Trinity Biotech develops, acquires, manufactures and markets over 500 diagnostic products for the point-of-care and clinical laboratory segments of the diagnostic market.

Products & Services
• Test Kits: Used to detect infectious diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, blood coagulation disorders, clinical chemistry and autoimmune diseases.
• Sells Worldwide: Present in over 80 countries through its own salesforce and a network of international distributors and strategic partners.

Clients
• Clinical reference laboratories – globally
• Private clinical laboratories – globally
• Public health laboratories – globally
• Research and university hospital laboratories – globally
• HIV point-of-care centres in the USA and Africa

Standards & Certifications
ISO 13485:2003, ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 9001:2008. FDA PMA approved production facility in Bray, Ireland, FDA approved facilities for production of 510K cleared products, IMB approved facilities for production of CE marked products

Additional Langauges
Spanish, French, German.

Note
Other approved production facilities are located in Jamestown NY, Carlsbad CA, Kansas MO, and Lemgo, Germany.

Contact Name / Title
Micheál Roche, Head Commercial Operations Infectious Disease, Point-of-Care and Clinical Chemistry

Email micheal.roche@trinitybiotech.com

Web www.trinitybiotech.com

Tel +353 1 2769800

Address
One Southern Cross, IDA Business Park, Bray, Co. Wicklow.

Tridelta is a veterinary diagnostic company based in Ireland. The company was formed to identify, acquire, develop and rapidly commercialise novel proprietary technologies that have applications in high margin, high growth segments of the veterinary diagnostic market.

Products & Services
The Phase Range: An extensive range of assays for Acute Phase Proteins (APP) which are used to indicate animal health status. The company is focussing on three main market sectors:
• Academic and Industrial Research: Assays have been used by academic research institutions and major pharmaceutical companies, as part of drug development and toxicity studies.
• Mastitis: Discovered and patented, a new Acute Phase Protein, MAA. The new protein has been shown to be a highly sensitive marker of bovine mastitis.
• Animal Welfare: Recent publications have shown the measurement of Acute Phase Proteins to be a major factor in improving animal welfare and food safety.

Clients
Leading pharmaceutical and research institutions world-wide.

Note
The company currently has licence agreements for novel products with several leading research establishments in Europe and the USA, and is actively looking to expand its product range.

Contact Name / Title
Brian Hett, CEO

Email brianh@trideltaltd.com

Web www.trideltaplc.com

Tel +353 1 6290635

Address
Unit 7 Block F, Maynooth Business Campus, Co. Kildare.

Technopath has grown exponentially through its distribution business into the healthcare and biotechnology sectors. Following a three year R&D programme, Technopath opened a custom built manufacturing facility for the production of medical devices, which has facilitated expansion into new markets including US, Europe and Japan.

Products & Services
• Plasma Components: Quality controls, calibrators and proficiency sera for the clinical diagnostic and bioprocessing clients, with a particular expertise in the stabilisation of labile analytes and production of human lipid extracts.
• Manufactured from Frozen Human Plasma: Using proprietary processing procedures, which allow the development of highly stable serum matrices.
• Range of Liquid Stable, Test Consolidated QC Material: Closely mimics patient samples and provide significant efficiency and cost savings to our customers.

Clients
NHS UK, Health Service Executive Ireland, clinical diagnostic manufacturers and multinational pharmaceutical bio-processors.

Standards & Certifications
GMP, ISO 9000:2000 and CE Mark for IVD. ISO 13485 expected.

Contact Name / Title
Dave Sullivan, Managing Director

Email dave.sullivan@techno-path.com

Web www.techno-path.com

Tel +353 61 335844

Address
Unit 3I-J Fort Henry Business Park, Ballina, Co. Tipperary.

Serosep Ltd. is involved in the research, manufacture and distribution of laboratory diagnostic products in the clinical diagnostics and environmental areas.

Products & Services
• Clinical Diagnostics: Developed a molecular-based diagnostic test to screen for faecal pathogens within 24 hours in clinical microbiology laboratories.
• EntericBio Detects: Campylobacter, E. Coli 0157, Shigella and Salmonella. EntericBio is tipped to become the gold standard test for faecal pathogens.
• HistoPot Pre-Filled Specimen Containers: HistoPots are filled with fixatives such as formalin that are used for the preservation of tissues during transportation within the hospital.
• Water Chemistry Reagents: Precision Reagents, stabilised water chemistry reagents. Used in automatic chemistry analysers, and are stabilised for up to one year.

Clients
Hospital laboratories such as microbiology, hisopathology and environmental laboratories.

Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001 and ISO 13485.

Contact Name / Title
Dermot Scanlon, Managing Director

Email dscanlon@serosep.com

Web www.serosep.com

Tel +353 61 440207

Address
Unit F5, Eastway Business Park, Ballysimon Road, Limerick.

SensL provides OEM customers with innovative low-light detection solutions for analytical and biomedical instruments, homeland security and nuclear medicine markets.

Products & Services

• SensL produces low light detector sub-systems which replace the industry standard vacuum tube-based photomultiplier tube (PMT) in OEM equipment.
• SensL provides full OEM solutions to our customers to simplify the integration of high sensitivity solid-state low light detector technology. This enables customers to innovate and gain a competitive advantage over their competition because SensL’s technology is higher performing, more compact and robust.
Products include the Following:
• Silicon photomultiplier low-light detectors, single photon counting diodes, high resolution timing electronics, data acquisition systems and commercial OEM sub-systems

Clients
Customers are OEMs, R&D labs and academics in the analytical and measurement space, radiation detection and nuclear medicine markets.

