Private company

Genesee Scientific

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Genesee Scientific Corporation is a global life sciences supplier.2 It was founded in 1995.1 It is headquartered in San Diego.1 It employed 67 people in 2023.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1995Founded1

Genesee Scientific Corporation is a global life sciences supplier.2

The story

Genesee Scientific was founded by Ken Fry in 1995 as a provider of supplies to laboratories located along Genesee Avenue in University City, San Diego.

Today, Genesee Scientific serves life science laboratories around the United States and the world.

Timeline

1995 - Genesee Scientific founded by Ken Fry.

2003 - Acquired United Scientific Plastics (USP), a California Bay Area distributor of laboratory plasticware.

2007 - Acquired Island Scientific, a Seattle area distributor of laboratory plasticware.

2007 - Established East Coast warehouse and offices located in Research Triangle Park, NC.

2009 - Acquired Continental Lab Products (CLP) brands.

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2011 - Expansion of Olympus Plastics product line of tissue culture supplies.

2013 - Became an authorized Eppendorf distribution partner, a Germany-based manufacturer of instruments and consumables.

2016 - Introduction of Prometheus product line, proprietary products for protein biology research.

2017 - Launched GenClone product line, a full line of cell culture media products centered around ultra-pure, high-performance fetal bovine sera.

2021 - Acquired by LLR, a private equity firm investing in technology and healthcare businesses.

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Products and brands

  • Olympus Plastics
  • multi-well plate

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Apex provides a variety of chemicals & reagents to the life science industry.

Blue Devil provides film is used for autoradiography, Western blotting, sequencing, chemiluminescence and gel shift analysis.

Droso-Plugs

Flowbuddy

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Flystuff provides products and services specifically for the Drosophila research community.

The Flyer

Gene Choice provides competent cells for cloning applications.

GenClone provides cell culture media, sera (FBS), buffers, and reagents for cell and tissue culture.

GC10

GCS

NEXT-GEN

Nutri-fly provides nutrient balanced media formulations specifically for Drosophila melanogaster.

Olympus Plastics provides plasticware for general liquid handling and cell and tissue culture applications.

Poseidon provides ergonomic liquid handling equipment including precision pipettes and pipet controllers.

Prometheus provides protein separation/purification resins and Western blotting reagents and consumables.

SECadex

TITAN provides powder-free nitrile and latex examination gloves.

UPrep provides spin columns for DNA and RNA (nucleic acid) purification.

Wormstuff

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Employees over time

  • 2023671

Timeline

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Sources

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