bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, announced today the opening of an office in Dublin, Ireland to support its extensive Irish customer base of clinical, food and pharmaceutical laboratories. As part of its ongoing international development, the new office highlights bioMérieux’
The bioMérieux team will be located at NovaUCD, the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at University College Dublin. A great emphasis will be placed on training, making use of the University’s excellent conference and laboratory facilities. Drawing on the microbiology expertise available through the UCD Centre for Food Safety at the UCD Veterinary Sciences Centre, bioMérieux will provide training programmes, seminars and ‘hands-on’
bioMérieux established a research collaboration 18 months ago with the internationally recognised UCD Centre for Food Safety, working on the neonatal pathogen Cronobacter sakazakii. The presence of this bacterium in infant food products, including powdered milk, can cause meningitis, sepsis and other serious infections, primarily in newborn or premature infants.
As part of the official office opening, bioMérieux held a series of parallel seminars for Irish customers at NovaUCD followed by a plenary session to introduce bioMérieux’
