26 March 2010 - Roche Nimblegen has appointed Dr Frank Pitzer as chief-executive officer.
Within Roche, Dr Pitzer most recently served as head of divisional quality and regulatory affairs, reporting directly to the chief executive. 15 February 2010 - Genomic services provider Capitalbio has joined the Roche Nimblegen Certified Service Provider (CSP) Program. Capitalbio has been certified to process customer samples for Nimblegen gene expression, comparative genomic hybridisation/copy number variation (CGH/CNV) and DNA methylation services, in its lab in Beijing, China.
15 December 2009 - Roche Nimblegen has announced that Imagenes has achieved status as a Certified Service Provider (CSP) of Nimblegen microarrays for Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (Chip-chip).
As a CSP, Imagenes will be responsible for processing customer samples for DNA-protein interactions and chromatin structure.
19 November 2009 - Roche Nimblegen has announced that Eurofins MWG Operon has officially become a Certified Service Provider (CSP) for Nimblegen Sequence Capture.
15 October 2009 - Roche Nimblegen has certified that DNA Link, a Seoul-based genomic services provider, is the first certified service provider (CSP) to join its CSP programme.