FEI, Sidec to collaborate on protein tomography

Mar. 9, 2006 – FEI Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., and Sweden-based Sidec Technologies AB announced that the two companies will collaborate on the commercialization of protein tomography solutions and services based on Sidec’s proprietary software and intellectual property, and FEI’s transmission electron microscopes.

Protein tomography is a new technology developed to address critical issues around drug target validation and translational medicine in the pharmaceutical industry, improving target validation processes and shortening development time for new pharmaceuticals.

FEI has developed cryo electron microscopy for the imaging of biological structures in close collaboration with many top level academic groups in Europe and the U.S. Sidec is very active in the field of protein imaging using cryo electron tomography and has several research collaborations with global pharmaceutical companies.

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