improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . june 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message this article includes a list of references related reading or external links but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations . please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . june 2014 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message phadia type subsidiary industry pharmaceutical founded uppsala 1971 headquarters uppsala sweden area served worldwide key people joe bernardo ceo products immunocap number of employees 1 700 2010 parent thermo fisher scientific website phadia.com phadia develops manufactures and markets blood test systems to support the clinical diagnosis and monitoring of allergy asthma and autoimmune diseases . the company is headquartered in uppsala sweden . it has been owned by thermo fisher scientific since 2011 . contents 1 history 2 immunoglobulin e testing 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit originally part of the pharmacia group of companies and an offshoot of the diagnostics division that developed out of pfizer and pharmacia & upjohn all uppsala based companies phadia was renamed in january 2006 . the first steps towards the present phadia ab were taken in the mid 1960s . three scientists working at uppsala university hospital leif wide rolf ax n and jerker porath then presented their ideas to use pharmacia s separation medium sephadex as the solid phase in immunodiagnostics tests and proposed a collaboration with the company for the commercial development . pharmacia s management decided to go for the project and established a special r & d group for diagnostics products . in 1970 pharmacia s first product phadebas amylase test a test for the enzyme alpha amylase was launched . at the same time an important medical discovery was made which would be of decisive importance to phadia . in 1967 immunoglobulin e or ige was discovered by two separate research teams by teruko and kimishige ishizaka in the us and by gunnar johansson and hans bennich sv at uppsala university hospital . johansson and bennich worked together with wide to develop a method to measure the levels of the substance in blood samples . eventually a clear connection was demonstrated between ige antibodies and allergic symptoms . johansson bennich and wide then suggested that pharmacia should use the findings to develop a commercial allergy test . this led to the ground breaking product phadebas rast which established the leading position that phadia still maintains in the area of allergy testing . immunoglobulin e testing edit since the discovery of ige in 1967 phadia has pioneered the development of in vitro test systems for allergy immunoglobulin e . these ige tests have been followed by tests for igg and iga antibodies as well as other analytes with applications in asthma celiac disease and autoimmunity . in addition the immunocap testing system has revolutionized the level of automation and speed which these tests are processed . based on the high binding capacity and solid phase technology immunocap tests are both highly sensitive and highly specific . see also edit eczema rhinitis asthma thyroid disease diabetes rheumatoid arthritis systemic lupus erythematosus sle references edit saarinen u m et al. lancet 1995 ; 346 1065 1069 de backer . am j respir 1996 ; 153 a336 external links edit phadia immunocap allergy test retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title phadia & oldid 709186090 categories health care companies of swedenblood testshidden categories articles needing additional references from june 2014all articles needing additional referencesarticles lacking in text citations from june 2014all articles lacking in text citationsinterlanguage link template link number 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 edit links this page was last modified on 9 march 2016 at 16 13 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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