On 20 October 2021, one of NATURE-ETN’s partners, ATDBio has announced that it has been acquired by Swedish multinational life sciences company Biotage for approximately £ 45 million. The acquisition will bring many years of experience and expertise in highly complex DNA and RNA production to Biotage. As a new part of the Biotage Group, the ATDBio founders will continue to work on these technologies with existing and new customers. While ATDBio is undergoing major changes, R&D projects such as the ones that are ongoing as part of NATURE-ETN – with early-stage researcher Diallo Traore on CRISPR-Cas 9 in live-cell imaging – will continue as planned.
“ATDBio is very proud to become part of the Biotage family, which shares our passion for innovation, customer focus and sustainability. With our deep understanding of nucleic acid chemistry, we can ensure superior quality oligonucleotide synthesis, and supply highly pure products. We make oligonucleotides for a broad range of academic and commercial customers, including some of the most significant biotech and pharma companies globally. We will now be able to scale up even further thanks to the global presence and world-leading separation science expertise of Biotage. We will continue to innovate, helping our customers to bring the next generation of nucleic acid molecular diagnostics, vaccines and therapeutics to the market”, said Dr Tom Brown Jr, Director of ATDBio.
ATDBio was founded in 2004 by Professor Tom Brown (Snr), one of the world’s leading nucleic acids chemists, Dr Dorcas Brown, an expert in oligonucleotide synthesis, Dr Tom Brown (Jnr) and Dr Asha Brown. It has laboratories in Oxford and Southampton, UK. As a leader in complex oligonucleotide synthesis, ATDBio has been working on molecular diagnostics, nucleic acid-based therapeutics and vaccines in addition to a new generation of DNA and RNA sequencing technologies.
