iiiGatlik
High Throughput Screening Systems
High Throughput Screening Systems
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| 02/21/08
CASHspecial BETTER, FASTER TESTING SYSTEMS Some still say that Basel is not a cluster of the international chemical and pharmaceutical industry! When the just 24-year-old chemist Iwo Gatlik in the middle of the 90’s moved from Cracow to Western Europe, he was pulled somehow automatically to the Rhine knee. And here, he started a career, which until now was more common for Germans, Frenchmen and Britons. He quickly earned scientific merits and made himself independent in January 2005. Since then he boldly entered a multibillion market for laboratory equipment. And here is the key: the best pharmaceutical active substance is useless, if it does not have a certain metabolic stability; if it, in other words, can’t preserve its properties in the contact with our body, at least during a certain period. In order to test this stability, the pharmaceutical industry uses so-called screening systems. In this rapid procedures it will be identified how an active substance reacts with other biochemical substances, for example enzymes. For the industry the speed of this Screenings is as crucial as is the precision. And Gatlik developed an electrochemical procedure, which increases this speed by the factor of 100 on the basis of its research in the area of the polymers. Its "Metabolic Stability Screening" MSS system, comprising of custom- made well plates, related analyzing instruments and software is long past the testing phase; it is, for example, already used by Roche. And more companies of this caliber are likely soon to come. In March, Iwo Gatlik was able to hire his first full salesman. |
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