The Pittcon Organizing Committee is pleased to announce that Charles “Chuck” Gardner was named president for Pittcon 2019.
Chuck has been a volunteer member of Committee since 1987. Since then, he has served in a number of key leadership positions including secretary of the board of directors and treasurer and was chairman for both the program and exposition committees. In his professional career, Dr. Gardner is the director of product management at ChemImage Corporation where he leads the development of microscopic and standoff hyperspectral imaging systems for...
Life science companies combine expertise to enhance transcriptome research
Takara Bio USA, Inc. (TBUSA, formerly Clontech Laboratories, Inc.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc., and Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) today announced a new collaboration to support targeted RNA sequencing. This relationship will leverage IDT’s unrivalled proficiency in the manufacture and quality control of long oligonucleotides and TBUSA’s expertise in developing low-input solutions for...
Xylem Inc., a leading global water technology company dedicated to solving the world’s most challenging water issues, announces an expansion of products and services available through direct channels in North America.
Working together with Lab Synergy, this agreement supports Xylem’s strategic goals to expand geographically and accelerate growth. Lab Synergy has been the exclusive distributor of Xylem’s SI Analytics titration products in North America, and has been a key Xylem partner for many years. With deep technical application expertise in industries such as food and beverage, pharmaceutical and life science...
Science World, the trade fair in the world of the laboratory, will be held for the 1st time in France September 29, 2016, at the Palais de la Musique des Congrès.
Science World is EVENT for anyone working in the scientific or industrial field. With over 700 visitors and some 60 exhibitors expected, this is a unique opportunity to watch demonstrations of thousands of laboratory products and participate in workshops and technical conferences by experts in their field. We also reserve you beautiful surprises...
The human cell culture specialists launch primary cell and tissue sourcing service for difficult-to-find samples
Axol Bioscience, a biotechnology company specialising in the supply of primary and stem cell-derived human cells for use in disease modelling and drug discovery, announces the launch of its Custom Cell and Tissue Sourcing service. The new service will be of use to all researchers working in these areas who require access to primary human cells and tissues. These can be difficult to obtain, especially when studying...
To Continue Building Analytical Capabilities for Testing Drugs and Vaccines
Sartorius Stedim BioOutsource, a leading provider of contract testing services to the biopharmaceutical industry, is pleased to announce that it is looking to almost double the scientific workforce at its Glasgow facilities in 2016. The new staff will help to meet increasing global demand for the firm’s analytical expertise in testing a wide range of biologics-based drugs and vaccines. BioOutsource’s facilities in Glasgow have...
MR Solutions, of Guildford has won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the innovation category.
This award is announced on the Queen’s birthday, 21April and is one of the UK’s highest accolades recognising business achievement. This has been achieved in recognition of MR Solutions’ development of a preclinical multi-modality MRI scanner which does away with the need for liquid helium cooling. In order for high powered MRI scanners to operate the magnet needs to be cooled to a very low...
BioTek Instruments is pleased to announce its collaboration with Merck on an integrated solution for long-term live cell experiments and dynamic time-lapse analyses, including automated cell perfusion and imaging.
The solution leverages each company’s respective expertise, and consists of BioTek’s new Lionheart™ FX Automated Live Cell Imager and Merck’s new CellASIC® ONIX2 Microfluidic System. This collaborative solution was introduced at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting recently held in New Orleans, LA. The Lionheart FX Automated Live Cell Imager is optimized for live cell...
Hakim Yadi, chief executive of the Northern Health Science Alliance, responded to the report issued by MedCity today forecasting a shortage of lab space in London.
He said: “The North has invested heavily in wet lab space and has an abundance of available low-cost space for companies looking to work in close proximity to leading hospitals and universities such as the stellar facilities at Alderley Park near Manchester, City Labs in the centre of Manchester, NETpark and the Wilton Centre in Durham and Teesside, and the new Liverpool Science Park...
ARGENX announced today having signed a major deal with AbbVie in the field of immuno-oncology.
This deal is the result of a highly productive collaboration between ARGENX, a biotech company, and the teams of Professors Pierre Coulie and Sophie Lucas of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), who are recognized worldwide as leaders in the field of immuno-oncology. This collaboration has resulted in an innovative therapeutic approach to stimulate the immune system of cancer patients...
