Siemens公司开发出电化学生物芯片诊断系统

一种分子诊断系统在日常临床诊断中可以进行快速检测，以电信号的形式提供信息，使得这种方法更加迅速、强大而且操作简单，比当前使用的光学检测方法具有更好的成本效益比。

因为这种新系统适合DNA以及蛋白质的检测，具有更加广泛的应用范围：检测感染性疾病的病毒、过敏原、遗传性疾病，与药物相关或者移植相关的不兼容性。当前，这类检测方法只能在大型实验室中进行，必须使用昂贵而复杂的分析系统，而且颇费时日，需要数日才能够出结果。

这种新型芯片上的实验室系统-Quicklab的研制开发，是由西门子公司从Infineon技术公司移植而来的。这种移植包括、高科技芯片实验室以及懂得硅生物芯片制造的专家。西门子公司的任务是将Quicklab系统成功的推向市场。整套分析系统整合在一张智能卡上，为临床诊断中提供了复杂而性价比很好的检测方法。

在2004年，Siemens公司、Fraunhofer硅工艺研究院和Infineon公司因为联合开发了这套生物芯片系统而获得了德国未来奖金。
 
Electrochemical Biochip Diagnostic System
 
A molecular diagnostic system for performing quick tests in routine clinical diagnostics provides information in the form of an electrical signal, making it faster, more robust, and simpler, as well as more cost-effective than current optical methods.

Since the new system is suitable for both DNA as well as proteins, it can be used for a broad spectrum of applications: to detect viruses of infectious diseases, allergies, hereditary diseases, and incompatibilities with respect to medications or transplantations. Currently, tests of this kind are performed in large laboratories with complex analytic systems that are expensive as well as time-consuming, requiring several days to provide results.

The development of Quicklab, the new lab-on-a-chip system, has been transferred to Siemens Medical Solutions (Erlangen, Germany) from Infineon Technologies (Munich, Germany). The transfer involved patents, a high-tech biochip lab, and experts with the know-how of silicon biochip manufacture. The task of Siemens is to bring Quicklab to market maturity. The entire analysis system is integrated on a smart card and provides the basis for comprehensive and cost-effective analysis methods in clinical diagnostics.

In 2004, the joint development of this biochip technology by Siemens, the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicon Technology (Munich, Germany), and Infineon Technologies received the German Future Prize.