Cytena
CYTENA, the premier provider of single-cell dispensers, liquid handlers and live cell analyzers, started out in 2014 as a spin-off from the Laboratory for MEMS Applications and the Hahn-Schickard Institute in Freiburg, Germany. In 2019, CYTENA joined the world’s leading bioconvergence company BICO, which encompasses 1000+ colleagues and 13 companies and offers a portfolio of technologies, products and services to create the future of medicine.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Pharmaceuticals
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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About Us
We are Creating the Future of Medicine
By providing the finest biosciences technologies to scientists and lab technicians around the world, CYTENA is creating the future of medicine. We aim to deliver automated and highly efficient lab workflows for improved cell line development, microbiome, live cell imaging, liquid handling and omics applications that enable new discoveries in areas such as drug development and health care research. We believe in world class technologies for groundbreaking science.
Our Technologies
The UP.SIGHT, our newest offering, combines CYTENA’s patented, fast, gentle and widely recognized single-cell dispensing technology with a high quality imaging system, leading to a probability of clonality >99.999%.
Driven by our vision to create the future of medicine, we continuously develop technologies and products for sorting and analyzing single and multicell applications, such as single-cell omics, liquid handling, cell imaging and cell line development. We are pleased that most of the worlds top pharmaceutical companies use our instruments in their cell line development workflows.
Why We Are Different
Team spirit
People around you make the difference. They are the ones who drive, challenge and encourage you. It was only through our combined efforts that we achieved what constitutes CYTENA today. This is what makes us one great team. That is why it is especially important to us that new team members fit in with our team. As a unified international and cross-functional team, we take CYTENA to the next level on a daily basis!
Modern start-up culture
We are open minded, driven and enjoy our work. We value a pleasant working atmosphere and strive to make CYTENA a fun, rewarding and productive place to work. We foster a culture built on constructive feedback that champions transparency and mutual respect. At CYTENA, we are all about growth, not only of the big picture but also the personal growth of our employees. We facilitate this by providing well-equipped workstations, training and coaching, helping with individual needs, and creating an agile environment that is enticing and a pleasure to be a part of.
Customers come first
Quality, utility and usability are the key factors in the success of a product. Therefore, we are committed to providing our customers with technologically advanced products and excellent service to support their projects and research. We love being customer focused and are pleased that our instruments and technologies are being used around the world in myriad settings—from clinical and biomedical research to the pharmaceutical industry. We are driven by a desire to source life science instruments of the highest quality with the most user-friendly interfaces.