Online Recruiting Expert Climber.com Signs Invitrogen as Recruiting Partner

Global Life Science Technology Company Seeks Talented, Diverse Candidate Pool

SAN DIEGO, Calif —July 2, 2007 – Online recruiting expert Climber.com today announced that Invitrogen Corporation (Nasdaq:IVGN), a provider of essential life science technologies for disease research and drug discovery, has become its newest company partner, opening the way for Climber.com’s professional candidate pool to receive personalized match connections with the global life science technology company.

“Climber.com approaches recruiting with a systematic, very personalized approach that allows us to review highly-qualified candidates that also appear to be a strong fit for our workplace environment,” said Rodney Moses, global vice president of talent acquisition, Invitrogen. “We look forward to a very successful partnership.”

Mike O’Brien, CEO of Climber.com agrees. “With its strong employee culture, Invitrogen is an ideal partner for Climber.com,” he says. “Our high-technology and relationship-focused recruiting process will help bring diverse and talented industry professionals together with Invitrogen, for their mutual benefit.”

Climber.com, which describes its recruiting process in the style of “dating for jobs” ™ offers candidates a quick, comprehensive profiling system and the advantage of passive recruiting, so that candidates can return to the jobs they currently enjoy while waiting for their perfect match.
Companies interested in learning more about partnering with Climber.com can visit their website at  www.climber.com or contact Nick Jimenez at 619-618-4203.
Climber.com
Climber.com, is a ground-breaking online recruiting partner for today’s highly diverse, talented professionals and the companies who seek to employ them. Through its innovative recruiting system, Climber.com has created double blind system which pairs companies and passive job seekers based on their CareerFingerprint™ (a proprietary work values assessment) and in-depth profiles. This reduces the applicant pool and improves the chances of a candidate being Qualified, Available and Interested (QAI). Climbers (passive job seekers) benefit from the reduction of recruitment spam. For more information, visit www.Climber.com.

About Invitrogen
Invitrogen Corporation (Nasdaq:IVGN) provides products and services that support academic and government research institutions and pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide in their efforts to improve the human condition.  The company provides essential life science technologies for disease research, drug discovery, and commercial bioproduction.  Invitrogen's own research and development efforts are focused on breakthrough innovation in all major areas of biological discovery including functional genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics and cell biology -- placing Invitrogen's products in nearly every major laboratory in the world.  Founded in 1987, Invitrogen is headquartered in Carlsbad, California, and conducts business in more than 70 countries around the world.  The company is celebrating 20 years of accelerating scientific discovery.  Invitrogen globally employs approximately 4,300 scientists and other professionals and had revenues of more than $1.15 billion in 2006.

For more information, visit www.invitrogen.com.