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www.assaydesigns.comFor Immediate Release
Assay Designs™ , Inc. Announces Agreement with Abnova Corp. of Taiwan
ANN ARBOR, MI, (Nov 5, 2008) – Assay Designs, Inc., a leading provider of immunoassay kits,
antibodies, and reagents to the life science and translational research markets, has announced a
strategic agreem ent with A bnova Corporation of Taiwan. The agreement enables Assay Designs to
distribute approxim ately 3,200 of A bnova's highly characterized monoclonal antibodies to their
U .S. and Canadian customers. This major product addition expands Assay Designs' current product
portfolio to include over 5,300 reagents for im portant research areas such as cell signaling, cellular
stress, neuroscience, and inflammation.
‘This new partnership with Abnova expands our current product portfolio trem endously with high
quality monoclonals for a broad range of applications and research areas”, stated Dan Calvo, CEO
of Assay Designs. “A bnova’s capacity to develop and produce antibodies is very complementary to
our current antibody and immunoassay businesses, and affords our custom er base easy access to
their most highly characterized monoclonals for applications such as ELISA , immunohistochemistry,
and immunofluorescence as well as western blotting.”
A bnova’s mission is to be the world's largest antibody distributor. They have the capacity of
generating 500 mouse monoclonal antibodies and 500 rabbit polyclonal antibodies per month.
“We are very pleased to be collaborating with Assay Designs on broadening the exposure and
accessibility of Abnova antibody and proteins products in the research m arket”, states Wilber
Huang, CEO of Abnova. “Moreover, Assay D esigns’ expertise in immunoassay and system
development highly com plements Abnova's capability in industrial-scale antibody manufacturing
based on “one gene one antibody” translation of the human genome. A ssay Designs and Abnova will work closely together to realize next generation of analytical products which will accelerate the
translational research in the proteomics era.”
About Assay Designs, Inc.
Based in Ann Arbor, M I, Assay Designs develops and manufactures immunoassay (ELISA ) kits,
luminescent reagents, antibodies, proteins, and extracts used for life sciences research. The
company markets these products under the Assay Designs and Stressgen® brand names.
Researchers use the company's products to detect and quantify molecules that are important in
inflammation, cell signaling, and cellular stress. New assay platforms include MultiBead™ beadbased
multiplex immunoassay kits and ImmunoSet™ ELISA development reagents.
About Abnova Corporation
Abnova is a bio-tool proteomic company specializing in automated, high throughput protein
expression and antibody production. The system Abnova has developed is a unique combination of
world-class technologies and management experience of the IT industry in Taiwan. The company's goal is to vastly expand the scope and availability of bio-tool reagents. As such, it is a taking a
genome-wide approach to the production of human recombinant protein and antibody, and is
developing a portfolio of integrated and systemized applications including immuno- and multiplexassays
covering protein families that are essential to the drug discovery and diagnostic industries. |
