Essen Bioscience

Essen BioScience (part of Sartorius), is a team of engineers and biologists with deep expertise in cell-based assays. We invent, manufacture, supply and support cell-based assay instrumentation, reagents and protocols. We are a rapidly growing mid-size global biotechnology company, headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan USA, with satellite sites in the UK and Japan. Privately owned and founded in 1999, our inventions include FLIPR and IonWorks, two laboratory instruments that revolutionized industrial screening approaches to G-protein coupled receptor and ion channel target drug discovery. In 2006, Essen launched a third ground breaking platform technology, IncuCyte, a live cell imaging device that resides within a standard cell culture incubator. The latest generation system IncuCyte S3, allows researchers to make time-lapsed fully kinetic measurements from living cells over days and weeks thus enabling true long term phenotypic assays. Our cell imaging and electrophysiology products are used in academic and industrial laboratories throughout the world. In addition to direct product sales, we provide flexible outsourcing options enabling customer access to our assay technologies and expertise via our discovery service teams. Through the integrated design of instrumentation, reagents, consumables and assay protocols, our goal is to advance life science research through more informative cell-based assay solutions.