biotechnology research products founded 1986 headquarters bend oregon usa key people charles mcgrath jennipher grudzien products oncyte nitrocellulose film slides website www.gracebio.com grace bio labs is a global supplier of pharmaceutical biomedical and biochemical research products based in bend oregon united states . they develop the thin cast nitrocellulose biochip aka nitrocellulose slide nitrocellulose film slide 1 2 and the modern hybridization and incubation chambers for glass microscope slides . 3 contents 1 history 2 customer base 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit originally based near detroit michigan and founded by charles mcgrath in 1986 grace bio labs relocated to bend oregon in may 1990 . with the aid of sbir funding grace bio labs was built on two main product types . the first is the incubation chamber for cell culture and analysis ; the second is the oncyte nitrocellulose film slide . their incubation and hybridization chambers are fluid delivery and containment products that increase sensitivity and efficiency in fluorescence and color based protein and cell analyte assays . 4 the oncyte nitrocellulose microporous film nitrocellulose slide is a biochip platform that captures and protects the 3 dimensional tertiary structure of biological material . originally designed for tissue printing 1 and cell lysate capture the film has flourished in proteomics . it is commonly used in automated and manual protein microarrays and continues to increase throughput in proteomics research . 5 customer base edit grace bio labs sells to university research laboratories biotech companies private researchers and pharmaceutical companies . they mainly distribute to north america western and central europe east asia and southeast asia . see also edit list of companies based in oregon references edit a b cytometrically coherent transfer of receptor proteins on microporous membrane . biotechniques vol . 11 no 3 352 361 1991 . high definition cell analysis in situ using microporous films . cell vision vol . 2 no 6 499 590 1995 . mcgrath charles m. ; grudzien jennipher l. ; levine allan . influence of surface volume ratio of reaction chambers on stoichiometry of antibody based reactions in situ . cell vision vol 2 no. 2 . 165 169 1995 . 1 janitz m. the hybriwell sealing system from grace bio labs . biocompare january 1 03 . 2 assay protein microarrays on nitrocellulose slides . genetic engineering and biotechnology news vol . 26 no 2 . mary ann liebert inc. publishers jan 15 2006 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title grace bio labs & oldid 691136801 categories companies based in bend oregoncompanies established in 19861986 establishments in oregonresearch support companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 november 2015 at 21 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view