Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc.

Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc. develops, manufactures and markets a ProteinChip® System that enables protein discovery, characterization and assay development to provide researches with a better understanding of biological functions at the protein level. Our ProteinChip System is a novel, enabling tool in the emerging field of protein-based biology research, known as proteomics. Ciphergen’s technology provides a direct approach to understanding the role of proteins in the biology of disease, monitoring of disease progression and the therapeutic effects of drugs. Our system provides an excellent complement to gene expression analysis to accelerate the understanding of gene function and the molecular basis of disease.