Today in a joint press release Aperio Technologies, Inc. and Olympus Corporation announced the completion of a distribution agreement whereby Olympus will sell and service Aperio’s ultra-fast ScanScope® slide scanners and related virtual microscopy software in Japan. (Press release here.)
According to Dirk Soenksen, Aperio Technologies’ CEO, “We are pleased to be working with Olympus to provide ScanScope systems to the scientific and medical communities in Japan. The synergy between Olympus’ market leadership in microscopy and Aperio’s superior slide scanning technology will advance the field of virtual microscopy.”
This is big news for us - we are very excited to be working with Olympus - a world leader in microscopy - on the next generation of microscopy equipment.
