flyion GmbH is expanding its business operation. Safety Assessments, Compound Screening, Assay Development, and the generation of proprietory ion channel targets in a stable and inducible cell line are now part of flyion's product portfolio. Use the specific links on flyion's home page to access product information.

ALTANA Pharma, now part of the NYCOMED group, and flyion GmbH have engaged in a validation study utilizing flyion's technology. The automated Flyscreen APC and a hERG cell line generated in-house proved to be valuable for an intermediate throughput hERG screen. Read the article "GIT - Screening: Trends in Drug Discovery

Dr. Dirck Lassen joined flyion as Vice President for Commercial Operations. In this role, he will be responsible for sales, marketing and general management. Dr. Lassen will seek new business relationships and contribute to the strategic direction for the growth and expansion of flyion's business. He brings 13 years of sales and marketing experience to the flyion management team. Most recently he was responsible for worldwide informatics sales and scientific marketing at Tripos Inc., a vendor of software and high throughput screening products and services for the life science industries.

BioRegio STERN Management GmbH interviewed flyion's CSO, Dr. Fejtl to find out more about how the company entered the Asian market so successfully. Please read full interview "The art of doing business in Asia" published in the the Biotech / Lifescience Portal Baden-Württemberg.

The German biotechnology company flyion has successfully entered the Indian and Chinese market by selling two Flyscreen automated patch clamp units in Bangalore and Beijing, respectively.

flyion GmbH is proud to announce the first sale of its Flyscreen® 8500 automated patch clamp robot in China. In collaboration with flyion´s distributor Dakewe Biotech, the unit will be installed at the Capital University of Medical Sciences in Beijing. To our knowledge, this is the first successful sale of an automated patch clamp system in China. The system is to be expected to start its operation in early 2007.

flyion proudly announces the automated patch clamping of mitochondria with its proprietary Flyscreen robot using FlipTip glass pipettes. The Flyscreen robot is the only Automated Patch Clamp system worldwide that can be adopted to cell organelles as small as mitochondria with diameters below 1000 nm.
The special recording tips required were manufactured using flyion's Feedback-Microforge technology. Single channel currents of the outer membrane of mitochondria have been measured in the laboratory of the Institut Bergonié et INSERM E347, France. The experiments were co-organized by Dipsi Industrie, flyion's exclusive representative in France.
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flyion´s new recording consumable, the ChipTip, allowed a major breakthrough in the hERG patch clamp assay. The Flyscreen® robot is now implemented in Altana Pharma's routine automated safety screening campaign.

Talk by Dr. Georg Rast, Altana Pharma: "Early cardiac safety from hit evaluation to candidate selection"
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