Contact Name / Title
Carl Jackson, Founder and Chief Technology Officer

Email cjackson@SensL.com

Web www.SensL.com

Tel +353 21 4350442

Address
Lee House, Riverview Business Park, Bessboro Road, Cork.

Megazyme International Ireland Ltd. develops and supplies diagnostic test kits and reagents for the food, feed, fermentation, wine and dairy industries.

Products & Services
• Test Kits: For the measurements of components such as carbohydrates and enzymes in food, feed, beverages and dairy products.
• Kit Types: Dietary fibre, starch, lactose, enzymes and a wide range of sugars, organic acids and alcohols in wine and other products.
• Other Analytical Reagents: Including pure polysaccharides, oligosaccharides, enzymes and substrates for measurement of enzyme activity are also supplied.

Clients
Most blue chip food, wine, enzyme and dairy companies including Kraft, Kellogg, Unilever, Proctor & Gamble, Heinz, Guinness, DSM, Danisco, Novozymes, Fosters, Hardys, Universities, research and analytical laboratories worldwide.

Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001:2000. Seven of the Megazyme methods are official or recommended procedures of AOAC International and AACC International. An eighth is currently under international evaluation.

Contact Name / Title
Barry McCleary, CEO

Email barry@megazyme.com

Web www.megazyme.com

Tel +353 1 2861220

Address
Bray Business Park, Southern Cross Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow.

Luxcel Biosciences Ltd. is an award winning Irish biotechnology company developing highly innovative sensors and instrumentation for food safety, ‘smart’ packaging and pharmaceutical R&D. Luxcel sensors provide highly informative results faster, more easily and more cost effectively than competing technologies.

Products & Services
• Food Safety: Rapid food safety tests for ‘same-day’ detection of bacterial contamination by monitoring changes in oxygen and pH levels. They are faster, easier to use, with higher throughput capabilities than competing products.
• Packaging: Luxcel developed sensors for monitoring of potentially improper oxygen levels within food, beverage and pharmaceutical packaging.
• Drug Discovery: Pharmaceutical companies use Luxcel sensors in developing new therapeutic drugs. These are used as a highly selective screen for drug toxicity. Provide results in days instead of the typical three months using standard methodology

Clients
Large pharmaceutical and biotech companies, meat processing industry, research institutes and universities, R&D companies.

Additional Langauges
Dutch

Contact Name / Title
Fred Klok Administrative Services

Email info@luxcel.com

Web www.luxcel.com

Tel +353 21 4901447

Address
Biotransfer Unit, Suite 3.32, BioInnovation Centre, University College Cork.

Enzolve Technologies is engaged in the research, development, design and commercialisation of in vitro diagnostics using its own specialist, high-end, value proprietary enzymes.

Products & Services
• Phenylketonuria (PKU) screening kit: Enzolve’s first CE marked in vitro diagnostic product. This is part of the ‘NeoScreenPak’ single-format test-package which will be used to screen for seven of the eleven most commonly screened disorders affecting newborns.
• Enzolve’s one-step tests are faster, more reliable, convenient and cost-effective than tests available on the market.
• The company plans to use its engineered enzymes in the further development of clinical diagnostics, and as “biocatalysts” in asymmetric synthesis.
• The company also provides consultancy and biochemical services to diagnostic and pharmaceutical companies in enzyme research.

Standards & Certifications
ISO 13485:2003, IVDD 98/79/EC.

Additional Langauges
Armenian and Russian.

Contact Name / Title
Suren Aghajanian, CEO

Email info@enzolve.com

Web www.enzolve.com

Tel +353 1 7163633

Address
Belfield Innovation Park, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4.

Enfer develops and manufactures rapid diagnostic tests for a range of livestock diseases including transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) and Johnes (ParaTB), and a breakthrough bovine TB diagnostic test.

Products & Services
• Enfer is committed to providing accurate, cost-effective diagnostics to improve the health and well-being of animals.
• Engaged in an extensive R&D programme to develop a range of products for the large animal veterinary diagnostic sector, targeting a number of diseases which cause major economic losses and for which there are no commercially available rapid diagnostic tests.
• Diagnostic instrumentation is also provided.

Standards & Certifications
ISO 9001:2000

Contact Name / Title
Martin Crowley, Finance Director

Email info@enfergroup.com

Web www.enfergroup.com

Tel +353 45 983800

Address
Unit T, M7 Business Park, Newhall, Naas, Co. Kildare.

Biosensia develops rapid, easy to use, multiplexing, quantitative, point-of-care in vitro diagnostics (IVD) platforms. They combine innovative in vitro diagnostic technologies to enable access to a broad range of diagnostic applications at the point-of-care.

Products & Services
• RapiPlex: A multiplexing platform which can perform simultaneous diagnostic tests for a variety of different ailments from a single patient sample (blood, saliva, urine) at the point-of-care.
• RapiPlex is also suitable for use in the detection of drugs abuse, infectious disease and cardiac markers as well as in other markets such as environmental and food and beverage testing.

Additional Langauges
German, Irish.

Contact Name / Title
Diarmuid Flavin, Chief Operations Officer

Email diarmuid.flavin@biosensia.com

Web www.biosensia.com

Tel +353 1 7163650

Address
Unit 1.16, NovaUCD, University College Dublin, Belfield Campus, Dublin 4.