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Dynamic Healthcare M&A Database - 3Q05



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Acquiring Party    Invitrogen Corporation, (Nasdaq: IVGN), a provider of technologies for disease, drug discovery and commercial bioproduction.
Transferring Party    BioSource International (BIOI), a provider of products and services supporting biomedical research by producing animal- or human-based nucleic acids and proteins.
Sector    Biopharmaceuticals
Date    July 26, 2005
Analysis
Broadens Invitrogen's collection of protein and primary antibody products which were added through the prior acquisitions of Zymed Labs and Caltag Labs. Expands Invitrogen's offerings in kinase and cytokine assay technologies for research applications and provides entre into new markets: immunology, oncology and neurodegenerative disease. The Deal value about $130 million. BioSource's revenues were $47.3 million and EBITDA $4.6 million




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