Affymetrix to Webcast Presentations for UBS West Coast Life Sciences & Diagnostics Tour.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 the Company will webcast presentations at 1:00 pm PT on Tuesday, March 6th in Santa Clara, CA as part of the UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System West Coast Life Sciences and Diagnostics Tour. The program will include a general corporate overview, as well as presentations on Affymetrix' Life Sciences and Molecular Diagnostics businesses. The speakers will include: -- Doug Farrell, Vice President of Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. -- Sean George, Ph.D., Vice President of Life Sciences Research, Academic -- Noel Doheny, Senior Vice President of Molecular Diagnostics The webcast will include the Question and Answer session following the presentations. A webcast will be available live and by replay. To access both the live and archived webcast, please go to www.affymetrix.com and click on the "Investors" link. The archived replay will be available 24 hours after the live presentation and will be accessible for 30 days. About Affymetrix Affymetrix scientists invented the world's first high-density microarray See micro array. microarray - A technique for performing many DNA experiments in parallel. Nothing to do with computers. 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 more than 8,500 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., Bedford, Mass., and Singapore. 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[R] are registered trademarks owned or used by Affymetrix Inc. |
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