Tecan, a supplier of laboratory instruments and solutions, and GE Healthcare, have formed collaboration to bring increased quality and efficiency to process development.
The collaboration between the two suppliers focuses on high-throughput screening of protein purification conditions, using the winning combination of Tecan’s Freedom Evo automated workstation with GE Healthcare’s PreDictor 96-well plates pre-filled with BioProcess chromatography media.
The throughput, precision and robustness of a Tecan automation platform ensures reproducible results from GE Healthcare’s 96-well process development technology, providing efficient miniaturized, parallel screening performed in a multivariate fashion with minimal cross-contamination.
The combination of the technologies substantially shortens time spent on process development while allowing the investigation of a much larger experimental space, resulting in greater understanding of the process. The unique solution for the screening of process conditions provides process developers with quality, efficiency and reliability in downstream process development, the two companies said.
Eric Willimann, market manager of protein science at Tecan, said: With this collaboration, we have created a powerful solution for process development. The combination of GE’s chemistry and Tecan’s hardware will provide our customers with a rapid and efficient method of screening process parameters, with minimal hands-on time.