Customers from Promega, as stated by research institutes and centers, universities, pharmaceutical and biotechnology research companies, service laboratories and government agencies. The products are used for basic as well as applied research, forensics and industrial / pharmaceutical research.
In 2008 the company had 145 U.S. patents and several more abroad. The company develops its own intellectual property and research in collaboration with academic institutions, including together with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Tool Subscription Program. 86 % of its products, the company produces itself.
The company has developed a storage system that uses radio frequency identification technology to extinguish products from the system. The room temperature and freezers are available directly at the customer. The development led to the creation and spin-off of the company " Terso Solution", that designs these storage units and produces.
In August 2009, Promega took over the manufacturer of luminescence and fluorescence instruments " Turner Biosystems ".
European sales offices
Germany
In 1997, the " Promega GmbH" as a subsidiary of Promega Corp. was. founded in Mannheim. With more than 70 employees, it is responsible for the distribution of the Promega Group's products in Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe. In addition to a service center has the Mannheim location with the Promega Corp.. EURO stroke their own stocks of the U.S. parent company, which is responsible for the distribution of the Group's products in Europe. The Promega GmbH writes annually from the competition "The main thing Biology " for journalists regional media and scientists.
France
Was founded in 1992, the French branch in Charbonnières- les- Bains, near Lyon. There, about 30 people are employed. The office is responsible for sales in France, Greece, Cyprus, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. In 2009 there was the " EuroLab " opened, a development and training laboratory for scientists and Promega employees from all over Europe.
Great Britain
The UK office was opened in 1989 in South Hamptoner Science Park. 30 members of staff attend to customers in the UK, Ireland and South Africa.
Italy
The Italian branch was 1998 out of the Distributor " MMedical " and employs 19 employees.
Netherlands
The Promega Corp.. founded the first European settlement in 1984 in Leiden, Netherlands. The office serves clients in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
Switzerland
Promega AG was founded in Switzerland in 1991 under the name Catalys AG. As a subsidiary of Promega Corp.. offers the Swiss office in Dübendorf addition and complementary to products from Promega Corp.. also laboratory and analytical equipment and consumables of Serva GmbH, Molecular BioProducts and Thermo Scientific Company at. Promega AG employs 16 people.
Sweden
The Promega Biotech AB serves customers in Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Estonia and through distributors in Finland and Norway. The branch was opened in early 2008 and is located in Nacka in Stockholm.
Spain
The Spanish branch, Promega Biotech Ibérica, SL, being in January 2005. At the office in Alcobendas, a town north of Madrid, 17 employees serve customers in Spain and Portugal. In 2008, the office of the city Alcobendas for the reconciliation of work and family life and equal treatment of employees was honored.
Products and technologies
The product portfolio of the company includes individual components such as enzymes, but also complete analysis and sample preparation systems.
Genomics
The company offers in Genomics of products for genomic research. Its portfolio ranges from complete cloning, luciferase reporter assays, amplification products to the products from the founding period as restriction and modifying enzymes. This includes the GoTaq polymerase and buffer family and the quantitative PCR system Plexor.
Genetic identity and forensics
Promega Corp.. is one of two main suppliers of systems for determining the genetic identity based on short tandem repeat ( STR ) DNA analysis. Promega offered to the first company kits for STR analysis of individual loci. Together with Applied Biosystems Promega helped the FBI and other forensic laboratories in the choice of the main loci for the COmbined DNA Index System ( CODIS ), is investigated by the forensic DNA in North America. In Europe, Promega offers since October 2009, the first company analysis systems that meet the new European gene database standards.
Proteomics
The company has been offering since 1992 cell-free protein synthesis systems and since then expands the portfolio. The company also offers products for protein sequencing by mass spectrometry.
Cellular analysis and drug development
Promega products developed since 1990, based on the bioluminescent technology. The areas of application for the detection of bioluminescence reporter gene assays are, cell viability, apoptosis, cytochrome P450, kinases, proteases and RNA interference. The current triplex analysis system uses bioluminescence and fluorescence for detection of cell viability, cytotoxicity and apoptosis in a single assay.
Integrated platforms
The bioluminescence assay, DNA and RNA purification products and HaloTag technologies can be integrated into automated high-throughput systems from other companies. GloMax the luminometer are preinstalled protocols that multiplex bioluminescence assay can be performed. The luminometer with injection system can be used with dual reporter assays such as the dual luciferase assay. The company sells its own Maxwell 16 system, as laptop large automated nucleic acid isolation system for diagnostic laboratories and low -throughput research
Web link / sources
- Http://www.promega.com