Jenway offer four ranges of visible and UV/visible spectrophotometers which have been designed to suit a wide range of budgets, industries and applications.
The 73 series range of spectrophotometers includes two basic models for simple photometrics and concentration; two advanced models with the addition of spectrum scanning, quantitation curves and kinetics; and two models which are dedicated to life science analysis, including the Genova Nano, which is ideal for micro-volume samples.
The company will launch its breakthrough technology-platform dedicated to identifying next-generation therapeutic peptides
PeptiMimesis, a biopharma company dedicated to the discovery and development of therapeutic transmembrane peptides, today announces the release of the €0.5m ($0.6m) first tranche of a €1.2m ($1.4m) investment made by Cap Innov’Est, a regionally-based seed fund. The company will use this funding to initiate its research activities on the design and characterization of transmembrane peptides...
Renowned neurodegenerative disease pioneer joins the stem cell disease model specialists
Axol Bioscience, a biotechnology company, specialising in the use of stem cell technology to manufacture disease-relevant cell based assay systems for drug discovery and disease modelling, today announced that Steve Finkbeiner, MD, PhD has joined its Scientific Advisory Board. Dr Finkbeiner is a leading neuroscientist who will guide Axol in expanding its range of induced pluripotent stem cell...
Leader in the development and manufacture of transfusion diagnostic products awarded prestigious Queen’s Award for outstanding achievement in international trade
Quotient Limited (NASDAQ:QTNT), a commercial-stage diagnostics company, today announced that its UK subsidiary, Alba Bioscience Limited (“Alba”), has been awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the category of outstanding achievement in international trade. Alba develops, manufactures and commercializes products for the global market. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are...
Genomics plc have announced that it has entered into a research collaboration with DNAnexus, the global leader in cloud-based genome informatics and data management.
The companies will work together to improve researchers’ ability to analyse population-scale sequencing data. With DNA sequencing costs continuing to fall, sequencing projects involving tens or hundreds of thousands of people are becoming increasingly common. Such projects include Genomics England’s 100,000 Genomes Project, and the Regeneron Genetics Center and Geisinger Health DiscovEHR...
eMolecules Inc. and World Fusion US, Inc. today announced a global partnership resulting in the integration of eMolecules’ drug discovery ecommerce solutions with World Fusion’s “Life Science Knowledge Bank” (LSKB).
“We are really excited about the opportunities that this partnership creates and we view this as a great start in our vision of enabling the Japanese marketplace to reduce the time and cost of drug discovery” said Dr. Niko Gubernator, CEO at eMolecules, Inc. “Not only does this partnership extend our reach into the Japanese marketplace, but the integration of World Fusion’s LSKB informatics platform with...
Agena Bioscience to provide Horizon’s human genomic reference standards to assess quality and performance of oncology-based assays on the MassARRAY System
Agena Bioscience (“Agena”) and Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon") today announced a Supply and Distribution agreement to launch iPLEX® reference standards for performance verification of oncology assays used on the MassARRAY® System. Under the partnership, Agena Bioscience will offer multiplexed sets of iPLEX-branded reference standards containing somatic variants in...
GÉANT, Europe?s leading collaboration on network and related infrastructure for research and education, has signed a partnership agreement with Microsoft to act as network connectivity provider for Microsoft?s Azure ExpressRoutes service.
This will connect Microsoft?s cloud services directly to Europe?s vital research and education community, and represents further growth in the portfolio of above-the-net services offered by GÉANT and its National Research and Education Network (NREN) partners to over 50 million users at 10,000 institutions. Microsoft Azure ExpressRoutes enables institutions to extend their on-premises network into the...
St Neots-based Kinesis is celebrating after being named a winner of the UK’s highest accolade for business success - The Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade.
The awards are made annually by HM The Queen, and this year coincide with Her Majesty’s 90th birthday on April 21st. Kinesis are one of the select businesses recognised as winners of the 2016 Queen’s Award, which the company has received due to their outstanding success in International Trade. The award was made in recognition of achieving continuous growth in export sales over the last six years of...
