SOLVO Biotechnology and tebu-bio announce Distribution and Service Representation Agreement
September 03, 2007
Budapest, Hungary - Le Perray-en-Yvelines, France; 4th September, 2007 - SOLVO Biotechnology and tebu-bio announced that they have formed a partnership to distribute and represent SOLVO's leading Membrane Transporter Assay Products and Services in the Europe. "Membrane transporters play a key role in the Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion of drugs at the most important pharmacological barriers as well as in transporter mediated toxicity and drug-drug interactions" explained Gábor Heltovics, SOLVO's Business Development Director. "SOLVO's leading assay systems are designed to detect interaction of compounds with a wide array of membrane transporter proteins. We are very excited about the opportunity to work with tebu-bio. This partnership will enhance the availability of our products and services to many new customers. Whilst we continue to serve European clients directly, the excellent synergy between our companies will deliver more choice and significant added value to scientists throughout Europe." "tebu-bio is a leading European supplier of products in Life Sciences from target identification to ADME-Tox and DMPK" said Didier Lecommandeur, tebu-bio VP Business Development. "Our group is continuously expanding its products and services portfolio in order to answer the rapidly changing needs of the scientific community. Our collaboration with SOLVO Biotechnology brings our clients a unique access to a full range of membrane transporter technologies. It allows them to further characterize their compounds of interest while matching our standards in terms of quality and customer satisfaction." About SOLVO Biotechnology: SOLVO Biotechnology - "The Transporter Company" has been the pioneer and the leader in the commercialization of Membrane Transporter technologies, including therapeutics, diagnostics and drug discovery assays. The company offers drug discovery products and services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and consumer goods industries, relevant to many therapeutic areas and product categories. SOLVO Biotechnology provides a number of solutions for membrane transporter assays to be used in drug discovery and development: o Membrane Preparations - to be used for ATPase Assay and Vesicular Transport Assay (indirect and direct uptake) measurements; o Whole cell and Monolayer Assays; o In vivo animal testing; o Comprehensive Contract Screening Services; o Sublicense for the Calcein Assay; o Custom-Made Expression and Screening Systems. SOLVO Biotechnology has an extensive development pipeline that is expected to create a unique service platform that integrates, correlates and harmonizes DMPK and ADME-Tox in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo research systems to evaluate the membrane transporter profiles of drug candidates at various pharmacological barriers and transporter mediated drug-drug interactions. About tebu-bio: tebu-bio aims to help European life scientists succeed in their work by supplying the most comprehensive range of innovative and convenient products suited to their needs. Our customers are involved in target discovery, target validation, assay development, bio-molecular & secondary screenings, bio-production and ADME-Tox studies. We have selected for the European research community more than 450,000 products described directly on our one-stop-shopping website. Daily updated, our online catalogue gives access to a broad choice of reagents (more than 60,000 antibodies, 300 cytokines & growth factors and 700 active enzymes, 20 stable pre-silenced human cell lines) from the most popular world-wide suppliers. Products are shipped all over Europe from our centralized warehouse and reach researcher's bench within 24 hours. Recognised as a "Young Innovative Company", our R&D laboratory is specialized in molecular biology and in cellular biology for lab services. We recently have increased our production capacities for recombinant protein production, analysis and purification from E.coli, mammalian cells (CHO, HEK, COS-7) and a unique patented virus-free stable expression in insect cells. Our laboratory also provide validated gene reporter assays to help researcher characterize further their compounds of interest (by example the characterization of in vitro identification of subtype-selective PPAR ligands) or robust gene profiling tools for expression analysis (protein-arrays, macro or qPCR-arrays). More information at www.tebu-bio.com: the smarter way to buy research products in Europe.Next entry: SOLVO and KRISHGEN BioSystems announce Distribution and Service Representation Agreement
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