Key instrumentation at the biomedical research center, which provides help to millions battling life-threatening diseases, is now protected from insidious power interrupts lasting over 20 milliseconds
Franek Technologies engineering team provided consultation, design, and installation of power protection systems for such highly-sensitive instrumentation as: Thermo Electron Finnigan LTQ-FT MS fourier transform, linear ion trap mass spectrometer with Surveyor LC (high performance liquid chromatography); Waters Micromass Quattro Ultima LC/LC/MS with ESI (liquid chromatography/liquid chromatography/mass spectrometer with electro spray injection); and PerkinElmer Sciex Protof 2000 orthogonaL Tof Maldi MS (time of flight, matrix assisted laser desorption ionization, mass spectrometer) in the immunology research laboratories.
Other critical instrumentation applications currently being protected at City of Hope by Franek Technologies include Agilent, Applied Biosystems, Beckman-Coulter, Becton-Dickinson, and MJ Research genetic analyzers, and sequence detection systems in the molecular diagnostics and clinical laboratories.
Numerous Gambro Trima, patient contact, apheresis (automated blood collection and separation), instrumentation in the HLA (human leukocyte antigen) typing - hematology, and the blood bank department are also protected.
As a world-renowned research institute and treatment center, City of Hope and Beckman Research Institute relies on extremely sophisticated instrumentation to conduct cancer, diabetes, HIV/Aids, and other life-threatening diseases research.
Such instrumentation is highly sensitive to uncontrolled environmental conditions such as power fluctuations or interruptions.
Failure to provide adequate power protection can result in costly damage to the instrumentation, irreplaceable sample loss, and lost productive time.
As a non-profit organization, the medical research center takes its commitment to donors to dedicate dollars to research and patient care very seriously.
In fact, the City of Hope ranks among the nation's top health-related charities for financial responsibility.
An impressive 84 percent of resources spent goes toward research, treatment, public information, and education programs.
The additional power protection provided by Franek Technologies eliminates the risk of dollar loss due to power fluctuations and failure.
