Organization:BMG Labtech

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BMG Labtech is a developer and manufacturer of microplate reader instrumentation.[1][2][3]

History

Founded as a contract engineering company in Offenburg in 1989 focused on designing components for microplate readers, BMG Labtech released their first fluorescence-based design in 1993 and relocated to Ortenberg in 2011.[4][3]

Among others, the Nobel laureates Brian Kobilka and Robert Lefkowitz, who won their Nobel prize for discoveries about the inner workings of G protein-coupled receptors,[5] had been using microplate readers by BMG Labtech to conduct their tests and research.[3][6]

In 2018 former employee Hugh Franklin Johnson II was accused of embezzling $5.8 Million from BMG Labtech Inc., the United States subsidiary, between 2012 and 2017.[7]

Products, tasks & company structure

BMG Labtech focusses on developing and manufacturing microplate readers. The array of products offers different devices for specific requirements and fields such as life science, drug development, biotechnology or academical and pharmaceutical research laboratories.[4][8][9][10][11]

The firm with 130 employees worldwide[4] has its headquarters in Ortenberg (Germany ), where the products are conceived, developed, assembled and tested, subsidiaries in the United States , United Kingdom , Australia , Japan and France and distributors all around the world, offering a worldwide sales and support network.[2][3][12]

References

  1. "Company profile". Better Business Bureau. https://www.bbb.org/us/nc/cary/profile/lab-equipment/bmg-labtech-inc-0593-90004918. Retrieved October 9, 2018. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Company website". https://www.bmglabtech.com/about-us/. Retrieved October 9, 2018. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Helmut Seller (October 12, 2012). "Technik für Nobelpreisträger" (in de). Badische Zeitung. https://www.genios.de/document/BADZ__5164822548. Retrieved October 9, 2018. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Speed Plate Readers At The Top Of Their Game - A conversation with Thomas Räbiger, CEO, BMG LABTECH". Nature (journal). May 4, 2017. https://www.nature.com/advertorials/insideview/pdf/ivbmglabtechmay2017.pdf. Retrieved October 11, 2018. 
  5. "Press release". Royal Swedish Academy of Science. October 10, 2012. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2012/press-release. Retrieved October 11, 2018. 
  6. "2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Uses Research Equipment Engineered Locally from BMG LABTECH". analytica-world.com. October 16, 2012. http://www.analytica-world.com/en/news/140147/2012-nobel-prize-in-chemistry-uses-research-equipment-engineered-locally-from-bmg-labtech.html. Retrieved October 11, 2012. 
  7. Ron Gallagher (February 7, 2018). "Cary tech executive charged with embezzling $5.8 million from company". The News & Observer. https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/crime/article198814189.html. Retrieved October 12, 2018. 
  8. "Short company profile" (in de). Punkt.de. https://punkt.de/de/case-studies/bmg-labtech.html. Retrieved October 12, 2018. 
  9. Randall C. Willis (June 2017). "Special Report on Cancer Metabolomics: Into the metabolic maelstrom". DDN News. http://www.ddn-news.com/index.php?pg=77&articleid=11604. Retrieved October 13, 2018. 
  10. "Collaboration to Provide Integration Between Microplate Reader Range and Data Analysis Platform Announced". LabMate UK & Ireland. January 20, 2017. https://www.labmate-online.com/news/laboratory-products/3/bmg-labtech-gmbh/collaboration-to-provide-integration-between-microplate-reader-range-and-data-analysis-platform-announced/41477. Retrieved October 13, 2018. 
  11. Mark Barok, Maija Puhka, Gyorgy Vereb, Janos Szollosi, Jorma Isola and Heikki Joensuu (May 2, 2018). "Cancer-derived exosomes from HER2-positive cancer cells carry trastuzumab-emtansine into cancer cells leading to growth inhibition and caspase activation". BMC Cancer 18 (1): 504. doi:10.1186/s12885-018-4418-2. PMID 29720111. 
  12. "BMG Labtech predicts growth and expands HQ". Foodnavigator.com. August 31, 2016. https://www.foodnavigator.com/Article/2016/09/01/BMG-Labtech-doubles-production-area. Retrieved October 12, 2018. 

External Links

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