1974 founder donald comb headquarters 240 county road ipswich massachusetts 01938 key people james ellard ceo number of employees 350 website www.neb.com new england biolabs neb produces and supplies recombinant and native enzyme reagents for the life science research 1 as well as providing solutions supporting genome editing synthetic biology and next generation sequencing . 2 neb also provides free access to research tools such as rebase inbase and polbase . contents 1 the company 2 databases 3 partnerships 4 references 4.1 notes 5 external links the company edit established in 1974 by donald comb as a cooperative laboratory of experienced scientists and initially produced restriction enzymes on a commercial scale . the company then began producing solution oriented products . it received approximately 1.7 million in small business innovation research sbir grants between 2009 and 2013 for this research . 1 neb produces 230 recombinant and 30 native restriction enzymes for genomic research as well as nicking enzymes and dna methylases . it pursues research in areas related to proteomics dna sequencing and drug discovery . neb scientists also conduct basic research in molecular biology and parasitology . 1 the company has subsidiaries in singapore canada china france germany japan and the u.k. 1 and distributors in south america australia and other countries in europe and asia . 3 its headquarters are in ipswich ma . development of the current headquarters began in 2000 and was completed in 2005 . 4 donald comb served as the company s chairman and ceo from the company s founding in 1974 until 2005 . in 2005 he was replaced as chief executive by james ellard though comb remained chairman . neb employs about 350 people at its headquarters . as company policy all scientists and some executives must work at least one day per month on the customer support telephone line answering technical support questions about the company s products . 1 sir richard john roberts is the company s chief scientific officer . 1 5 he shared the 1993 nobel prize in physiology or medicine with phillip allen sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic dna and the mechanism of gene splicing . in 2015 neb committed to establishing a gmp manufacturing facility near its headquarters in ipswich massachusetts ; the aim is to be fully validated and operational by 2017 . 6 databases edit the company runs free scientific databases . rebase the restriction enzyme database contains the details of commercial and research endonucleases . 7 in 2011 the company founded polbase an online database which provides information specifically about polymerases . 8 9 another free neb database is inbase an intein database which includes the intein registry and information about each intein . 10 partnerships edit in 2001 neb co founded the marine dna library ocean genome legacy oglf which according to the boston globe catalogues samples of organisms from all over the world to be made available to scientists for research . though originally located on the neb campus oglf relocated to the nahant campus of northeastern university in 2014 . 11 12 13 to enable point of use sales of its reagents neb created a digital interface for enzyme housing freezers to be used at customer storage sites through a partnership with ionia corp. and salesforce.com . the data is used by the company for both sales logistics and as a part of future enzyme research development . 14 15 it has also partnered with harvard university on recycling and reclamation initiatives when its products and packaging come to the end of their use or lifecycle . 16 as of 2015 update neb also had a distribution agreement with vwr . 2 references edit notes edit a b c d e f philippidis alex 15 march 2013 . new england biolabs looks past enzymes . genetic engineering & biotechnology news . 33 6 . retrieved 8 june 2016 . a b staff 1 april 2015 . news products & services . genetic engineering & biotechnology news paper . 35 7 8 . new england biolabs company overview . business week . retrieved may 7 2014 . bill archambeault november 27 2000 . firm plans 70m project on ipswich great estate . boston business journal . retrieved may 7 2014 . michael hickens april 24 2014 . the morning download tech giants act to stop next heartbleed . wall street journal . staff june 12 2015 . new england biolabs announces plans for gmp manufacturing . pharmaceutical processing . terence a. brown 1998 . molecular biology labfax volume 1 . elsevier . p. 41 . retrieved may 7 2014 . product watch thermo fisher s pikoreal system ; new england biolabs polbase . genome web . november 10 2011 . rodney h. brown november 10 2011 . new england biolabs establishes polymerase database polbase . boston business journal . retrieved may 7 2014 . terence a. brown 1998 . molecular biology labfax volume 1 . elsevier . p. 41 . retrieved may 7 2014 . product watch thermo fisher s pikoreal system ; new england biolabs polbase . genome web . november 10 2011 . rodney h. brown november 10 2011 . new england biolabs establishes polymerase database polbase . boston business journal . retrieved may 7 2014 . http www.bostonglobe.com metro regionals north 2014 04 16 researchers nahant collecting samples map dna from creatures deep v5yw5r5ocdadt7uxd91uli story.html nigel fenwick april 7 2014 . cios choose your digital future . wall street journal . retrieved may 7 2014 . curt woodward may 6 2014 . logmein acquires ionia for 12m intensifying internet of things focus . xconomy . retrieved may 7 2014 . michelle taylor april 8 2014 . collaborative sustainability . laboratory equipment . retrieved may 7 2014 . external links edit http rebase.neb.com rebase rebase.html http tools.neb.com inbase http polbase.neb.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title new england biolabs & oldid 724387008 categories research support companiescompanies established in the 1970slife sciences industrylife science companies based in massachusettscompanies based in essex county massachusettshidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from 2015all articles containing potentially dated statements 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 8 june 2016 at 22 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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