founded 1995 by stephen scaringe headquarters lafayette co usa key people mike deines general manager products crispr rnai sirna mirna shrna cdna orfs transfection reagents number of employees 150 2014 slogan imagination at work website http dharmacon.gelifesciences.com dharmacon was founded in 1995 by stephen scaringe as dharmacon research to develop and commercialize a new technology for rna oligonucleotide synthesis . the original dharmacon focus and vision was to develop 2 ace rna technology as the standard for rna synthesis and to advance rna oligo dependent applications and technologies . when rna interference rnai emerged in the late 1990s dharmacon was poised to provide rnai related products to the multitude of academic and industry researchers . dharmacon has become an important resource for those investigating the mechanisms of sirna small interfering rna induced gene knockdown and applying the specificity and potency of rnai to human biotherapeutics . dharmacon s expertise in bioinformatics rna biology and synthesis chemistry has allowed it to develop a complete line of products for the rnai researcher . in november 2002 dharmacon research inc. officially changed its name to dharmacon inc. to reflect the increasing capabilities and future growth potential of the company as it had advanced beyond research and development and into whole solutions for rna oligo dependent applications and technologies . in march 2004 dharmacon became a wholly owned subsidiary of fisher scientific international inc. 1 in november 2006 fisher scientific international inc. merged with thermo electron corporation to become thermo fisher scientific . 2 in october 2012 the websites for the companies formerly known as dharmacon open biosystems fermentas finnzymes and abgene were merged creating the new thermo scientific life sciences research ecommerce site . in april 2013 thermo fisher scientific reached an agreement to buy life technologies corporation . 3 the acquisition of life technologies corporation received conditional approval from the european commission in november 2013 . 4 the conditional requirement was the divestment of thermo fisher scientific s cell culture sera and media magnetic beads and dharmacon gene modulation businesses for antitrust reasons . in early january 2014 ge healthcare reached an agreement with thermo fisher scientific to acquire the cell culture magnetic bead and dharmacon gene modulation businesses for 1.05 billion usd . 5 the acquisition of dharmacon is viewed as complementary to ge healthcare s drug discovery research technologies . in the fall of 2014 ge healthcare announced it had reached a licensing agreement with the broad institute of mit and harvard granting access to crispr cas9 intellectual property . under the agreement ge healthcare is able to incorporate the patented technologies and develop and launch additional complementary gene editing reagents . 6 then in october 2014 ge healthcare dharmacon launched its first crispr cas9 genome engineering products under the edit r brand . 7 in july 2015 ge healthcare dharmacon launched synthetic crrna and lentiviral sgrna pre designed with a functionally validated algorithm against entire human mouse and rat genomes . 8 references edit acquisition of dharmacon inc. by fisher scientific dead link press release february 11 2004 merger of thermo electron and fisher scientific completed forming thermo fisher scientific dead link press release november 9 2006 thermo fisher scientific to acquire life technologies corporation thermo fisher scientific enews thermo fisher scientific receives clearance from the european commission for its acquisition of life technologies thermo fisher scientific enews ge to expand in life sciences with acquisition of strategic assets from thermo fisher scientific business wire crispr cas9 ip licensed to ge dharmacon edit r gene engineering system the scientist magazine ge healthcare dharmacon advances crispr cas9 gene engineering 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