Invitrogen

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Invitrogen

Company type	Subsidiary
Traded as	Nasdaq: IVGN
Founded	1987; 37 years ago (1987)
Successor	Life Technologies
Headquarters	Waltham, Massachusetts, U.S.
Key people	Marc N. Casper (president & CEO)
Parent	Thermo 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 Nasdaq: IVGN), 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.