Science park leader to talk at UKSPA, Knowledge Exchange meeting & BioIntegrates. Dr Martino Picardo, Chairman of Discovery Park, a thriving high-quality science park playing a key role in the South East of England’s life sciences community, will be speaking about his experience in the sector at several conferences over the coming months. Chairman of Discovery Park since June 2018, he is working with CEO Mayer Schreiber to deliver a...
IONTAS Limited (IONTAS), a leader in the discovery and optimisation of fully human antibodies, has won ‘Small Business of the Year’ category at the Cambridge News Business Excellence Awards 2019. Marking their 26th year, the Awards highlight Cambridge’s best business talent, with winners selected by a panel of experts encompassing a broad range of business expertise. The ‘Small Business of the Year’ category recognises IONTAS for achieving sustained growth....
GoodCat Analytical, LLC (GCA Laboratories) is based in Naples, FL, and is the first cannabis testing laboratory accredited by A2LA in the state. “I can’t say enough about each of our staff members efforts to develop and validate each analytical method,” said Jimmy Dodsworth, Chief Science Officer at GoodCat Analytical. “The level of quality for these internally developed tests is amazing considering we started from scratch.”...
Peak Scientific, the global leader in gas generation for analytical laboratories, has pledged to honour the United Kingdom’s Armed Forces Covenant. As a global company, headquartered in Scotland in the UK, Peak Scientific is approaching 500 employees worldwide, with over 200 employees situated in the UK. Many of the company’s UK employees have come from military backgrounds, are military spouses or are Armed Forces Reservists....
Pittcon, the world’s leading conference and exposition for laboratory science, is pleased to announce the selection of nine finalists in the annual Pittcon Today Excellence Awards conducted by CE Communications, the official publishers of Pittcon Today and the Pittcon Buzz. These awards recognize innovations at this year’s exposition and offer a channel for exhibitors to showcase their scientific advancements. From titrators, wireless temperature sensing, and chromatography columns....
The Programme Committee for “Advances in Photonic Tools and Techniques for the Life Sciences” conference in Glasgow has announced their choice of invited Keynote speaker. Prof Banafshé Larijani will give a headline presentation on “Oncoprotein activation and dynamics in cancer: A new vision of cancer diagnostics”. Banafshé Larijani is the Director of the Centre for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) at the University of Bath and her Cell Biophysics laboratory...
INTEGRA’s innovative ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot, has scooped the SelectScience Scientists’ Choice Award for Best New General Lab Product of 2018. These prestigious awards highlight the best laboratory technologies to emerge over the last year, and are uniquely nominated and voted for by laboratory scientists, truly making them the people’s choice.The multi-award winning ASSIST PLUS is designed to put automation within reach of virtually every lab, streamlining routine pipetting tasks at an affordable price....
Save the date for the UK’s only lab-dedicated exhibition showcase! More than 150 leading scientific suppliers and 3,000 attendees will descend on Lab Innovations on 30 & 31 October 2019 at the NEC, Birmingham, to discover, debate and discuss the latest scientific developments and equipment. Now in its 8th year, the UK’s only trade show dedicated to the laboratory industry continues to enjoy support from some of the UK’s leading scientific institutions and will this year....
New antibody purification robots support further company growth. Absolute Antibody Ltd., an industry-leading manufacturer of recombinant antibodies, has developed custom protein purification systems to significantly increase its antibody production throughput. The automated robots, now installed in Absolute Antibody’s newly expanded, ISO-certified manufacturing facility in Northeast England, will enable further growth for the company’s recombinant antibody...
Autoscribe Informatics has appointed NV Genomics as distributor in India for the Matrix family of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). NV Genomics, based in Delhi, is a leading service and support provider in the Biobank and Genomics domain in India, with a strong customer base in both Medical and Research sectors. Bob Blunden, Director Australasia at Autoscribe Informatics, said: “We are pleased to further extend the reach of...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, recently announced the winners of the Fisher Scientific Channel Supplier Awards during its annual Fisher Scientific European Sales Conference held in Poland. From March 4-7, 2019, almost 750 delegates attended the Fisher Scientific European Sales Conference at the Go??biewski Hotel, Karpacz, Poland. This was the eighth event of its kind, bringing together delegates from 21 different countries....
