CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK and PASCHING, AUSTRIA – 12 April 2016 – GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business today announced that its European manufacturing and distribution site for sterile liquids has expanded its capabilities to include production of large volumes of buffers, process liquids and cell culture media, and launched a rapid production service for prototype... Read more
BARRINGTON, IL., March 9, 2016 — GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) today announced the appointment of Charles Koontz as president and CEO of GE Healthcare IT and GE Healthcare Chief Digital Officer, effective March 14. Koontz succeeds Jan De Witte, who is leaving GE. Koontz joins GE from Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) and CSRA, where he was... Read more
Lincoln, UK, 08 March 2016 – Path Links, the single managed NHS clinical pathology service operating across Lincolnshire, has upgraded to digital pathology to continue its focus on providing the highest quality diagnostic services for Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and 186 General Practices across the county. Path... Read more
WUHAN, China and AMERSHAM, England, Feb. 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — JHL Biotech (TPEx: 6540) and GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business (NYSE: GE) are proud to announce mechanical completion of JHL Biotech’s JHL-1 biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility in the Biolake area of Wuhan, China. The campus was built to be compliant with the highest international standards, and after site validation is completed in June... Read more
CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK and BEIJING, CHINA – 16 December 2015 – GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business and BeiGene, Ltd. today announced that BeiGene has selected GE’s FlexFactory™ biomanufacturing platform for its first current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) biomanufacturing facility in Suzhou, China. Currently under construction, the facility is expected to be operational by 2017.... Read more
WAUWATOSA, Wis., Dec. 7, 2015 – The National Basketball Association (NBA) and GE Healthcare (NYSE: GE) today conducted a successful meeting at GE’s Wisconsin offices to discuss the progress of their research collaboration. The partnership, which commenced in July, promotes sports medicine research to benefit not only NBA players but athletes of all levels. Today’s... Read more
CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK – 3 December 2015 – GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business today announced that its chromatography media manufacturing facility and supporting functions in Uppsala, Sweden have been certified to ISO 22301, the international standard for business continuity management systems. Chromatography medium is a key component in the production of biopharmaceuticals such as... Read more
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CHALFONT ST. GILES, UK – 9 November 2015 – Technetium-99m (Tc‑99m) is used in more than 40 million medical imaging procedures each year, primarily stress tests to assess heart disease, and bone scans to determine the stage of cancer progression. This essential medical isotope is generated in pharmacies and hospitals from another isotope—molybdenum-99 (Mo-99). Despite... Read more
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