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Spinco completes one-year partnership with MDS Analytical

Our Bureau, MumbaiSaturday, November 8, 2008, 08:00 Hrs  [IST]

Spinco Biotech, an exclusive India distributor for molecular devices-branded products announced its success of a one-year partnership with MDS Analytical Technologies in India. Spinco Biotech, as exclusive distributor for MDS Analytical Technologies in India, has placed more than one hundred molecular devices SpectraMax series micro plate readers across India. Spinco Biotech has recently reorganized its team to special focus on the life sciences market. MDS Analytical Technologies has provided exhaustive training to marketing, application and tech-support engineers of Spinco Biotech in India as well as in Sunnyvale, California, US. Dr Poonam Taneja, director of sales at MDS Analytical Technologies commented, "We are very pleased with the fantastic performance by Spinco team to meet customer research needs promptly, efficiently and effectively." MDS Analytical Technologies has been very successful over the past year, and its product solutions have facilitated customer research and new applications. The company's FLIPR fluorometric imaging plate reader, Flexstation, GenePix microarray scanners, Axon Electrophysiology systems and a number of multimode readers have been placed by Spinco Biotech in laboratories across the country. Talking about the future, Dr Taneja indicated that MDS Analytical Technologies would be hosting a User Group meeting in India in early 2009, bringing together experts from the US and scientists in India to address the current issues in life sciences research and drug discovery. Dr Taneja commented, "India is a very important market to MDS Analytical Technologies, and we are strongly committed to meeting customer research needs." Commenting on the one-year association with MDS Analytical Technologies, C Ravindranath, MD of Spinco Biotech said, "The life sciences portfolio is Spinco Biotechs growth engine, and the products offered by MDS Analytical Technologies are very complementary to our growth strategy. The products are comprehensive and innovative solutions for researchers in the fields of genomics, proteomics, and drug discovery. We look forward to another successful year with them." MDS Analytical Technologies, a business unit of MDS Inc, is focused on the research, design, manufacture and marketing of state-of-the-art tools for mass-spectrometry, drug discovery and bioresearch. Spinco Biotech Pvt Ltd has proven track record of 27 years in serving the scientific community with a network of 26 offices across India with a team of 300 people serving the customers.

 
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