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Our company

Built around your science.
Built by BioNex.

Instrument engineering, workflow design and system integration from one team in San Jose, California.

Design, manufacturing and integration

Your workflow. Built by people who understand the details.

BioNex designs and manufactures its laboratory automation products in San Jose, California, then brings them together with the third-party devices your process already depends on.

Instrument engineering, workflow design and system integration sit with one team, so the people configuring your system understand it from the inside out.

BioNex Solutions is a privately funded life science company. San Jose is its manufacturing, development and corporate headquarters, and BioNex Solutions is ISO 9001:2015 certified.

A BioNex team member fastening a machined part with a screwdriver at a black workbench, with stacked machined plates beside him
Fastening machined parts by hand on the San Jose build floor.
A FEW OF OUR CUSTOMERS

In good company.

Supporting the teams moving science forward.

  • Eli Lilly
  • Ginkgo Bioworks
  • Novartis
  • Merck
  • Regeneron
  • Boehringer Ingelheim
  • Sanofi
  • Pfizer
  • GSK
  • Amgen
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Bristol Myers Squibb
  • Vertex
  • AstraZeneca
  • AbbVie
  • Gilead Sciences
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Co-founders

Started by two founders.
Built by one team.

BioNex Solutions was co-founded by Tony Lima and Eric Rollins. Today the company designs, builds and supports its instruments from its headquarters in San Jose, California.

Portrait of Tony Lima, founder, CEO of BioNex Solutions

Tony Lima

Founder · President and CEO

Tony brings more than 40 years of experience in the instrumentation and diagnostics industry. As President and CEO, he leads BioNex with a focus on practical automation and long-term customer relationships.

Before co-founding BioNex with Eric Rollins, Tony held leadership roles at Syva, Molecular Devices, DiscoveRx and Velocity11. His experience spans global sales, service and operations, bringing a broad understanding of what laboratories need from their instruments and the teams behind them.

Portrait of Eric Rollins, co-founder of BioNex Solutions

Eric Rollins

Co-founder · VP of Engineering

Eric began his laboratory automation career at Incyte, where he saw firsthand the challenges scientists face as their workflows grow. He went on to co-found Velocity11, where he met Tony Lima, before the two founded BioNex.

Today, Eric leads BioNex’s engineering development and applications teams. His focus is practical: helping customers connect their instruments and processes in ways that work reliably in their labs.

People and craft

Designed, built and supported in San Jose.

The instruments in your lab start here, on Bering Drive. A few moments from a working day with the people who design, build and support them.

An open aluminum Hive frame on the BioNex build floor in San Jose, with workbenches and parts shelving behind it
A Hive frame taking shape on the San Jose build floor.
A BioNex team member in a black beanie assembling small machined components at a black workbench
Assembling small machined components at the bench.
A BioNex team member in an olive shirt working on an open centrifuge at a workbench
Inspecting an open centrifuge at the bench.
Gloved hands fitting a small part beside machined metal blocks on a workbench
Small parts, fitted by hand.
Machined metal plates laid out on a bench in front of green parts bins
Machined metal plates, laid out before assembly.
01 / Understand

Start with the process.

Define your workflow, constraints and the result you need.

02 / Build

Connect the right pieces.

Bring instruments, storage, robotics and software into a working system.

03 / Support

Keep a direct line.

Work with the team that understands the system and its application.

Careers at BioNex

Engineers, builders and sellers who want to see their work run in customer labs. See where you could fit.

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Custom integrations & OEM solutions

Discuss a configured system or an integration project.

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Conversations at SLAS · Photo supplied by Roger Schaller
Let’s talk about your work

A conversation starts
with your lab.

What is slowing your team down? What needs to stay? Bring us your workflow, your questions and the details that matter to you.

Your workflow is the starting point

What would you like
your lab to do next?

Bring us your process. Let’s work through the possibilities.

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