AB has over 5,000 employees worldwide who have generated over 750 US patents and published over 390 US publications.
Our instruments have appeared in "I am Legend" "CSI-Las Vegas" "Crossing Jordan" "Discovery Channel".
25% of our employees have advanced degrees across many disciplines.
Named by ComputerWorld as one of the "Top 100 Companies to Work For In IT".
Our customers include academic research facilities and pharmaceutical and biotech companies, as well as laboratories performing standardized testing.
In fiscal 2007, AB's total revenue topped $2 billion.
That same year, we spent over $200 million--approximately 10% of sales--on research and development.
To date we have placed more than 220,000 instrument platforms with more than 16,000 customers worldwide and counting!
We have been established for over 25 years and have had a European presence since 1985.
We have over 40,000 customers in over 300 countries.
Approximately 50% of our sales come from outside the U.S.
Our president drives a 1998 Volvo station wagon with 103,000 miles on it.
Our warehouse operations recycle more than 500 cubic feet of film wrap per month to make synthetic redwood decking.
AB's human identification kits were used to identify remains from both the World Trade Center bombing and the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.
Two AB employees participated in the 2005 Race Across America, bicycling across the country in about six days. One of them has done it three years in a row!
The company was started by two engineers from Hewlett Packard, Andre Marion and Sam Eletr, in 1981 with the promise to build an instrument that analyzed the amino acid sequences of proteins in an attempt to identify the genes that made them.
The ABI Prism 3700 DNA Analyzer was used by both the public Human Genome Project and the private effort at Celera to sequence the human genome.
The Innocence Project, a national organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through modern DNA testing, relies heavily on technology that AB makes available. So far, 215 people have been exonerated.
AB supplies DNA analysis equipment and reagents to the National Geographic's Genographic Project, which traces human migration across the planet. You can find your place in the migration at
https://www3.national
geographic.com/
genographic/.
AB's Foster City site won the 2006 San Mateo County Sustainability Award with a comprehensive program of recycling, energy-efficiency measures, public transportation and vanpooling incentives, and employee involvement.
After Hurricane Katrina, our parent company's Flight Department organized other corporations' air services to fly 180,000 pounds of food and bottled water into New Orleans and fly out 630 passengers with special needs.
AB's human identification kits and equipment were used to study the mummy of the female Pharaoh Hatshepsut and three others, all dating back 3,500 years, in an attempt to trace their familial relationship.
The National Center for Victims of Crime honors AB's Dr. Leonard Klevan with the 2008 Leadership Award for his excellence in developing innovative forensic DNA technologies that increases accuracy and improves outcomes of criminal investigations.
Applied Biosystems wins the Bio-IT World's Best Practices Award for the second consecutive year for our innovative approach to improving processes and procedures in biomedical research industry.
