Invitrogen and Applied Biosystems merge

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Biotech company linkurl:Invitrogen;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/13263/ announced today (Jun 12) that it will acquire linkurl:Applied Biosystems;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/15680/ in a deal valued at $6.7 billion. "This transaction combines the industry's premier consumables provider with the industry's premier systems provider to create a world-class biotechnology tools company," said linkurl:Gregory Lucier,;http://www.biotech360.com/biotechArticleDisplay.jsp?biotechArticleId=100013 chairman and CEO of Invitrogen, in a linkurl:statement;http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=61498&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1165252&highlight= issued by the company. "With this acquisition, we are nearly doubling our consumables business as almost half of Applied Biosystems's revenues are consumable in nature," continued Lucier, who will serve as CEO of the combined company. "It also provides significant value creating opportunities for customers, shareholders and employees alike." According to the Invitrogen statement, the merged company is expected to fetch approximately $3.5 billion in revenue and will maintain about 3,000 sales and service employees. The company created by the merger, expected to close this fall pending regulatory and shareholder approval, will retain the Applied Biosystems name while operating out of Invitrogen's Carlsbad, CA headquarters. The new company's board will comprise nine current Invitrogen board members and three Applied Biosystems board members.

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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