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GWC Lines up Cybeles as SE Asia Distributor

Sep 23, 2008
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Cybeles Life Sciences will distribute GWC Technologies’ label-free array systems in South East Asia, GWC said on Monday.
 
Cybeles has agreed to distribute GWC’s systems, which are used in life sciences research, diagnostics, and materials science, in its home country of Singapore and in Malaysia and Thailand.
 
GWC’s CEO, Tim Burland, said Cybeles’ staff has “the scientific background and the technical capabilities” that GWC seeks in its distribution partners.
 
Financial terms of the agreement were not released.

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