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Leiden University Medical Center Buys a Fluidigm BioMark RT-PCR System

Aug 29, 2007
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Fluidigm and BIOKE, distributor of Fluidigm systems in the Benelux region, have announced that Leiden University Medical Center has purchased the company’s BioMark real-time PCR system.
 
The system was installed in the laboratory of Gert-Jan Van Ommen, head of the Department of Human Genetics and founder of the Leiden Genome Technology Center, a “principal genomics facility in the Netherlands.
 
Fluidigm and BIOKE added that Van Ommen’s lab also plans to use BioMark digital arrays, which are crafted to partition a single sample/reagent mixture into 765 assays.
 
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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