Eskitis Institute At Griffith University Has Chosen Evotec Technologies GmbH' Opera As A HCS Platform

HAMBURG, Germany and BRISBANE, Australia, June 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Evotec Technologies GmbH, a supplier of innovative tools and technologies for life sciences and pharmaceutical drug discovery, and the Eskitis Institute, Griffith University, today announced the installation of an Opera(TM) system as a platform to provide Eskitis' with high-content screening (HCS).

With almost 40 installations today the Opera has become the most prominent system for combining high-throughput screening with high content analysis. The Opera combines the precision of confocal microscopy with the speed of primary screening instrumentation.

"We are extremely proud to be chosen by Eskitis as technology provider. We see an increasing demand for fully automated microscopy in academia research to cope with the high throughput experimentation requirements of modern cell biology research. The Opera is the ideal tool for such purpose because it provides true confocality and the desired speed plus great flexibility with respect to options and upgrades, e.g. excitation / emission combinations, imaging magnification, on-board dispensing, environmental control, or plate handling," stated Dr Guenter Bauer, CBO at Evotec Technologies GmbH.

"The Opera will further enhance the capabilities of Eskitis in the area of high content cell biology by providing a platform that will enable research into cellular functions at a speed and throughput not previously available to Australian researchers. It is also an important advance in the drug discovery process as it is able to provide multiple readouts on how a potential drug may effect the growth and function of a cell," comments Professor Ron Quinn, Professor & Director of Eskitis Institute for Cell and Molecular Therapies, Griffith University.

Contact: Evotec Technologies GmbH Dr. Gunter Bauer Schnackenburgallee 114 22525 Hamburg, Germany Phone: +49-40-56081-321 E-mail: guenter.bauer@evotec-technologies.com

CONTACT: Evotec Technologies GmbH, Dr. Gunter Bauer, Phone:+49-40-56081-321, E-mail: guenter.bauer@evotec-technologies.com