Proteintech Milestones

2001
Proteintech is founded

August 2003
First publication with a pre-made antibody (Recoverin antibody – 10073-1-AP, Kicic et al. Journal of Neuroscience)

2004
Chinese office opens in Wuhan and 100th antibody is manufactured

April 2006
First monoclonal antibody goes on sale

2007
European office opens in Manchester and a Proteintech product features in a publication for the 50th time (Wang et al, Cell)

2008
Proteintech product features in a publication for the 100th time (Zhang et al, Blood)

2010
Proteintech features in a publication for the 1000th time (Nature Cell Biology)

March 3 2012
First ELISA kit goes on sale and European Office obtains ISO9001 certification

2013
New lab facilities are opened and a Proteintech product features in a publication for the 5,000th time

2014
Proteintech labs obtain SPF (specific pathogen free) grade Mouse house certification. Production ISO9001 and ISO13485 certification also obtained

January 2015
Launch of in-house RNAi validation department and a Proteintech product features in a publication for the 10,000th time

2018
Proteintech acquires Humanzyme, manufacturer of human-cell expressed proteins.

2019
Launch of 500+ antibodies directly conjugated with high-performance CoraLite®488, CoraLite®594 and CoraLite®647 dyes.

2020
Proteintech’s HumanKine® cytokines and growth factors now available in GMP-compliant versions for use in clinical trials and commercial manufacturing.

2020
Proteintech acquires ChromoTek, the market leader in nanobodies — high-performance recombinant reagents used for breakthrough research discoveries.