Affymetrix to Webcast Presentation at Baird Oncology Conference.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) today announced that Giulia C. Kennedy, Ph.D., Senior Director of Genomics Collaborations, will provide an overview of applications of Affymetrix technology in oncology research and clinical studies at the Baird 2006 Focus on Oncology Conference in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY. A live webcast of the presentation will take place at 9:35 a.m. ET on Wednesday August 2, 2006. An archived webcast will be available for 30 days. To access the live webcast or archived presentation, find the "Investors" link in the "Resources for" drop-down menu See pull-down menu. drop-down menu - pull-down menu on www.affymetrix.com. About Affymetrix Affymetrix scientists invented the world's first high-density microarray in 1989 and began selling the first commercial microarray in 1994. Since then, Affymetrix GeneChip(R) technology has become the industry standard in molecular biology molecular biology, scientific study of the molecular basis of life processes, including cellular respiration, excretion, and reproduction. The term molecular biology was coined in 1938 by Warren Weaver, then director of the natural sciences program at the Rockefeller research. Affymetrix technology is used by the world's top pharmaceutical, diagnostic and biotechnology companies Top 100 Biotechnology Companies The following is a list of the top 100 biotechnology companies ranked by revenue. The first nine companies qualify for the list of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies. as well as leading academic, government and not-for-profit research institutes. More than 1,400 systems have been installed around the world and nearly 4,000 peer-reviewed papers have been published using the technology. Affymetrix' patented photolithographic pho·to·li·thog·ra·phy n. A planographic printing process using plates made according to a photographic image. pho manufacturing process provides the most information capacity available today on an array, enabling researchers to use a whole-genome approach to analyzing the relationship between genetics and health. Affymetrix is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., with manufacturing facilities in Sacramento, Calif., and Bedford, Mass. The company maintains important sales and marketing operations in Europe and Asia and has about 1,100 employees worldwide. For more information about Affymetrix, please visit the company's website at www.affymetrix.com. NOTE: Affymetrix, the Affymetrix logo, and GeneChip are registered trademarks owned or used by Affymetrix, Inc. |
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