Immucor
About Immucor
Immucor is dedicated to offering products that enable patients anywhere who are in need of blood or an organ to receive the right match that is safe, accessible and affordable. The result is life changing for a patient in need of a transfusion or transplant.
Immucor is a leading provider of transfusion and transplantation diagnostic products worldwide. Our new corporate identity illustrates the right match of donors with patients in need of blood or an organ as well as Immucor's partnership with healthcare organizations in need of innovation and productivity. With the right match, we can transform a life together.
Transfusion diagnostics
Immucor's transfusion diagnostics segment develops, manufactures and sells a complete line of serology-based reagents and instruments used by hospitals, reference labs and donor centers to perform pre-transfusion typing and screening of blood. Our products, which help ensure donor-recipient compatibility, deliver accurate, pre-transfusion test results in an efficient and productive way for our customers. Immucor's portfolio of pre-transfusion diagnostics systems includes scalable and flexible automation options to accommodate a variety of operational sizes, volumes and complexities. Immucor has developed molecular typing assays using our multiplex, polymerase chain reaction ("PCR") technology marketed as the BeadChip™ System. Our molecular products are currently available as CE-marked products in Europe and in the U.S. for research-use only.
Transfusion Product Portfolio
- Instruments. Automation that provides fast turnaround times, instant access and features the broadest test menu available using Immucor's exclusive Capture® technology for serology-based antibody screening and identification:
- Echo®, an instrument specially designed for small-to-medium volume laboratories with a bench top footprint; our third generation automation platform.
- NEO®, an instrument specially designed for high-volume laboratories with the highest throughput available in the industry; our fourth generation automation platform.
- Reagents. A complete line of serology-based traditional reagents as well as our exclusive Capture technology.
- Platelets. Platelet antibody products to ensure best compatibility for platelet transfusion.
- Molecular. Our menu of molecular BeadChipTM assays for Red Blood Cell and Platelet provide extended antigen typing to help solve complex compatibility cases. Our molecular assays utilize our Array Imaging SystemTM and our BASISTM database for reading and interpreting assay results.
Transplant diagnostics
Immucor's transplant diagnostics segment develops, manufactures and sells a complete line of assays to perform pre-transplant typing and screening and post-transplant monitoring. Immucor's broad portfolio of molecular and antibody-based assays use ELISA and xMAP® technology to evaluate human leukocyte antigens (HLA) compatibility between donors and recipients and are sold to HLA labs worldwide.
Transplant Product Portfolio:
- HLA Genotyping. Based on the xMAP technology, our molecular typing kits utilize SSO methods to identify HLA alleles present in a locus-specific PCR-amplified sample. Our portfolio also includes SSP typing and SeCore sequence-based typing products.
- Antibody Detection. Our antibody detection products include screening and identification, donor specific antibody identification as well as single antigen and MICA kits and are based on xMAP technology or ELISA.
- Other products include KIR genotyping and serology-based HLA typing trays.
Hemostasis
Immucor's line of Hemostasis products provides useful information to help determine an individual's risk of excessive bleeding or thrombosis.
The company
- Established: 1982, Immucor is a private company owned by TPG Capital
- 2013 Revenue (fiscal year ends May 31): $348 million
- Employees: 1,050 employees worldwide
- Offices: United States, Canada, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom, Japan and India.
Headquarters:
Immucor
3130 Gateway Drive
Norcross, Georgia 30091
855.IMMUCOR
www.immucor.com
info@immucor.com