BASF Metabolome Solutions GmbH

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 25 years of expertise and a strong service model.

Facts and Figures

Originally founded as a technology start up, today BASF Metabolome Solutions GmbH provides professional R&D services:
  • 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
  • GMO safety level S1
  • Biosafety level S1 and 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 
  • 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
  • > 25 years in business
  • > 6,500 projects
  • > 1 million samples in > 80 biological matrices
  • > 30 patent families filed