News Archive

2008 Aug. 2008: Visit our booth at SPICA conference Visit our exhibition booth on the SPICA 2008 conference (28.9.-1.10.) in Zürich and see how you can reduce your costs for chromatography by 70%

Apr.2008: Meet us on PREP conference Meet us in June 2008 at the 21st International Symposium on Preparative Chromatography PREP08 in San José, CA. ChromaCon is co-authoring contributions together with LONZA ("Model-based Optimization of a 2-step Chromatographic Peptide Purification"), ROCHE ("Exploit Modeling for 'Quality by Design' of a Polypeptide Purification: From Process Optimization to Design Space") and MERCK SERONO ("Purification of Monoclonal Antibodies: Performance Comparison of Batch and Continuous Chromatography").

Jan. 2008: Publication of results of MCSGP-study with Novartis MCSGP-Process shows increase in productivity by 25fold with respect to current batch purification process for a biopharmaceutical in a joint project with NOVARTIS (press release).

Jan. 2008: MCSGP is the SMB for proteins "Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News", interview with director of R&D at Merck KGaA, Germany: "Simulated moving bed chromatography has been scaled up within the last 10 years in the pharmaceutical industry to 1,500 tons of drug enantiomers a year produced by several systems, and the same success story might be possible for the MCSGP technology in the field of peptide and protein separations".

2007 Sep. 2007: ChromaOpt methodology pushes production. ChromaOpt methodology leads to an increase by 20% in yield and 2fold in productivity for a polypeptide purification from undisclosed cooperation partner (press release).

Jul. 2007: ChromaCon obtains 100’000 CHF loan ChromaCon obtains 100'000 CHF loan from Volkswirtschaftsstiftung for financing patent costs and equipment acquisitions.

Jul. 2007: ChromaCon signs exclusive patent license ChromaCon signs an exclusive license contract for the MCSGP-patent with ETH Zürich with undisclosed financial terms.

2006 Dec. 2006: Foundation of ChromaCon as AG (Ltd.) Foundation as ChromaCon AG (Ltd.) in Zürich, Switzerland. ChromaCon is a Spin-Off from the research group of Prof. Morbidelli, Institute for Chemical and Bioengineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

May 2006: ChromaCon ranked Top 5 in Venture 2006 Business plan competition ChromaCon is among the 5 winners of Venture 2006 business plan competition (98 participants, one of the biggest business plan competitions in Switzerland), Venture 2006, (Tagesanzeiger).