| Abaxis | Point-of-care blood analyzers |
| Abbott Point of Care (i-STAT) | Point-of-care blood analyzers |
| ACEA Bioscience | Microelectronic systems for cell-based assays |
| Advalytics | Product group of Beckman Coulter developing single-cell analysis platforms |
| Advanced Liquid Logic | Lab-on-a-chip microfluidic devices using electronic fluid control for immunoassays, PCR, clinical chemistry, sample preparation and more |
| Advion | Bioanalytical contract research organization and developer of microfluidics systems for chemistry and biochemistry applications |
| Affymetrix | Highly parallel genetic assays (DNA microarrays) |
| Agilent | Commercial microfluidic Lab-on-a-Chip technology enabling sample handling, mixing, dilution, electrophoresis and chromatographic separation, staining and detection on single integrated systems |
| Akonni Biosystems | Develops, manufactures, and markets integrated molecular diagnostic systems |
| Applied BioPhysics | Tools for cell research and drug discovery |
| ArrayJet | Production of high quality microarrays with inkjet technology for life sciences R&D |
| Artemis Health | Noninvasive prenatal diagnostics |
| Becton Dickinson | Develops, manufactures and sells medical supplies, devices, laboratory instruments, antibodies, reagents and diagnostic products |
| Bellbrook Laboratories | Drug discovery technologies for the pharmaceutical industry, including microfluidic cell culture systems and high throughput biochemical assays |
| Biodot | Supplier of system tools for the research, development and commercialization of diagnostic tests |
| BiofluidiX | Non-contact, nanoliter to microliter liquid handling devices mainly for life science applications, with a strong focus on micro arrays and well plate technology |
| BioForce Nanosciences | Develops and commercializes nanotech instruments, consumables, and applications for the life sciences |
| BioMicro Systems | Biological research products based on microfluidic handling technologies |
| Bionas | Microfluidic systems for live cell analysis |
| Bioscale | Ultra-sensitive biological measurements |
| Biosite | Diagnostic products for laboratory medicine |
| BioTray | Microtechnology for Life Science & Chemisty Applications |
| BioTrove | Platform technologies for high-throughput assays for pharma and genomics |
| Boehringer Ingelheim Microparts | Works with international diagnostics companies to develop microfluidic applications in fields such as hematology, microbiology, DNA assays, high-throughput screening, biochemistry and immunology |
| Boston Microfluidics | Rapid, single use, self-contained sexually transmitted disease in vitro diagnostics |
| Caliper Life Sciences | Microfluidics, lab automation & liquid handling, optical imaging technologies, and discovery & development outsourcing solutions |
| Cambridge Biomagnetics | Magnetic lab-on-a-chip devices combining microfluidic channels with advanced magnetic sensors |
| Capilix | Modular sensor solutions based on lab-on-glass-chip technology, with a focus on microchip capillary electrophoresis |
| Cardiomems | Proprietary wireless sensing and communication technology for the human body that can be implanted using minimally invasive techniques and transmit cardiac output, blood pressure and heart rate data |
| Cellasic | Microfluidic platforms for cell and tissue based applications |
| CEA Laboratory of Electronics and Information Technologies (LETI) | Nanobiotechnologies and biochips devoted to analyzing the genome; lab-on-a-chip devices for rapid, miniaturized in vitro diagnosis and microsystems used to analyze living cells and handle them individually |
| Cellectricon | Real-time cell-based screening devices for applications in biotechnology, biomedical research and drug discovery |
| Cellix | Microfluidic drug screening tools |
| Cepheid | Molecular diagnostics for genetic analysis in the clinical, industrial and biothreat markets |
| Clondiag | Point-of-care diagnostics and microarrays for professional lab diagnostics |
| Coventor | Software tools for the development of MEMS, microfluidic and semiconductor structures, devices and processes |
| Cytonome | Clinical grade optical cell sorting |
| Cytoo | Chips for micropatterned cell culture |
| Dalsa | MEMS foundry |
| Debiotech | Diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices |
| Diagnostics for All | Non-profit enterprise creating low-cost, point-of-care microfluidic diagnostics for the developing world |
