Genia Laboratory

  • LocationMontevideo
  • CountryUruguay
  • ClientGenia Molecular Genetics
  • Date2020
  • PracticePonce de Leon Architects
  • TypeLaboratory
  • StatusCompleted
The enlargement of their existing facilities headquarters at Biotec Building in Zonamerica, fosters an unprecedented degree of collaboration among scientists from different disciplines. The two floor storeys provide facilities for almost one hundred academics from different countries, working within dynamic teams.
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Due to their experience as an analysis laboratory, in consulting for laboratory installation and in the development of the Identica software, GENIA GEO offers all the services required for the installation of genetic databases.

The Identica® software, created by GENIA, is a software tool designed to provide greater control and registration in the routine activities that take place in forensic genetics laboratories.
Created within the framework of the Continuous Quality Improvement Program and implemented in the GENIA laboratory, Identica® was formed in response to the need to avoid errors in statistical calculations related to the technical reports conducted in this area.

Identica® offers an innovative database storage system for individuals and evidence, allowing simultaneous work on both and enabling easy interaction between the two.
Genia implemented phase of the Identity, Paternity and DNA project, a national network being created through an agreement with the Ministry of Science and Technology of Venezuela.
This $58 million project has as its overall objective the deployment of a national network of DNA analysis and a center for high-volume processing of samples for the purposes of identification and determination of paternity.

The project included the installation of a system for the management of DNA bases as well as the development of databases of prosecuted persons and individuals whose activity involves being exposed to the risk of accidents, explosions and fires.

In addition, two processing centers for forensic samples will be created in the interior of Venezuela in coordination with the Body of Penal and Criminal Research and the IDEA Center for Proteomics and Genomics.

An Institute of Research in Genomics, Proteomics, and Health of more than 5,000 square meters was designed, equipped and constructed in the headquarters of the Institute of Advanced Studies of Venezuela.

Today the Genia Laboratory is working extremely hard with the COVID 19 test analysis in different countries of the region, helping with the cases diagnosis, using antigen tests, antibody tests, pooling procedures, specimen collection, and biosafety for specimen handling. They developed a guidance for laboratory workplace safety with a point of care testing guidance and reporting laboratory data.

The enlargement of their existing facilities headquarters at Biotec Building in Zonamerica, fosters an unprecedented degree of collaboration among scientists from different disciplines working in order to meet some of the most pressing scientific and medical challenges of the last decades. Such challenges can no longer be met by individual disciplines working in isolation, but require the combined expertise of multi-disciplinary teams. The two floor storeys provide facilities for almost one hundred academics from different countries, working within dynamic teams. The Biotec Building acts as a social magnet encouraging chance encounters and informal meetings between lecturers, and researchers form diverse academic backgrounds. All the LAB programs are in a state of constant flux, a dynamic working process that is central for the flexibility of the headquarters’ facility. Structurally, the building combines rigidity with flexibility to facilitate the use of highly sensitive equipment.