Whatman is now part of GE Healthcare, creating a centre of excellence in separation technology.GE Healthcare announces the acquisition of Whatman - sample preparation and filtration technologies experts. Whatman’s product offerings are highly complementary with GE Healthcare’s own Life Sciences business; combining the skills and knowledge of the two businesses will create significant added value for customers. GE Healthcare’s Life Sciences business is a world-class provider of technologies for cellular and protein science research, and is a key area of growth. Expanding our skill base and product offerings in this area supports the Early Health vision of aiding earlier diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
Whatman has key enabling technologies used in the understanding of gene and protein functions, with a reputation, based on a solid foundation of expertise, that will prove a great fit for GE Life Sciences business, as it brings new technologies fundamental to helping researchers increase their understanding of the role of genes and proteins in disease. Combining the skills of the two companies will enable GE Healthcare to create strong added value for customers in biomedical and drug discovery research.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare’s broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological, and other conditions earlier. Our vision for the future is to enable a new “early health” model of care, focused on earlier diagnosis, pre-symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a US$17 billion unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE). Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit our website at www.gehealthcare.com
About Whatman
A global leader in filtration technology, Whatman provides innovative life science products to the scientific community. Whatman has developed total sample preparation solutions through its robust line of filtration devices and membranes. The company’s breakthrough protein array technology and FTA® technology to capture, archive and purify DNA at room temperature enables it to provide novel solutions for the analytical, healthcare and bioscience markets. For more information please visit www.whatman.com | 
