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Amersham
Medical Devices & Tech
800 Centennial Avenue P.O. Box 1327
Piscataway, NJ 08855-1327 USA
phone:1-732-457-8000
fax:1-732-457-0557
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Founded 1997
Employees 10000
          www.amersham,com
Research Sector Medical Devices & Tech
Summary Description
Medical diagnostics for the life sciences.
Management
Keywords
diagnostic, imaging, protein separations, discovery, systems, SoftwareSystems

Comment | Printable Version | Modify profile Mar. 08, 2007

Description
Amersham, a GE Healthcare company, is organised in two businesses, Amersham Health (medical diagnostics and therapy products) and Amersham Biosciences (discovery systems and protein separations).
Products / Services
Amersham Health is a provider of in vivo medical diagnostic products for the early and accurate detection of disease. Our products are injected into the body to improve pictures obtained during medical scans, and are focused on three areas of growing clinical need - cardiology, neurology and cancer Amersham Biosciences provides high throughput systems (instruments, reagents and software) to improve the effectiveness of life science and pharmaceutical R&D, as well as laboratory research tools and technology to purify, detect and analyse biological molecules. Our products include technologies for DNA sequencing, gene expression and genetic variation, for the study of proteins and their role in biological function, for the analysis of cellular processes in metabolism and disease, and for screening and testing of potential new drugs.


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