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Company Profile
 
PrimerDesign is an innovative biotechnology company focused on developing improved solutions for gene quantitation by real-time PCR.  Founded within Southampton University's School of Medicine, PrimerDesign has unparalleled opportunities to access technology and clinically relevant material in pursuit of these goals.  In partnership with ATDbio, also based in Southampton, PrimerDesign specialises in developing gene quantitation assays validated and manufactured to the very highest standard. 
 
Personnel
 
Rob Powell PhD (Managing Director)
Dr Powell is Senior Research Fellow within Southampton University School of Medicine. PrimerDesign was established on his 10 years of research experience, including human virus diseases and asthma genetics. Dr Powell has been a consultant to the life science industry on matters relating to gene quantitation for the past three years.
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Professor Tom Brown (Director)
Tom Brown is Professor of bio-organic chemistry at Southampton University and is the author of over 150 publications and patents in the nucleic acids field. Tom was the founder and head of Oswel Research Products from 1992 to 2001
 
Jim Wicks PhD (Project Manager)
Jim Wicks joined PrimerDesign in 2005 from a career in clinical research project management. Jim has extensive experience of gene quantitation from 3 years of study within the Southampton University School of Medicine.
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Dr. Jo Vandesompele (Scientific advisor)
Jo Vandesompele currently works at the Centre for Medical Genetics in Ghent University, Belgium. He has (co-)authored over 50 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. He is a key opinion leader in the development methodology and technology in the field of real-time quantitative PCR. Jo has developed bio-informatic tools, such as geNorm, qBase, RTPrimerDB, arrayCGHbase, methBLAST, methPrimerDB, PGE, and Neuroblastome Gene Server. Jo's personal website
 

 

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