About Cytopeia :: History

1980s
Ger van den Engh and Willem Stokdijk develop the Rijswijk Experimental Light Activated Cell Sorter (RELACS) at the University of Rotterdam.

RELACS spawns a marine version, the Optical Plankton Analyzer, which is used on board research vessels and moorings off the Dutch coast.

Van den Engh and Stokdijk continued their work at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where they built the MoFlo® high-speed sorter for selecting human chromosomes during the early stages of the Human Genome Project.

In the following the years, MoFlo® establishes itself as the benchmark for high-performance sorting.

1992
Van den Engh helps form the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington with Dr. Leroy Hood and continues perfecting the modular cell sorter.

2000
The inFlux high-speed tabletop sorter is introduced at ISAC in Montpellier, France.
Van den Engh joins the newly founded Institute for Systems Biology and spins off the Institute’s first commercial enterprise, Cytopeia. Prototype instruments are designed, manufactured, and tested at leading research laboratories.

2004
Cytopeia launches the first commercial compact, fully automated inFlux Cell Sorter.