Sunrise™ in Mongolia Tecan Group Ltd.
An amazing collaboration between staff from Tecan, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has resulted in the donation of a Tecan Sunrise™ microplate reader to Mongolian medical researchers, assisting their studies of vitamin D levels in the general population.
Dr Janet Rich-Edwards, Associate Professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, US, explained: “The Health Sciences University of Mongolia has been investigating vitamin D deficiency in Mongolian people and, with no readily available vitamin D assay, were forced to transport frozen samples to the US for testing, which was a logistical nightmare and a huge barrier to research. Gary Bradwin, Manager at the Clinical and Epidemiologic Laboratory (CERLab), Children’s Hospital Boston, became involved, volunteering his time to help Mongolian scientists set up and perform vitamin D assays themselves.”
Gary added: “I visited Mongolia, where we looked at all the different methods available, eventually opting for an ELISA. However, the laboratory was very short of equipment and consumables; the plate reader was ancient and could only handle one eight-well strip at a time, and data handling was problematic, relying on a small printer that simply recorded raw absorbance numbers. We had a spare Sunrise reader, so I decided to make sure it was operational and then donate it to the Mongolian laboratory. Initially, I had difficulty getting the Sunrise to communicate with the Magellan™ software and so I contacted Tecan.”
On learning that Gary wanted to donate his Sunrise to a laboratory in Mongolia that was trying to measure vitamin D in the country’s children, Tecan did a free-of-charge repair in support of this worthy cause, even sending the system to Tecan Austria for a firmware upgrade. Gary concluded: “I was really impressed that Tecan took so much interest and went as far as they did. Almost everything seemed to have been replaced, even the case, and the Sunrise is working beautifully.”
To find out more about Tecan’s Sunrise, visit www.tecan.com/sunrise
For more information please contact
Tecan Trading AG
Tanja Sager
Seestrasse 103, CH-8708 Männedorf
Tel +41 (0)44 922 81 11, Fax +41 (0)44 922 81 12
info@tecan.com
About Tecan
Tecan (www.tecan.com) is a leading global provider of laboratory instruments and solutions in biopharmaceuticals, forensics, and clinical diagnostics. The company specializes in the development, production and distribution of instruments and automated workflow solutions for laboratories in the life sciences sector. As an original equipment manufacturer, Tecan is also a leader in developing and manufacturing OEM instruments and components that are then distributed by partner companies. Founded in Switzerland in 1980, the company has manufacturing, research and development sites in both Europe and North America and maintains a sales and service network in 52 countries. In 2009, Tecan generated sales of CHF 392 million (USD 361.2 million; EUR 259.6 million). Registered shares of Tecan Group are traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange (TK: TECN/Reuters: TECZn.S/ ISIN CH0012100191).
For more information:
http://www.tecan.com/sunrise Editor's Details
Sarah Ballard
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Read more: http://www.pharmiweb.com/pressreleases/pressrel.asp?ROW_ID=50972#ixzz1efqjZsqB
Dr Janet Rich-Edwards, Associate Professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, US, explained: “The Health Sciences University of Mongolia has been investigating vitamin D deficiency in Mongolian people and, with no readily available vitamin D assay, were forced to transport frozen samples to the US for testing, which was a logistical nightmare and a huge barrier to research. Gary Bradwin, Manager at the Clinical and Epidemiologic Laboratory (CERLab), Children’s Hospital Boston, became involved, volunteering his time to help Mongolian scientists set up and perform vitamin D assays themselves.”
Gary added: “I visited Mongolia, where we looked at all the different methods available, eventually opting for an ELISA. However, the laboratory was very short of equipment and consumables; the plate reader was ancient and could only handle one eight-well strip at a time, and data handling was problematic, relying on a small printer that simply recorded raw absorbance numbers. We had a spare Sunrise reader, so I decided to make sure it was operational and then donate it to the Mongolian laboratory. Initially, I had difficulty getting the Sunrise to communicate with the Magellan™ software and so I contacted Tecan.”
On learning that Gary wanted to donate his Sunrise to a laboratory in Mongolia that was trying to measure vitamin D in the country’s children, Tecan did a free-of-charge repair in support of this worthy cause, even sending the system to Tecan Austria for a firmware upgrade. Gary concluded: “I was really impressed that Tecan took so much interest and went as far as they did. Almost everything seemed to have been replaced, even the case, and the Sunrise is working beautifully.”
To find out more about Tecan’s Sunrise, visit www.tecan.com/sunrise
For more information please contact
Tecan Trading AG
Tanja Sager
Seestrasse 103, CH-8708 Männedorf
Tel +41 (0)44 922 81 11, Fax +41 (0)44 922 81 12
info@tecan.com
About Tecan
Tecan (www.tecan.com) is a leading global provider of laboratory instruments and solutions in biopharmaceuticals, forensics, and clinical diagnostics. The company specializes in the development, production and distribution of instruments and automated workflow solutions for laboratories in the life sciences sector. As an original equipment manufacturer, Tecan is also a leader in developing and manufacturing OEM instruments and components that are then distributed by partner companies. Founded in Switzerland in 1980, the company has manufacturing, research and development sites in both Europe and North America and maintains a sales and service network in 52 countries. In 2009, Tecan generated sales of CHF 392 million (USD 361.2 million; EUR 259.6 million). Registered shares of Tecan Group are traded on the SIX Swiss Exchange (TK: TECN/Reuters: TECZn.S/ ISIN CH0012100191).
For more information:
http://www.tecan.com/sunrise Editor's Details
Sarah Ballard
http://www.tecan.com/
Read more: http://www.pharmiweb.com/pressreleases/pressrel.asp?ROW_ID=50972#ixzz1efqjZsqB
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