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About OGT
- Founded in 1995 by the pioneer of Southern Blotting, Professor Sir Edwin Southern, OGT is based at Begbroke Business Park near Oxford
- OGT's management team brings a unique combination of world-recognised science, combined with a strong track record in licensing intellectual property, product development and commercialisation of technology
- Some of the royalty income from licensing microarray technology is used to fund charities supporting scientific advancement. The Kirkhouse Trust was founded by Professor Southern to promote education and research in the Natural Sciences, as well as the Edina Trust which was founded to promote science in schools
- OGT offers a comprehensive custom microarray consultancy service, from experimental design through all stages to data analysis and interpretation. It has a strong proven track record in providing custom microarray service in a range of applications including Gene Expression (GE), Comparative Genome Hybridisation (CGH) and Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP)
The key focus areas of OGT are:
1. Cytogenetics products and services for high resolution detection of chromosomal abnormalities. CytoSure ™ arrays are the first oligonucleotide microarrays designed exclusively for the cytogenetics research community to achieve accurate, high resolution analysis of chromosome copy number and structural changes.
2. Licensing. OGT operates an open licensing
policy which has successfully provided access for a number of companies to OGT's fundamental intellectual property, particularly in the area of microarrays.
3. Digital microarrays/ Single Cell analysis. OGT's innovative, patent-protected technology development programme is aimed at analysing genomic events at the single cell level for major applications such as stem cell and cancer biology.
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