Brahms (company)
| Thermo Fisher Scientific, B · R · A · H · M · S GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1994 |
| Seat | Hennigsdorf near Berlin, Germany |
| management | Christophe Fraudeau, Ralf Schlegel, Piet van der Zande, managing directors |
| Number of employees | 470 (2011) |
| Branch | biotechnology |
| Website | Brahms GmbH website |
The Brahms GmbH (proper notation B · R · A · H · M · S GmbH ) belongs to Group Thermo Fisher Scientific and works in in-vitro diagnostics. She researches, develops and produces biomarkers for sepsis, cardiovascular, lung and tumor diseases as well as prenatal early diagnosis . The products are sold in more than 130 countries. Brahms GmbH is based in Hennigsdorf near Berlin , and employs 300 people there.
history
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The establishment of Brahms GmbH goes back to the first management buy-out of the German pharmaceutical industry. The department heads of the diagnostics division of Henning Berlin / Marion Merrel Dow drove the spin-off of the entire company division. The name "B · R · A · H · M · S" is made up of the first letters of the founders' first names. At that time, the company was still operating under the name Brahms Diagnostica GmbH in Berlin-Tempelhof . Brahms was in the black from the start and did not have to rely on venture capitalists to keep business going. Research and development are financed from our own sales.
The company's growth soon brought the company's headquarters in Tempelhof to the limit of its capacity. In 2000, Brahms therefore moved to the technology center in Hennigsdorf. In the 2000s, Brahms founded the biotechnology companies InVivo, InVent, Bioassays, LAD and Sphingotec as part of spin-offs , most of which are still located in the technology center in Hennigsdorf.
Brahms GmbH is involved in research collaborations with various universities. 2003, the company co-founded, for example, with the Schering AG and the Experimental Endocrinology of the Berlin Charité , the Endocrine Research Center (EnForCé) at the Charité.
Brahms GmbH was taken over by the US company Thermo Fisher Scientific at the end of 2009 .
Products
Brahms GmbH is a specialist in the field of in-vitro diagnostics . The company researches, develops and sells immunassays for the determination of antibodies and proteins in the blood of patients. For historical reasons, as a former part of the thyroid company Henning Berlin, Brahms is a leader in the field of thyroid diagnostics. The best-known product is the TRAK -Assay for the determination of antibodies against the TSH receptor in Graves' disease . Brahms GmbH is the world market leader here with an assay that has been described in clinical studies.
In 1995 the company introduced procalcitonin (PCT), a biomarker for the early detection of sepsis . Other products are tumor markers and immunassays for prenatal screening .
Since 2001 Brahms GmbH has also been a manufacturer and distributor of a fully automatic laboratory machine (KRYPTOR). This automat was developed together with the French company Cezanne and is based on a luminescence technology for which the French chemist Jean-Marie Lehn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 .
The research activities of Brahms GmbH concentrate on biomarkers in intensive care medicine and endocrinology or pneumology and cardiology . There are also scientific collaborations with universities in Europe, the USA and Asia.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imprint of the web site brahms.de ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 16, 2013)
- ^ Brahms AG - economic data . www.brahms.de. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
- ↑ Economic data Brahms AG
- ↑ Kryptor Programm ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 429 kB)
- ^ Nobel e-museum, Jean-Marie Lehn
- ↑ New solutions for emergency medicine ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Press release 2008.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 37 ′ 58 " N , 13 ° 12 ′ 39" E