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Who We Are

A fun group of scientists, engineers, developers, and business people with the goal to make bioprocessing simpler. 

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What We Do

We have introduced 'Digitally Simplified Bioprocessing' so you can monitor every point of interest when and where it matters. 

Digitally

Miniaturized Smart Sensors

Powerful Software

Simplified

Automated and Real-time

Actionable insights

Bioprocessing

Microbial & Mammalian

Shake Flasks & Bioreactors

Our Story

Fluorometrix Corp

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Like many good stories, ours began when one researcher pursued his fascination — to connect the environment of the cell with its metabolic behavior — and shared his research with experts and practitioners in the biotech industry. Fluorometrix Corp was formed by Drs. Rao and Joe Qualitz of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop fundamental patents on optical sensors for monitoring dissolved oxygen, pH, CO₂, and glucose.

Scientific Industries (SI)

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Scientific Industries (SI) – creator of the ubiquitous Vortex-Genie® – acquires Fluorometrix and changes the company name to Scientific Bioprocessing Inc. (sbi). It was the vision of SI’s Chairman, Mr. Joe Cremonese, to combine SI’s expertise in creating optimal cell growth environments with the sbi optical sensor technology to make the lives of cell scientists and bioprocess engineers easier and more productive with a faster trajectory to critical research results.

aquila biolabs Founded

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In 2014, Jens Bayer, Daniel Grünes, Konrad Herzog, and David Frank, a dynamic group of young entrepreneurs and biotechnologists co-founded aquila biolabs and launched the Cell Growth Quantifier (CGQ), which revolutionized biomass monitoring in countless laboratories.

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sbi and aquila biolabs join forces and introduce a new era of Digitally Simplified Bioprocessing. Through a combined network of sensors and actuators alongside a powerful software, researchers can gain actionable insights into their bioprocess when and where it matters most.

The DOTS Platform

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We offer the DOTS Platform to bring bioreactor-like shake flasks into your laboratory. Advanced sensing and control options in shake flasks allow for simpler handling and lower costs than similar fermentation platforms. Start now and build a smarter shake flask - one parameter at a time.

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Our Executive Team

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    Daniel

    Grünes

    PRESIDENT & CEO
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    Teresa

    Schwenke

    VP OF OPERATIONS
  • Jens_sw_kontur

    Jens

    Bayer

    VP OF MARKETING

    & SALES

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    David

    Frank

    VP OF DEVELOPMENT
    & PRODUCTION
  • Konrad_sw_kontur

    Konrad

    Herzog

    VP OF RESEARCH
  • Marc_sw_kontur

    Marc

    Vonhoegen

    VP OF FINANCE & TAXATION

Hear What Our Customers Are Saying

Discover the difference our technology has made for our customers.
Real-time, actionable insights can have a significant impact on your mammalian cell culture or microbial fermentation experiments and biomanufacturing.

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"The CGQ provided accurate growth curves with very dense sampling intervals and gave us the opportunity to identify differences in growth behaviors."

- Prof. Dr. Lars Blank (RWTH Aachen)

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"The backscatter data we gathered here with the CGQ system clearly shows a match with another growth characterisation parameter, in this case with the oxygen transfer rate (OTR)."

- Frédéric Lapierre (HS München)

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"The CGQ BioR system provides precise growth curves with a very dense sampling interval, freeing my team for tasks with higher added value"

- Dipl. Ing. Andreas Hoffman (Technical University Dresden)

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"With the LIS, I was able to recreate typical bioreactor processes, like fed-batch cultivations, in shake flasks."

- Dr. Victor Pozzobon (Chaire de Biotechnologie, CentraleSupélec)

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"The CGQ BioR is well suited for monitoring biomass of cultivations with thermophilic organisms that require high temperatures and long fermentation times."

- Dipl. Ing. Robert Klausser (IBD Group, TU Wien)

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