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Agilent Technologies, BIA Separations GmbH sign agreement giving Agilent access to BIA Separations' bio-monolitic technology

05 Jun 2008 - Agilent Technologies Inc. and BIA Separations GmbH announced the signing of an agreement that gives Agilent access to BIA Separations' bio-monolithic technology. Agilent plans to commercialize analytical HPLC bio-monolith columns with strong and weak ion-exchange phases and a Protein A phase. BIA Separations currently provides their preparative scale CIM(r) disk and process scale CIM(r) tube bio-monolithic products for purification and bioconversion of bio-molecules.
 
"Having access to the bio-monolithic technology allows Agilent to provide enabling solutions for the analytical separation of virus particles, plasmid DNA, antibodies and other macro bio-molecules," said Helen Stimson, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Global Columns and Supplies Solutions. "This technology, when applied at the analytical scale, will improve bio-drug characterization in development and allow QA/QC and process control labs to better monitor and characterize the production of biologics."