About us

In a world of increasing regulatory requirements and rising cost for innovation, reliable and efficient analytics-services are key to successful R&D in the chemical industry. We are your trusted partner delivering the best services in mass spectrometry-based biological analytics. We support your innovation with our differentiating technologies, more than 24 years of expertise and a strong service model.

Facts and Figures

• established in 1998 as joint venture with Prof. Lothar Willmitzer, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology
• Located at Berlin Biotech Park, close to Berlin center
• Approx. 50 highly experienced staff
• > 40 state of the art LC-MS and GC-MS equipment, 24/7 ready
• High throughput analytics with > 50,000 samples/year capacity
• 1000m² laboratory space and 2 phytotrons for plant growth
• Fully digitalized LIMS and data handling
• Certified for operations under GLP and GMO safety level S2

Milestones

Through its history BASF Metabolome Solutions contributed substantially to innovations in R&D at BASF and external customers in the pharmaceutical and health industry, for example:

• Execution of the largest metabolomics project in industry 
• 50,000 genes profiled in plants for trait gene discovery
• BASF Agro Science Award 2008 for Metabolite Profiling platform facilitating herbicide mode of action research  
• BASF Innovation Award 2015 for MetaMap^® Tox, the world largest metabolite profiling database for toxicology 
• Identification and validation of metabolic biomarkers for several human health and biotech R&D applications
• First ever Metabolite Profiling data generated under GLP in 2018