American Type Culture Collection (ATCC)

The American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) is a nonprofit, global biological resource center and standards organization that provides authenticated cells, microorganisms, and other biological materials to support life science research. The company's core business involves the development, production, and distribution of high-quality reference materials, including cell lines, microorganisms, and genomic data, to support various applications such as cancer research, toxicology, molecular diagnostics, and bioproduction. ATCC offers a range of products and services, including MicroQuant, a line of precisely quantitated microbial controls for pharmaceutical testing, and HCMI cancer models, which are next-generation patient-derived cancer models. The company's products and services are designed to support researchers and scientists in their efforts to develop new treatments, diagnostics, and therapies, and to advance our understanding of human disease and biology.

About the ATCC-LGC Standards Partnership
LGC Standards' partnership with ATCC facilitates the distribution of ATCC cultures and bioproducts to life science researchers throughout Europe and India. Our specific aims are to make access to the important resources of ATCC are more easily accessible to the European scientific community through a local stock holding of more than 5000 individual culture items supported by our local office network delivering the highest levels of customer service and technical support.