Partnership will provide extended access for customers across the Americas to iotaSciences’ proprietary single cell handling platforms
Oxford (UK)/Santa Clara (USA), Oct 7, 2025: iotaSciences, the Oxford-based leader in single-cell biology handling solutions, and Yamato Scientific America Inc., a subsidiary of Yamato Scientific Ltd. In Japan, announced today a distribution agreement for iotaSciences’ proprietary single cell handling platforms for the U.S, Canada, and Latin America.
Dr. Michael Lutz, iotaSciences´ CEO said: “We are highly excited to have established this partnership now with Yamato Scientific America which will provide us substantial broader access to existing and new customers across the whole Americas. This agreement bodes well with our ongoing acceleration of commercial activities in other parts of the world, including Europe and in particular China. Yamato Scientific America is a strong partner for us to team up with given their mission to provide innovative and cutting-edge technology that contributes to the development of scientific breakthroughs across all American markets.”
“We are very pleased to now offer customers across the Americas access to iotaSciences’ platforms, which allows scientists to access highly user-friendly, reliable, and powerful single cell handling technologies and solutions with unique capabilities for researchers to advance their efforts in cell biology and gene therapy faster and cheaper” said Atsushi Tsunomura, President of Yamato Scientific America. “We look forward to working closely with the iotaSciences team to introduce this unique technology to the rapidly expanding field of single cell biological applications with a particular focus on single cell dispensing.”
About iotaSciences (https://iotasciences.com/)
iotaSciences is a spin-out from the University of Oxford (UK), founded in 2016 by scientists from the Department of Engineering Science and the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology. Since its inception, iotaSciences has been committed to offer researchers highly user-friendly, reliable, and powerful single-cell handling technologies and solutions with unique capabilities that greatly simplify and facilitate breakthrough advances in cell biology and gene therapy.
About Yamato Scientific USA (https://www.yamato-usa.com/)
Established in 1989, Yamato Scientific America Inc. (YSA) provides a wide range of general laboratory products to the United States, including ovens, muffle furnaces, sterilizers, incubators, rotary evaporators, analyzers, data loggers, water baths, circulators, cold traps, spray dryers, freeze dryers, water purification systems, stirrers, shakers, laboratory washers, plasma cleaners, environmental chambers, freezers, refrigerators, and custom-engineered industrial solutions. In 2024, YSA strategically expanded into the life sciences sector. Today, the company serves a diverse array of industries—including life sciences, chemical, technology, automotive, energy, pharmaceutical, governmental, and academic institutions—across the US, Canada, and Latin America.
For further information please contact:
iotaSciences Ltd.
Dr. Michael Lutz, Chief Executive Officer
Tel: +44 (1865) 309630
Email: info@iotasciences.com
Yamato Scientific America Inc.
Atsushi Tsunomura, President
Tel: +1 (408) 421-9700
Email: atsunomura@yamato-usa.com