Oxford Genetics collaborates with Sphere Fluidics, the University of Edinburgh and Twist Bioscience to develop next-generation, microfluidic enabled gene editing workflows. Oxford Genetics and Sphere Fluidics announce a multi-partner collaboration to expedite the development of automated microfluidic systems for rapid and high-throughput gene editing in mammalian cell lines....
Thomas Heydler has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Eppendorf AG since January 25, 2019. He succeeds Dr. Michael Schroeder, who resigned for personal reasons. "With Thomas Heydler, we have succeeded in gaining another very experienced manager for the Eppendorf Supervisory Board. We are looking forward to this and to working with him", says Philipp von Loeper, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Eppendorf AG...
New Ocean Lab Services offering provides feasibility testing, expertise in experimental design, and consultation capabilities. Ocean Optics, the applied spectral knowledge company, has introduced a lab testing and application consultation service. Ocean Lab Services combines the company’s world-class facilities, machine learning capabilities and decades of experience in optical sensing applications to provide a range of services for various customer application...
Metrohm USA is pleased to announce the winner of its 2019 Young Chemist Award, Jeffrey Lopez. Jeffrey is a postdoctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he works under the supervision of Prof. Zhenan Bao, the K.K. Lee Professor of Chemical Engineering, and by courtesy Professor of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering. Jeffrey’s research focuses on stabilizing lithium...
Porvair Sciences has announced that its industry standard 96-well sample storage plate - the round bottom 1ml deep well microplate is now available manufactured in the USA. Produced from ultra-pure grade polypropylene, Porvair's round bottom 1ml deep well plates are certified as RNase / DNase free and contain no measurable contaminants that can leach out and contaminate your stored samples. In an independent study*, despite...
New state of the art cleanroom facilities will enable a leading international gene and cell therapy company to expand its bioprocessing operations and manufacturing capabilities. Multi-disciplinary engineering company WHP has secured the design, construction and project management contract for the development of a new viral vector manufacturing centre for Oxford BioMedica. The new facility is being established in a former...
Bidwells’ latest analysis indicates Cambridgeshire remains a magnet for science and technology companies that are looking beyond the current Brexit uncertainty. Their analysis of the Cambridge office and laboratory market finds that 0.6 million sq ft of new space will be complete during the first half of 2019. This is the highest level of new supply in over a decade. This perhaps sounds alarm bells given the apparent...
Sartorius Stedim Biotech (SSB), a leading supplier for the biopharmaceutical industry, and Novasep based in Pompey, France, have entered into a collaboration agreement in the area of chromatography and single-use bioprocessing. Novasep provides various products and services to the life science industry, based on specialized technologies. In particular, this company is a recognized system provider with substantial expertise in the design, manufacture and control of resin-based batch and continuous chromatography systems....
The city of Cambridge, a global hub for research and healthcare innovation, is to host Cambridge BioTech Week from 24-28 June 2019. The week will feature a series of events dedicated to celebrating, showcasing and accelerating the biotechnology and health technology work taking place in and around Cambridge. With events and activities organised by key players in the cluster, the Innovation Forum, the Milner Institute at the University of Cambridge, One Nucleus....
AchemAsia 2019 is setting new standards. Three months before the opening of the event on 21 May 2019 in Shanghai, the booked exhibition space already exceeds the final count of the 2016 event. Exhibitors from 15 countries have booked their stands so far, and more applications are coming in daily. Visitor registration is opening soon – even now, participants can start preparing their AchemAsia experience on the website...
Sysmex demonstrates confidence and investment in OGT and the United Kingdom. Oxford Gene Technology, The Molecular Genetics Company, has announced that it is expanding its Cytocell®operations with a move to a new facility in Cambridge, UK. Cytocell, OGT’s fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) probe brand, will be moving into the significantly larger facility on the prestigious Cambridge Science Park, due to expansion...