| Dolomite Microfluidics | Microfluidic components as well as custom designed microfluidic devices |
| Eksigent | HPLC systems and medical devices |
| Epigem | Polymer-based microengineering, including lab-on-a-chip microfluidic devices and micro-optical products |
| Evotec | Discovery and development of novel small-molecule drugs |
| Fluidigm | Microfluidic systems based on integrated fluidic circuits (IFCs) for life science applications such as molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine |
| Fluigent | Tools for flow control in micro-channels and genetic testing in capillaries and chips |
| Fluxion Biosciences | Live cell assays and automated patch clamp |
| GeSiM (Gesellschaft für Silizium-Mikrosysteme) | Microsystems and instrumentation specializing in low-volume liquid handling for the life sciences |
| Gyros | Automated micro-immunoassays for therapeutic protein development |
| Habsel | Water-droplet-in-oil emulsion based microfluidics technology to develop ultra high througput screening for antibodies/proteins/peptide agents against human pathogens |
| Helicos Bioscences | Genetic analysis technologies for the research, drug discovery, and diagnostic markets |
| Hewlett-Packard Research Labs | Research conducted in 19 labs and focused on eight broad themes: Analytics, Cloud, Content transformation, Digital commercial print, Immersive interaction, Information management, Intelligent infrastructure and Sustainability |
| IBM Zurich Research Labs | The research projects pursued at IBM Research - Zurich are organized into five scientific and technical departments: Computer Science, Mathematical & Computational Sciences, Storage Technologies, Systems, and Science & Technology. |
| IMT - Institute of Microchemical Technology | Supplier of off-the-shelf and custom microfluidic chips |
| Incept BioSystems | Microscale technologies that address infertility |
| Intellisense | CAD tools for MEMS, including BioMEMS and microfluidics |
| ITC Mems | Consortium of industry and government, offering design, fabrication, packaging, and testing solutions for MEMS |
| JENOPTIK Laser, Optik, Systeme | Manufacturing systems for polymeric microcomponents and nanostructures |
| Labcyte | Assay miniaturization and automation, low-volume liquid handling for the life sciences |
| LabSmith | Laboratory research tools, including breadboard-based microfluidics construction kits |
| Life BioScience | Off-the-shelf microfluidic and microsystems components for researchers; also offers custom microfabrication |
| LTF - Little Things Factory | Microsandblasting on glass, silicon and other brittle materials. Micro-structured glass and silicon for standard or custom microreactors |
| Medspray | Microtechnology spray nozzle units for near-mono-disperse aqueous inhaler devices |
| Medtronic | Implantable medical devices, including drug pumps |
| Micralyne | MEMS foundry services, including design and fabrication of microfluidic chips and devices for life sciences |
| Microchip Biotechnologies | Integrated systems enabling microsample preparation and analysis for the life sciences |
| MicroCHIPS | Intelligent implanted medical devices for applications such as drug delivery and glucose monitoring |
| Microdrop Technologies | Provider of equipment, software and services for advanced micro-dispensing and inkjet printing applications |
| Microfluidic ChipShop | Custom and off-the-shelf microfluidic systems for applications in the analytical sciences, biotechnology, cosmetics, diagnostics, drug screening, chemistry, environmental applications, monitoring, food analysis, and medical technology |
| Microfluidic Systems | Automated instruments for the detection and processing of biological samples |
| microLIQUID | Development of polymer microfluidic products and services |
| Micronics | Microfluidic, near-patient, in vitro diagnostic products for disease diagnosis, prognosis and treatment monitoring |
| Micronit | Glass-based lab-on-a-chip components and products for the life sciences and chemistry research markets |
| Millipore | Technologies, tools, and services for bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing |
| Mode Diagnostics | Diagnostics integrating biosensing and electronics for the home-based point-of-care markets |
| Molecular Vision | Diagnostic devices combine microfluidic chips with organic-semiconductor light-sources and photodetectors |
