As part of its expanding commitment to helping advance drug discovery and life sciences research in Asia, PerkinElmer, a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, has announced the inauguration of a new Center of Excellence (COE) in Singapore at the world-renowned A*STAR Biopolis research complex.
The Center of Excellence is the second Singapore-based facility of its kind opened by PerkinElmer in the past year. The Center will serve as a training and knowledge sharing facility for life sciences researchers located throughout the Pacific Rim. Operated by PerkinElmer’s Bio-discovery business unit, the Center will provide advanced solutions in the areas of automation and detection, cellular imaging and analysis, and drug discovery and research reagents.
“PerkinElmer’s decision to open an additional Center of Excellence in Singapore within a year underscores the Company’s commitment to both environmental and human health and becoming an even more significant partner in Singapore’s growing life sciences community,” said Daniel Marshak, PhD, chief scientific officer and president of Greater China, PerkinElmer. “The new Center is also a testament to the compelling advantages of local and regional expertise. As we continue to expand into cellular sciences, we greatly anticipate working closely with both our regional and global customers through the new Center.”
Richard Eglen, PhD, President, Bio-discovery at PerkinElmer, said, “PerkinElmer recognizes the importance of technical support and training to ensure that our customers benefit fully from our expertise in imaging and detection as well as our reagent biology and chemistry. We offer an optimal combination of life science research technologies, in addition to proven local expertise in all cellular science technologies. PerkinElmer looks forward to providing industry leading laboratory instruments, consumables, services and customer service to advance solutions for human health in Asia, and worldwide.”
The newest Singapore COE is well equipped with PerkinElmer instruments, software and reagents for biotech, pharmaceutical and academic customers that enable scientific workshops, demonstrations and customer support and training. It also provides classroom courses with topics covering techniques for assay development and training of instrumentation and related analysis software. PerkinElmer’s first Singapore based Center of Excellence was opened in March 2008. This application center is dedicated to the critical issues surrounding environmental health.
The first Center supports a wide range of detection instrumentation and applications for environmental, food, materials and oil industries, as well as for expanding PerkinElmer’s EcoAnalytix(TM) revolutionary problem-solving initiative that addresses the global imperatives of food and consumer product safety, water quality and sustainable energy development