Seppo Mäkinen

SpinX designs and develops products which exploit its innovative adaptive microfluidics technology. The firm's platform offers a fully integrated solution which drastically reduces manual work, while avoiding complex and costly robotics, and can be used in a wide variety of applications, from drug discovery to consumer diagnostics. The reduced consumption of samples, reagents and other consumables enables increased throughput and results in significant cost savings. Additionally, the platform enables sophisticated interleaved liquid handling and detection steps not possible with other systems. SpinX is an international, multidisciplinary - but highly focused - team with world-class competences in microfludics, opto-electronics, molecular biology, biochemistry and software. The founders of SpinX Technologies, Bart Van de Vyver, Ph.D and Piero Zucchelli, Ph.D., worked together for 10 years on various research projects at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. They have conducted leading-edge academic research in particle physics and instrumentation and managed numerous state-of-the-art research projects. The SpinX Board of Directors and Advisory Board include experts from Europe and the United States, from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines covering drug discovery, diagnostics, microfluidics and physics.

EMD Millipore Corp. engages in the provision of laboratory materials, technologies, and services to the life science industry. The company was founded by Jack Bush in 1954 and is headquartered in Burlington, MA.