Aushon Biosystems

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Aushon Biosystems has been building up its IP portfolio ahead of a planned expansion to its Cira immunoassay platform.

Title: Method of and system for applying blocking material to assay substrates.
Patent Number: 8,685,486
Filed: Aug. 10, 2011

Richard Smith, director of proteomics at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, has been named recipient of the 2013 Award for a Distinguished Contribution in Mass Spectrometry by the American Society for Mass Spectrometry.

Agilent Technologies said this week that it has awarded its Agilent Thought Leader Award to Ronald DePinho, an oncologist at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

BG Medicine has appointed Charles Abdalian to be executive VP and chief financial officer. Mike Rogers will be departing the company after three-and-a-half years as CFO.

Aushon BioSystems has appointed Martin Verhoef to be company CEO and to serve on its board of directors.

Aushon Biosystems of Billerica, Mass., has received US Patent No. 8,246,760, "Continual flow pin washer." The patent describes a multi-chambered deposition pin wash station that includes a lower chamber and an upper drain basin connected by wash tubes.