Dr. Holger Bengs Biotech Consulting - IonGate starts commercialization of SURFE2R in Asia

Frankfurt/Main, Germany, March 12, 2008. IonGate Biosciences is accretion its operations to bazaar the SURFE2R (SURFace Electrogenic Event Reader) Technology to the Japanese market. BRC - Bio Research Center Co. Ltd Nagoya, Japan and IonGate accordingly acquaint the proprietary address to automatically awning carriage proteins in top throughput at affairs in Japan, appropriately authoritative the technology accessible to the Asian market.

BRC is an accustomed accomplice able to accumulation Japan’s advisers with Life-Sciences innovations from about the world. The administration of SURFE2R will advice defended its position as a able provider of adult technologies.

IonGate has auspiciously launched SURFE2R Technology in both Europe and North America, and expects a growing appeal for the technology in these markets. As Japanese scientists accomplish added adult analysis in the acreage of film proteins, abnormally on carriage proteins, the addition of the SURFE2R Technology is awful anticipated. This is the aboriginal footfall for accretion attendance in the Asian bazaar in 2008, one of the arch growing biotech markets worldwide.

The flagship archetypal of the artefact family, SURFE2R Workstation 500, will be showcased at two accurate affairs in Japan in March.

IonGate in Japan:

March 17 – 19, 200881st Annual affair of the Japanese Pharmacological Society, Yokohama
(Booth No. 22)

March 25 – 27, 200885th Annual Meeting of the Physiological Society of Japan, Tokyo

Contact IonGate Biosciences
Wolfgang Lerch
Managing Director
IonGate Biosciences GmbH
Industriepark Hoechst / Building D528
65926 Frankfurt/Main
Germany

phone+49.69.305.85 400
fax +49.69.305.85 444
email info@iongate.net

Wolfgang Lerch
President
IonGate Biosciences Inc.
25 Bradley Drive
Westbrook, Maine 04092-2013
U.S.A.

phone +1.646.405.1026
fax +1.646.405.1027
email info@iongate.net


Contact BRC
Mitsuhiro Edamura
Bio Research Center Co. Ltd.
4F Yokota Bldg. 2-28-24 Izumi
Higashi-ku, Nagoya 461-0001
Japan

phone+81.52.932 6421
fax+81.52.932 6755
emailsales@brck.co.jp


Media inquiries
Dr. Holger Bengs
Biotech Consulting

phone +49.69.619.94 273
fax +49.69.619.94 249
email info@holgerbengs.de

About IonGate Biosciences GmbH

IonGate Biosciences GmbH develops, produces and markets avant-garde screening technologies to investigate transporters and is the common arch aggregation in this area.

Transporters are capital for the metabolic functions of the cell, advice proc¬essing in the absolute organism, and aswell play a axiological role in the bloom of humans. Due to their difficult beginning accessibility transporters are under¬represented in accepted biologic screening processes to date. For the aboriginal time, IonGate’s SURFE2R One and SURFE2R Workstation 500 accommodate awful absolute anatomic screening of transporters in higher-throughput and appropriately positions itself as a arch accomplice for the biologic industry. With its SURFE2R Workstation 500 IonGate has created a abstruse base for an automated and able-bodied analytic technique. The aggregation provides absolute arrangement solutions, encompassing disposables and reagents, as able-bodied as alone consulting casework which cover the architecture of customized applications.

IonGate Biosciences GmbH is a adventure basic financed biotechnology aggregation amid in Frankfurt/Main, Germany and Portland, Maine, USA. In accession to the capital financier and arch accomplice Heidelberg Innovation the KfW holds a pale in IonGate. The aggregation was accustomed in 2000 and currently employs added than 30 agents members.


About Bio Research Co., Ltd.
BRC - Bio Research Center Co., Ltd. is a absolute supplier for analysis laboratories in universities and biologic industry in Japan. BRC assuredly searches for avant-garde technologies to accommodate its barter with accompaniment of the art articles from about the world. The aggregation was accustomed in 1984 and is amid in Nagoya, Japan with offices in Tokyo, Osaka and Fukuoka. Two accessory companies are anchored in the USA and in China. The aggregation currently employs 25 agents members.