About ATLAS Biolabs
Company Profile - ATLAS Biolabs
ATLAS Biolabs GmbH is a leading provider of microarray
based genomic services such as genome wide gene expression
and SNP analysis, CGH analysis and diagnostic services. Customers include
registered doctors, hospitals, and pharmaceutical,
biotechnological as well as diagnostic enterprises in the European market.
As an Affymetrix Authorized Service Provider, ATLAS Biolabs
offers an unprecedented throughput, ensures
high quality and cost effective results. Its high performance
data processing and bioinformatics ensures professional
handling (storage, analysis, data mining) of the large
resulting amounts of data.
Our goal is to allow everyone personal insight into ancestry,
genealogy, and inherited traits. To achieve this goal, ATLAS Biolabs
is building on recent advances in molecular genetic analysis
technologies to enable secure access to accurate individual
genetic information.
Founders
Prof. Dr. Peter Nürnberg
CEO, head of the Cologne Center for Genomics of the University of Cologne, spokesman of the Genotyping Platform of the NGFN,
president of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Gendiagnostik e.V.
(society for gene diagnostics)
Dr. Bernd Drescher
former head of the informatics/bioinformatics
department at RZPD
Prof. Dr. Hans Lehrach
director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics,
Berlin, member of the Project Committee of the National Genome
Research Network (NGFN), co-founder of the RZPD, former head
of RZPD's scientific advisory board
Prof. Dr. André Rosenthal
founder, chairman of the board and majority shareholder of
Signature Diagnostics AG
Further Shareholders
Dipl.Wi.Ing. Rolf König
founder, owner, and CEO of Labor 28, a diagnostic laboratory in Berlin.
Dr. med. Roman M. Skoblo
founder, owner, and CEO of IFLB Institute of Laboratory Diagnostics Berlin, a diagnostic laboratory in Berlin.
Prof. Dr. med. Gundula Thiel
owner and head of Praxis für Humangenetik in Berlin, Medical Director of ATLAS Biolabs GmbH
Key personnel
Dr. Florian Wagner
head of microarray service unit, former head of RZPD‘s microarray service unit
Dr. Karsten R. Heidtke
head of informatics/bioinformatics unit, former Senior Scientist Bioinformatics at RZPD
History
ATLAS Biolabs is a spin off of both the RZPD and the Cologne Center for Genomics (CCG) from the University of Cologne, which
have hybridized thousands of Affymetrix GeneChips™ in many national and international projects.
ATLAS Biolabs has taken over the key personnel from the CCG as well as key personnel, hardware and data analysis software
from the RZPD microarray facility in the course of an asset deal/"Teilbetriebsübergang". It was founded in September 2006 with
headquarters in Cologne. ATLAS Biolabs GmbH started its operative
business at its Berlin subsidiary, located at the Ärztezentrum
147, Friedrichstraße, in the summer of 2007.
ISO 9001 service at ATLAS Biolabs is always oriented along internal quality rules which guarantee a constant quality of our work.