| Nanion Technologies | Bio- and microtechnology for increasing the speed and efficiency of drug discovery, in particular High Throughput Screening systems for ion channel active drugs |
| Nanobiosym | Lab-on-a-chip diagnostics such as Gene-RADAR, a device resembling a mobile phone that has the ability to analyze biofluids such as a drop of blood or saliva and identifies DNA and RNA signatures |
| Nanobiowave | Diagnostic biochips |
| Nanopoint Imaging | Microfluidics platform integrated with live cell imaging capabilities, used for applications such as assisted reproductive technology, drug discovery, cell culturing, and other life science research |
| Nanosphere | Nanotechnology-based healthcare company that manufactures Verigene, a microfluidics product capable of analyzing DNA directly from a blood sample |
| Nanoterra | A nano- and micro-technology development company commercializing the inventions of co-founder and Chairman Professor George Whitesides from Harvard University and a world-wide network of complementary innovations |
| NextAdvance | Laboratory instruments for life sciences research, also technical consulting for microfluidics and fluid mechanics, biotech instrumentation, and mechanical and electrical engineering design |
| PerkinElmer | Diagnostics and instrumentation for life sciences research |
| Proteus Biomedical | Microchip-enabled drug delivery and therapeutic devices |
| Qiagen | Sample and assay technologies for molecular diagnostics laboratories, academic research, pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and applied testing markets such as forensics, animal or food testing |
| Raindance Technologies | Microdroplet-based solutions for human health and disease research |
| Scienion | Ultra-low volume liquid handling systems and microarray technologies for multiparallel bioanalytics, high throughput screening and high throughput production of microarrays in the genomics and proteomics fields |
| Seahorse Bioscience | Analytical instruments, biomanufacturing systems and consumable labware products for biological research and drug discovery |
| Sensimed | Integrated microsystems for medical devices; SENSIMED Triggerfish® device for continuous measurement of intraocular pressure in glaucoma |
| Shimadzu Biotech | Technologies to aid the protein research work flow and drug discovery |
| Siemens | Instrumentation for life sciences, medical diagnostics |
| Silex Microsystems | Foundry services for MEMS/Microfluidics |
| Siloam Biosciences | Point-of-care clinical diagnostic systems using microfluidic and microsensor technology |
| SpinX Technologies | Programmable microfluidics platform, with applications ranging from drug discovery to consumer diagnostics |
| SurModics | Drug delivery and surface modification technologies for the healthcare industry |
| T2 Biosystems | Medical diagnostic platform using nanotechnology and miniaturized magnetic resonance (MR) |
| Technobiochip | Basic research, development and production of laboratory instruments n electronics, microelectronics, biology and biotechnology |
| ThinXXS | Develops, produces and distributes micro-structured components and systems made of plastics, with a focus on microfluidics |
| Tronics Microsystems | Develops and manufactures custom MEMS components and microsystems |
| US Genomics | Commercial applications of single molecule DNA, RNA and protein analysis |
| Wasatch Microfluidics | Microfluidic devices that enable the development of pharmaceutical diagnostics and therapeutics; Wasatch’s first product, the Continuous Flow Microspotter (CFM), is a printer that uses a network of microchannels to deposit biomolecules on surfaces for interaction analysis |
| Weidmann Plastics | Injection molding of plastic for microfluidic and microoptical structures |
Listing of microfluidics companies
Below is a list I’ve put together of microfluidics / lab-on-a-chip / bioMEMS companies worldwide. The list is meant to be broad and inclusive, so there is a mix of companies: some make point-of-care diagnostics or laboratory tools, while others are foundries or supply microfluidic / bioMEMS components. Please contact me by e-mail if you are aware of companies that haven’t been included. Last edited: January 19, 2010
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Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-chip Companies