About ABITEC, Larodan Research Grade Lipids
Founded in 1963, ABITEC Larodan Research Grade Lipids develops and manufactures high-purity lipids and related chemicals for scientific research, analytical testing and product development. The company is based at the Karolinska Institutet Science Park in Solna, Sweden. Larodan specialises in the production of research-grade lipid standards, reference materials and reagents that enable researchers to study lipid structure, function and metabolism. Its expertise supports applications in lipidomics, metabolomics, analytical chemistry, biochemistry, cell biology and pharmaceutical research. Researchers use Larodan products for compound identification, quantification, method development and quality control across academic, biotechnology and industrial laboratories.
Larodan offers an extensive portfolio of fatty acids, fatty acid methyl esters, phospholipids, sphingolipids, sterols, acylglycerols, prostaglandins, wax esters and stable isotope-labelled lipids. The company also provides MCPD and glycidyl ester reference standards, custom lipid synthesis and specialised lipid mixtures and kits. These products support workflows including chromatography, mass spectrometry, BioNMR, lipidomics and metabolomics studies. Larodan lipids are used in bioscience, pharmaceutical, nutrition, food science and quality control applications, including research involving lipid nanoparticles and formulated therapeutics.
Europa Biosite’s subsidiaries distribute for ABITEC Larodan Research Grade Lipids in Ireland, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.