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Press Release - for immediate release

16 June 2008

New California-based Associate Director joins The Automation Partnership

New California-based Associate Director joins The Automation Partnership

The Automation Partnership (TAP) is pleased to announce it that Susan Baird has joined its US Commercial Team as Associate Director. Susan strengthens TAP's US presence and offers direct, local contact with key accounts based in California and throughout the West Coast.

Susan has over 16 years' commercial experience of advising and supporting scientists within the biotech and pharma industry. She has a strong science/cell culture background, with a degree in Molecular Genetics from The Ohio State University and has worked within several major companies marketing life science platforms including Life Technologies (Invitrogen) and Amersham (GE). Most recently she has worked for Molecular Devices as a Drug Discovery Specialist.

Ian Ransome, Sales Director at TAP commented, "We are delighted to add Susan's breadth of technical and commercial strengths to our US Commercial Group and are confident that her knowledge and professional approach to the business of automating life science research applications will result in an excellent level of service for our existing and potential US customers.

The West Coast of the USA represents a strong growth region for TAP, where its fully automated cell culture systems such as CompacT SelecT, have been implemented in biotechs and pharma in areas such as discovery and regenerative medicine.

For further information, please contact:

York Way, Royston, Hertfordshire, SG8 5WY, UK
Tel: +44 1763 227200 Fax: +44 1763 227201

For more information on CompacT SelecT, visit:

http://www.automationpartnership.com/tap/cell_culture/compact_select.htm

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