Bayer HealthCare, Diagnostics Division, a member of the Bayer Group, has launched the ADVIA Centaur® CP immunoassay system. The ADVIA Centaur CP, part of Bayer’s ADVIA family of automated clinical laboratory solutions, is a compact, benchtop, fully automated analytical system that enables hospital and reference laboratories to rapidly perform a wide variety of disease-specific tests, which enhance the management of disease.
Following in the footsteps of the ADVIA Centaur immunoassay system, the ADVIA Centaur CP includes many enhancements. It uses the same assay methodologies and reagent packs as the ADVIA Centaur. The complete menu of disease-state assay groups available on both the ADVIA Centaur and ADVIA Centaur CP include cardiovascular, oncology, fertility, and infectious disease testing capabilities.
     The ADVIA Centaur CP, with its chemistry counterpart, the ADVIA 1200 clinical chemistry system—which works with Bayer’s networking and data-management solution, ADVIA CentraLink®—delivers synergies of sample handling, connectivity, and system functionality to provide a complete immunoassay and clinical chemistry solution. This enables the smaller lab to offer a complete testing service without costly sample splitting and result collation.
     “The ADVIA Centaur CP is a key component of our strategy to better serve our customers by offering more analytical platforms, more assays, and improved connectivity and integration,” says Tony Bihl, president, Bayer Diagnostics. “Our objective at Bayer HealthCare is to be the preferred partner and provider of solutions, both to the high-end, high-volume, fully automated laboratory, and now, with the introduction of the ADVIA Centaur CP, to the midsized laboratory in the community hospital, IDN satellite, or private facility.”
      “Our customers have clearly told us that they have a need for an immunoassay platform that packages ADVIA Centaur immunoassay system technology in a smaller footprint,” says Tom Warekois, senior vice president of Global Strategic Marketing, Bayer Diagnostics. “The ADVIA Centaur CP enables the midsized and specialty laboratory to make improvements in productivity by consolidating testing onto a single platform sized for their laboratory needs.”

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