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Biotech company Lipotype Dresden founds US subsidiary
Dresden/Cambridge, 14 December 2022: Lipotype is establishing a subsidiary in the USA. This was announced by the Saxon fat analysis company. The subsidiary in Cambridge will help the parent company to further develop the North American market and is intended to provide more service and proximity to the US customers already acquired, according to the Dresden-based institute spin-off.
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40% of customers are based in the USA
„This new step was only natural“, emphasises Oliver Uecke, who heads the US subsidiary. Around 40 per cent of customers are already based in the United States. „Through Lipotype Inc., we make it possible for US customers to access our services and ship their samples more easily.“ Meanwhile, the cosmetics and food group „Unilever“ welcomed the establishment of its first foreign branch in the USA: „Lipotype provides us with a consistent and reliable service in the field of lipidomic sample analysis“, explained Unilever researcher John Bajor. The US subsidiary „in geographical proximity to our laboratories“ could deepen this co-operation. Lipotype has chosen a suburb of the US biotech metropolis of Boston for this purpose. The branch there currently consists of the „Lipotype Inc.“-Chef Oliver Uecke. Lipotype spokesman Henri M. Deda announced that staff would be gradually recruited there over the coming year. „However, we are also open to opening a laboratory unit in the USA in the medium term.“
Case of precedent for Saxony
Saxon Science Minister Sebastian Gemkow (CDU) also sees this as an important signal. Biotechnology is a pillar of the innovative strength and economic power of the Free State of Saxony," he commented. „The founding of the US subsidiary Lipotype Inc. is a major precedent for Saxony and the biotech cluster Biosaxony.“
Lipotype spun out of Planck Genetics Institute
Prof. Kai Simons from the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) Dresden founded „Lipotype“ in 2012 from research projects at the institute. The company specialises in spectroscopic contract analyses of lipid building blocks („lipids“) for the cosmetics, food and pharmaceutical industries as well as for research institutions. For its contract analyses, the 30-strong company uses shotgun mass spectrometry, with which over 4,200 fat molecules from a sample can be analysed within a short period of time. For example, blood or tissue samples prepared in the device are shot into fragments like in a shotgun and passed on to the mass analyser. Depending on which fat molecules (lipids) were contained in the sample and in what quantity, they behave differently in the mass analyser. This allows a „lipid“signature to be read from a person's blood, for example, or from a sample of a new cosmetic product.
Source: Oiger, 14 December 2022
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