Invitrogen

Invitrogen
Company typeSubsidiary
Nasdaq: IVGN
Founded1987; 37 years ago (1987)
SuccessorLife Technologies Edit this on Wikidata
HeadquartersWaltham, Massachusetts, U.S.
Key people
Marc N. Casper (president & CEO)
ParentThermo Fisher Scientific

Invitrogen is one of several brands under the Thermo Fisher Scientific corporation. The product line includes various subbrands of biotechnology products, such as machines and consumables for polymerase chain reaction, reverse transcription, cloning, culturing, stem cell production, cell therapy, regenerative medicine, immunotherapy, transfection, DNA/RNA purification, diagnostic tests, antibodies, and immunoassays.

The predecessor corporation was Invitrogen Corporation (formerly traded as NasdaqIVGN), headquartered in Carlsbad, California. In 2008, a merger between Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen[1] was finalized, creating Life Technologies. The latter was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in 2014.

  1. ^ "Invitrogen News". Archived from the original on 2008-12-27. Retrieved 2009-08-05..