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Analtech Featured in article about Delaware BioScience
October 02, 2008 at 02:36 PM
Analtech, Inc. is featured in an article from Community Publications - a family of weekly newspapers in Delaware - the article focuses on the Delaware BioScience Association.
Excerpt from article by Adam Zewe:
The Delaware BioScience Association, founded two years ago, has grown to include 73 members representing a wide variety of biotech firms.
The networking opportunities afforded by the association have been beneficial to the state’s bioscience industry, which is strong and growing, said Jennifer Kmiec, chairwoman of the association.
The state’s high concentration of bioscience companies is partly a result of DuPont’s legacy, she said. DuPont has traditionally encouraged spin-off scientists who start their own research companies. In addition, when DuPont’s pharmaceuticals department closed, it saturated the labor market with well-trained researchers, Kmiec said.
It was a former DuPont scientist who founded the Newark-based biotech company Analtech in 1961, said Ken Grant, Analtech’s sales and marketing director.
The company is the only U.S. producer of thin layer chromatography plates, glass plates used to separate and analyze components of a liquid, and sells about a million plates worldwide each year, said General Manager Steven C. Miles.
The technology has hundreds of applications, including pregnancy tests, crime scene investigations and disease research, Grant said, and it is exciting to be involved in a fast-moving field like bioscience.
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