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BioWorld Industrial Biotechnology StatReport: Immediate and Comprehensive Industry Information
AGREEMENTS: Name Products Content of Agreement Date
DSM Genomatica's
SimPheny
licensing agreement 4/05
DSM implementation of expanded multi-year 6/06
Genomatica's metabolic collaboration and
modeling and simulation
technologies and
capabilities to help DSM
develop improved
biological processes for
product production
licensing agreement
Kyowa Hakko Genomatica's modeling licensing agreement 1/05
Kogyo Co. Ltd. and simulation platform
Unilever expansion of projects multi-year
8/06
started in 2005--use of collaboration and
Genomatica's metabolic
modeling and simulation
technologies to develop
ingredients to improve
Unilever products
licensing agreement
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: Computational systems biology
Medical and industrial biotechnology
PRODUCTS ON MARKET: SimPheny modeling platform
Gentra Systems Inc.
13355 10th Avenue N, Suite 120
Minneapolis MN 55441, US
Phone: (763) 543-0678; Fax: (763) 543-0699
Toll-free phone: (800) 866-3039
Web: www.gentra.com
E-mail: info@gentra.com
KEY PERSONNEL: Ruth M. Shuman, Ph.D.; CEO and President
Dennis Thalhuber; CFO
Robert Kwiatkowski, Ph.D.; VP, R&D
EMPLOYEES: 90 employees
HISTORY: Founded in 1988
Acquired by Qiagen NV (5/06)
STOCK-FINANCIAL HISTORY: Privately held
BUSINESS STRATEGY: Develop and market manual and automated nucleic acid purification
products that address the need for high quality nucleic acid, ease of use and
increased throughput for clinical and clinical research laboratories
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: Nucleic acids purification
PRODUCTS ON MARKET: DNA and RNA purification products including:
Puregene® DNA Purification Kit
Generation®
Purescript®
Autopure ls® DNA Purification Instrument
Versagene RNA
Versagene RNA purification Kit
Clotspin® De-clotting Tubes
Autotech Automated Nucleic Acid Purification Instrument
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