Duke University Medical Center Chooses Immucor's Galileo

NORCROSS, Ga., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Immucor, Inc. , a global leader in providing automated instrument-reagent systems to the blood transfusion industry, announced today that it has received a purchase order for 2 Galileo systems from Duke University Medical Center.

Duke University Medical Center is consistently ranked among the top ten health care organizations in the country. As the youngest of the nation's leading medical centers, Duke has earned an international reputation for innovation and excellence. Duke will utilize Galileo's full test menu: Blood Typing, Weak D testing, Antibody Screening, Antibody Identification, Direct Antiglobulin testing, and Donor Retypes.

"Duke University Medical Center is one of the most prestigious health care organizations in the United States," stated Dr. Gioacchino De Chirico, President of Immucor, Inc. "We are very pleased that Duke has chosen the Galileo system for their blood bank laboratory."

Founded in 1982, Immucor manufactures and sells a complete line of reagents and systems used by hospitals, reference laboratories and donor centers to detect and identify certain properties of the cell and serum components of blood prior to transfusion. Immucor markets a complete family of automated instrumentation for all of our market segments.

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