Labcyte Signs Bioscreen Instruments as Exclusive Distributor in India

Sunnyvale, CA and Chennai, India— September 23, 2009 — Labcyte, the developer of acoustic liquid transfer, with systems in all top 10 pharmaceutical companies, today announced the selection of Bioscreen Instruments Pvt. Ltd. as its exclusive distributor in India.

“Bioscreen is a leading distributor in India. They will be a great partner for us,” said Stephen Bates, Sr. Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Service of Labcyte Inc. “As we continue to expand throughout Asia, Bioscreen will help us further broaden our existing user base in the pharmaceutical industry and the contract research organizations (CROs) that service them, Bioscreen will provide them with industry-leading Labcyte acoustic technology for compound management, high-throughput and secondary screening. Bioscreen will give our new customers in India immediate support and interaction.

“Bioscreen will also introduce us to new users in the growing genomics market. We feel that with the Labcyte platforms, Bioscreen can meet the genomics customers’ needs for miniaturization, precision and accuracy while remaining contamination-free.”

“We are extremely pleased to be the Labcyte partner in India. It is a great recognition of our distributor capabilities across the entire country of India. Labcyte products will allow us to provide our customers with state-of-the-art platform technology so that they can excel in their efforts,” said Mr. S. Radha Krishnan, Managing Director of Bioscreen Instruments. “We see a great potential market for low-volume liquid handlers in India. We believe that the miniaturization capabilities provided by Labcyte technology will be especially useful for the growing genomics markets, especially for gene expression, SNP analysis and RNAi.”

“As the market moves to higher-density assays, the touchless liquid handling capabilities offered by the Labcyte acoustic products becomes essential,” said Dr. Nick Samaras, Labcyte Managing Director, Asia-Pacific. “In particular, our Echo® liquid handler provides superior results, reduces costs by eliminating consumables and reduces toxic wastes. Our platform technology is also being applied in other fields such as array formation, the microencapsulation of compounds, particle production, proteomics research, the transfer of ultra-viscous materials, cell-based biology and imaging mass spectrometry.”

About Bioscreen Instruments
Bioscreen Instruments Pvt. Ltd. is a leading distributor for Life Science lab instruments, as well as scientific and diagnostic products in India. They focus on Drug Discovery, Genomics, Proteomics and life science market to provide automated solutions for the customer requirement. Bioscreen has a network of offices in all major cities and metropolitan areas. They provide customers with effective technical after sales service support. For more information, visit www.bioscreen.in.

About Labcyte
Labcyte Inc. uses sound to move liquids. This green technology provides significantly better analytical results while saving money. The ‘touchless’ technology provides dramatically better answers by eliminating pipette tips and the adsorption of compounds during transfer, while saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in decreased consumables. Accuracy is maintained from first drop through last for a wide variety of fluids, including many considered intractable by other techniques. The technology is coupled with our Deerac™ instruments to make Labcyte a leader in liquid handling. Together with the Deerac systems, the award-winning Echo liquid handlers are used in all of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies, as well as in leading academic and research institutions worldwide. Labcyte technologies have broad applications including the fields of compound management, genomics, proteomics, particle manufacturing, encapsulation, imaging mass spectrometry, and live-cell transfer. Labcyte is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with offices in Dublin, Ireland and has 39 U.S., 7 European and two Japanese patents and additional U.S. and international filings. For more information, visit www.labcyte.com.