Who we are
At Mabtech, our goal is to help fellow scientists reach new frontiers through optimal immunoassays and instruments.
Thanks to close collaboration with customers, we continually develop novel and innovative tools for life science research.
About us
We are a Swedish company developing immunoassays for life science research.
Our goal is to aid research by providing the scientific community with innovative tools, in particular for ELISpot, FluoroSpot, ELISA, and multiplex. To that end, we develop and produce a wide range of monoclonal antibodies, kits, peptide pools, and instruments for in vitro applications.
We started off in Stockholm in 1986, and our headquarters still lies in Nacka Strand, just east of the inner city. We do everything here, from research and production to finance, IT, quality control, marketing, distribution, and sales. In addition, we have a sales office in Cincinnati, Ohio, and collaborate with great distributors around the globe.
The quality of our products really comes down to our entire organization; the balance between individual action and care for the collective. Because for us, quality isn’t just a word. It’s a mindset, a mantra, and a lens we hold to all our initiatives, whatever the size.
As part of the scientific community, we want to do our share to help science progress. So we hope you see us as peers – feel free to strike up any sort of conversation with us.
Our story
How it all came about.
Customer stories
We recently turned 40 (!) and asked our customers and partners to share their favorite Mabtech memory. Here are some of them.
Some companies talk about culture. Others live it.
Mabtech turns 40 today and here is a memory that says more about your company than any company description ever could.
A few years back I came in as a recruitment consultant to support the build-out of a new department focused on instruments. In true Mabtech fashion, the instruments had been developed almost entirely in-house. Engineered piece by piece. Customers were lining up and they needed people who could act as product specialists, performing QC testing and customer onboarding and service in the field.
The department was led by an internal talent who had earned the trust over time.
That is Mabtech.
A company that builds its instruments the way it builds its people. With patience, precision and genuine belief in what they are creating not for themselves but for all scientists and immunologists out there.
Congratulations on 40 years. The best is still ahead.
Sandra Bydell Sveder
Senior recruitment consultant
SallyQ
Dear Mabtech Team,
Happy 40th Anniversary!
My favorite Mabtech memory comes from the final stretch of my PhD at the University of Minnesota. I was working on a new vaccine platform and spent months running high-stakes plasma cell assays to check our immune responses. Anyone who has worked with B cells knows how unpredictable they can be, and I was losing a ton of time to messy, inconsistent data and high background noise from other methods. With graduation deadlines looming, the stress was real.
I finally switched our protocol over to your kits, and it completely changed everything. I still remember pulling the plates and seeing the data. The spots were so crisp, clean, and perfectly defined. No guessing, no weird background artifacts, just clear answers. In fact, it worked so reliably that I was able to comfortably scale up to massive 120-sample marathons without worrying that the reagents would glitch and ruin weeks of hard work.
Your line in the email perfectly nailed it: 'Research is hard. The least we can do is make sure our part of it isn't.' Your kits turned months of frustrating troubleshooting into reliable data that helped me confidently finish my dissertation.
Thank you for being a company run by scientists who actually care about quality. Here’s to 40 more years! :-)
Daman Yadav
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Hartwell Immunoengineering Lab
University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA
"It was very beneficial to be able to do four analytes simultaneously using a 4-color FluoroSpot assay"
Sofie Pattyn
ImmunXperts, Belgium
"We have used Mabtech ELISpot antibodies and reagents for several years. The high quality and standard and competitive price will keep us hooked for years to come."
Cecilia Lindestam Arlehamn
Division of Vaccine Discovery
La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), USA
"Our research group uses Mabtech products for a variety of applications, especially investigating immunological responses in wildlife. We have been able to develop new assays for detecting diseases."
Michele Miller
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Stellenbosch University, South Africa
"Using IRIS was my first experience with ELISpot or FluoroSpot, and our experiments worked right from the start."
Rocio Laguna
Immunodeficiencies and Transplant Immunology Research Group
Hospital Universitario, Spain
Customer ratings
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Why do we highlight an NPS of 72?
Because it means our customers really like us. On a scale from -100 to 100, 72 is world-class. Think “people-would-recommend-us-at-a-party” level good.
Partnerships
Mabtech has several ongoing collaborations with research institutes and companies. We believe that close academic and industrial collaborations will pave the way for future developments which will aid in international research.
Employee stories
We have fantastic people working behind the scenes to develop and produce our products. Click on the photos of Julia, Arbin, or Karin to read their stories.
"I like to see myself as a guardian of our customers' interests"
Julia Salazar Gustavsson
Project lead
"Every day at Mabtech has been a new learning experience and I look forward to growing within the company."
Arbin Thapa
Product specialist, instruments
"I've never had a day when I didn't enjoy going to work"
Karin Cavallin
Scientist
Join us
We take ownership for our work, which means we constantly come up with new ideas, drive the best ones forward, and hold ourselves just as accountable for the unexpected as we do for the slam dunks.
We also have a lot of fun. Welcome to apply :)
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