GE Healthcare Life Sciences, a global tools, technologies and services provider in life science research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing, will open a Technology and Training Laboratory in Turkey. A key component of GE's Turkey Innovation Center in Istanbul, the laboratory will open to customers, industry, and academic partners from mid-2015. This adds to GE's global network of biopharmaceutical customer training and technology facilities in the US, UK, China, India, and Sweden.

The GE Healthcare Life Sciences Technology Laboratory will feature the company's latest tools and technologies for drug discovery, protein science, and bioprocessing research. It will offer advanced technical training and technology evaluation to the Turkish biopharmaceutical sector as well as being open to universities as a location for elements of biotechnology degree courses. Academics and pharmaceutical and biotechnology researchers will also have access to the laboratory for small-scale research studies using the GE equipment as will GE customers from the Middle East and Russia.

Source: GE Healthcare Life Sciences