BIA Separations, Austrian-Slovenian developer and manufacturer of CIM® short monolithic chromatographic columns optimized for the separation and purification of large bio-molecules on laboratory and industrial scale, announces that it has received the KAPPA-HEALTH AWARD 2011 for being one of the most successful research-intensive and high-tech SMEs in European Union. It received the award because it demonstrated during its participation in Framework 6 & 7 Projects that it is "a model of the wide range of successful research-intensive SMEs participating in an EU co-funded project".

This award was the result of KAPPA-Health's 3-year inquiry among 83 healthcare research-intensive SMEs, which participated in 120 FP6 and FP7 projects. The project's goal was to identify what makes a biotech SME successful in terms of participation in EU co-funded research and how this joint research results in successful commercialization of the products/services.

Commenting on the award's presentation, BIA Separations Downstream Processing Manager, Dr. Matja