EMD Chemicals, Inc. is an Affiliate of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and is comprised of the five brands, Calbiochem, Novabiochem, and Novagen Research Products. In the Asia-Pacific region our products are marketed under the Merck name. Our corporate headquarters are located at: - EMD Chemicals, Inc.
- 10394 Pacific Center Court
- San Diego, CA 92121
- Phone: 858-450-5500
- Fax: 858-450-5522
EMD Chemicals, Inc. employs more than 350 people worldwide. International manufacturing, sales offices and distribution partners are located around the world. For a list of EMD partners in the Asia-Pacific region please see Local Sales Offices and Distribution Partners. EMD Chemicals Inc.'s brand profiles are listed below. Calbiochem
Calbiochem is the company's oldest brand with approximately 45 years in the market, and specializes in biochemical and biological reagents for use by worldwide life sciences researchers. Calbiochem reaches the marketplace through a number of highly innovative catalog offerings, including the following: - Signal Transduction niche catalog providing the industry's largest offering of more than 4,000 highly innovative products to assist life sciences researchers with principal focus in intercellular and intracellular communications. This fast growing area of scientific study is particularly important in the study of cancer, AIDS and Alzheimers. The Company's most recent catalog update was issued in the third quarter of 2000, with approximately 140,000 catalogs being printed.
- Calbiochem General catalog providing more than 3,100 biochemical, immunochemical, and peptide chemicals for broad use by life sciences researchers. The general catalog offering supplements the innovative niche offerings with other general purpose reagents of interest to life sciences researchers. The most recent update of this catalog was published in the spring of 2000, with approximately 6,000 products and a print run of more than 250,000 catalogs.
Novabiochem
Novabiochem is the Company's brand with approximately 15 years in the market specializing in highly purified peptides, FMOC amino acids, BOC amino acids and resins and linkers used by worldwide life sciences researchers. Novabiochem's significant strengths in development and production of complex peptide chemistry products, and amino acids, caused the company to focus on the high growth area of combinatorial chemistry approximately two years ago. Combinatorial chemistry has become a popular tool used in the pharmaceutical industry to significantly reduce the drug discovery cycle time, through the use of combinatorial techniques. Novabiochem reaches the marketplace through a number of highly innovative catalog offerings, including the following: - Combinatorial chemistry niche catalog is in its second printing, with over 170 highly innovative resins and linkers being presented to pharmaceutical researchers in a catalog printing of approximately 20,000 copies. The combinatorial process has increasingly been used by key pharmaceutical companies, particularly in the United States, to reduce overall drug discovery time by accelerating the process of identifying active "target" compounds for further testing in an automated drug screening process.
- Novabiochem general catalog was most recently published in the fourth quarter of 2000 with over 3,000 products being presented to life sciences researchers in a catalog printing of approximately 160,000 copies. This product offering includes highly innovative FMOC amino acids, BOC amino acids and a wide variety of peptides and peptide intermediates of interest to peptide chemists doing life sciences research.
Novagen
Novagen is the Company's newest brand. It has approximately 6 years in the market, and specializes in molecular biology for use by life sciences researchers worldwide. Novagen services the marketplace in the major categories of High Throughput (HT) compatibles, Cloning, Transformation/Transfection, Phage Display, Protein Expression, Transcription/Translation, Gene & Protein Analysis, Protein Purification, Nucleic Acid Purification, PCR and Molecular Size Markers. - Novagen’s General catalog providing more than 1250 molecular biology products for broad use by life sciences researchers. The most recent general catalog offering offers a number of compatible products from the Calbiochem and Oncogene Research Products brand names. This catalog was published in January 2001, with approximately 125 new products, 12,5000 products and a print run of more than 145,000 catalogs..
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