Industry: Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology
EnCor Biotechnology Inc. was founded by Dr. Gerry Shaw, who was born in Nottingham, England sometime in the last millennium. After school and working for a a year in a warehouse, he obtained a B.Sc. degree in University College London. He then went on to obtain a Ph.D. degree in the laboratory of Dr. Dennis Bray in King’s College London. He started making antibodies in the laboratory of Prof. Klaus Weber and Dr. Mary Osborn, in Goettingen, in what was then West Germany. This was in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (also known as the Karl-Friedrich Bonhoeffer Institute). Then as now, one of the most useful tools available in biological research was a collection of good antibodies, and as part of his research projects Dr. ( www.encorbio.com )
EnCor Biotechnology Inc
4949 SW 41St Blvd. Suite 40
Gainesville, Florida 32608
USA
Tel: (352) 372-7022
Fax: (352) 372-7066