On SeptemDanaher acquired Iris Diagnostics and its parent company IRIS International, Inc. On June 30, 2011, Danaher finalized the acquisition of Beckman Coulter. In February 2011, Danaher announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Beckman Coulter. That same year, the company moved its world headquarters from Fullerton, California to the newly renovated facility in Brea, California. In 2009, the company acquired Lab-based Diagnostics business of Olympus Corporation Japan. In 2007, the company acquired the Flow Cytometry Business Group of Dako North America, Inc. In 2006, the company acquired Lumigen and Agencourt Bioscience. In 2005, the company acquired Diagnostic Systems Laboratories (DSL) based in Webster, Texas. Beckman, thereafter, changed its name to Beckman Coulter.īy 2003, the company has more than 200,000 systems operating in laboratories around the world. Coulter, the inventor of the Coulter counter. In 1998, the company acquired Coulter Corporation, a company founded by Wallace H. In 1996, the company acquired the Sanofi portion of Sanofi Pasteur Diagnostics. In 1995, the company acquired Hybritech, Inc. In 1982, the company merged into SmithKline to form SmithKline Beckman, with Arnold Beckman as vice chairman, but regained its independence in 1989 after SmithKline merged with Beecham Group to form SmithKline Beecham (now part of GlaxoSmithKline). In 1961, Beckman acquired Offner Electronics, a company founded by inventor Franklin F. Because Shockley's aging mother lived in Palo Alto, California, the Shockley Laboratory was established in nearby Mountain View, California, and thus, " Silicon Valley" was born. In 1955, Beckman established the seminal Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory as a division of Beckman Instruments to begin commercializing the semiconductor transistor technology invented by Caltech alumnus William Shockley. The Spinco division went on to design and manufacture a broad range of laboratory centrifuges. In 1954, Beckman Instruments acquired ultracentrifuge maker Spinco (Specialized Instruments Corp.).
In the 1950s, the company name changed to Beckman Instruments, Inc. to sell oxygen analyzers, the Helipot precision potentiometer, and spectrophotometers. In the 1940s, Beckman changed the name to Arnold O. Beckman in 1935 as National Technical Laboratories to commercialize a pH meter that he had invented. "Partnerships between Beckman Coulter Life Sciences and reagent manufacturers will accelerate the automation of NGS library prep kits, expanding the menu of the Biomek NGenius liquid handler while harnessing our automation expertise and the library preparation portfolio of partners like Invitae," Jason Lanie, VP and general manager of the biotechnology business unit at Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, said in a statement.Founded by Caltech professor Arnold O.
The liquid handler is built for NGS library prep and is intended to reduce manual transfers and hands-on time for library construction, Beckman said. The system is expected to launch in early 2022, the Danaher subsidiary added. Under the agreement, Invitae will develop applications designed for the Biomek NGenius Liquid Handling System, which will be available to users of the instrument via an electronic application library, Beckman said in a statement. NEW YORK – Beckman Coulter Life Sciences said on Monday that it has entered into an agreement with Invitae to develop applications for Beckman's new next-generation sequencing library preparation system.įinancial and other terms of the deal were not disclosed. Advances in Clinical Genomics Profiling.