About MicroVacuum

MicroVacuum Ltd. is a Hungarian corporation. The headquarters and the research lab are located in Budapest, Hungary.

MicroVacuum is the leader in the R&D and production of optical grating coupler waveguide based label-free, real-time biosensor devices and sensor chips. The OWLS technology enables high-sensitivity, real-time detection of surface adsorption of molecules and the determination of the affinity and kinetics of a wide variety of molecular interactions without the need for a molecular tag or label.

MicroVacuum develops, manufactures and markets its OW sensors and OWLS devices for customers world-wide.

Commitment to innovation: the profitable exploitation of new ideas is widely recognized as being one of the key success factors in gaining competitive advantage in the global marketplace. MicroVacuum has a 20-year of history of on-going innovation in sensor and instrumentation technology.

Commitment to quality: Innovation must go hand-in-hand with product quality to be truly useful, reliable and to that effect MicroVacuum is ISO9001 certified having received ISO 9001 Quality System Certification in October 1997. This quality management system ensures the continued competitiveness and makes it possible to provide products and services in accordance with all customer requirements.

Commitment to customers: MicroVacuum is committed to continuous enhancement of its existing product and developing new products. Feedback from the customers drives the development processes.

Commitment to International Research and Collaboration: MicroVacuum is an active participant in several international R&D projects. For the current list of the R&D projects, please visit http://www.microvacuum.com/research

Industries

• Life science research labs (biochemistry, biomaterial, bioelectronics)
• Food safety
• Pharma / Drug development
• Environmental protection

OWLS applications

• Adsorption of proteins at surfaces
• Ligand / receptor binding (antibody/antigen)
• Immunosensing
• Drug screening
• Protein - lipid bilayer interactions
• Protein - DNA interactions
• Molecular self-assembly & nanoscience
• Analysis of association and dissociation kinetics
• Kinetics of adhesion, growth and spreading of living cells

To learn more, visit the Application section of the website