Biotage extends peptide research collaboration with University of
Copenhagen
12 June 2010
Biotage (STO: BIOT), a supplier of products for medicinal and
analytical chemistry, has extended a research collaboration with the
Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, to develop new
applications on the Biotage Syro Wave in the field of synthetic peptide
and protein chemistry.
The collaboration builds on Professor Knud Jensen’s previous
research in developing novel chemistries for and applications of
solid-phase peptide synthesis.
Global demand from research scientists for synthetic peptides
continues to grow at a double-digit rate. Their needs are for
increasingly longer and more complex peptides to study protein
interactions, produce peptide antibodies, and understand complex
disease states. As the number and complexity of peptides increase,
the scientists and researchers need new tools that offer higher
productivity and increased performance.
Biotage recently entered into collaboration with the German
instrument company MultiSynTech GmbH and Professor Jensen to develop
the Biotage Syro Wave automated peptide synthesizer introduced
earlier this year. The instrument combines the proven technologies
behind Biotage’s Initiator microwave instrument with the
well-established Syro line of robotic peptide synthesizers from
MultiSynTech.
Professor Jensen says “The Syro Wave is the first valve-free
peptide synthesizer with integrated microwave heating. It holds
great promise for the synthesis of both long peptides and even small
proteins.”