Following record sales in 2015 and into the first quarter of this year, Freeman Technology, a global leader in the development and application of powder characterisation techniques, has expanded its European network as well as its operations in China.
“Continued growth is, of course, highly encouraging and a tribute to the team,” said Tim Freeman, Managing Director of Freeman Technology. “New partnerships in Italy, and the Czech Republic, along with our recent expansion of the China team, underline our commitment to maintaining exemplary service across the globe, as we grow. The recent launch of the Uniaxial Powder Tester also emphasises our...
BioTek Instruments, Inc., a global leader in microplate instrument technology, is pleased to announce the addition of Traditional Chinese to the growing list of languages available on www.biotek.com.
The expansion will enhance native ease-of-use and comprehension, especially for those in the rapidly growing Taiwanese biomedical and biotechnology industries. “Language connects people, creates opportunities and helps us discover the world,” notes Jack Lu, General Manager of BioTek Taiwan. “BioTek’s traditional Chinese language web site will allow researchers and scientists to quickly and comfortably find...
At the 57th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference, Bruker announced new GHz-class NMR magnet and probe technologies to enable expanding frontiers in structural biology, membrane protein and intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) research.
Bruker has successfully installed the world’s first, next-generation 1GHz NMR system equipped with an actively-shielded Aeon™ 1 GHz magnet at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Active shielding reduces the space requirements for the two-story magnet by more than an order of magnitude, and makes siting of next-generation Aeon 1 GHz magnets...
Chuck has been a volunteer member of Committee since 1987. Since then, he has served in a number of key leadership positions including secretary of the board of directors and treasurer and was chairman for both the program and exposition committees. In his professional career, Dr. Gardner is the director of product management at ChemImage Corporation where he leads the development of microscopic and standoff hyperspectral imaging systems for...
Takara Bio USA, Inc. (TBUSA, formerly Clontech Laboratories, Inc.), a wholly owned subsidiary of Takara Bio Inc., and Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) today announced a new collaboration to support targeted RNA sequencing. This relationship will leverage IDT’s unrivalled proficiency in the manufacture and quality control of long oligonucleotides and TBUSA’s expertise in developing low-input solutions for...
Working together with Lab Synergy, this agreement supports Xylem’s strategic goals to expand geographically and accelerate growth. Lab Synergy has been the exclusive distributor of Xylem’s SI Analytics titration products in North America, and has been a key Xylem partner for many years. With deep technical application expertise in industries such as food and beverage, pharmaceutical and life science...
Science World is EVENT for anyone working in the scientific or industrial field. 
Axol Bioscience, a biotechnology company specialising in the supply of primary and stem cell-derived human cells for use in disease modelling and drug discovery, announces the launch of its Custom Cell and Tissue Sourcing service. The new service will be of use to all researchers working in these areas who require access to primary human cells and tissues. These can be difficult to obtain, especially when studying...
Sartorius Stedim BioOutsource, a leading provider of contract testing services to the biopharmaceutical industry, is pleased to announce that it is looking to almost double the scientific workforce at its Glasgow facilities in 2016. The new staff will help to meet increasing global demand for the firm’s analytical expertise in testing a wide range of biologics-based drugs and vaccines. BioOutsource’s facilities in Glasgow have...
This award is announced on the Queen’s birthday, 21April and is one of the UK’s highest accolades recognising business achievement. This has been achieved in recognition of MR Solutions’ development of a preclinical multi-modality MRI scanner which does away with the need for liquid helium cooling. In order for high powered MRI scanners to operate the magnet needs to be cooled to a very low...
The solution leverages each company’s respective expertise, and consists of BioTek’s new Lionheart™ FX Automated Live Cell Imager and Merck’s new CellASIC® ONIX2 Microfluidic System. This collaborative solution was introduced at the American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting recently held in New Orleans, LA. The Lionheart FX Automated Live Cell Imager is optimized for live cell...
He said: “The North has invested heavily in wet lab space and has an abundance of available low-cost space for companies looking to work in close proximity to leading hospitals and universities such as the stellar facilities at Alderley Park near Manchester, City Labs in the centre of Manchester, NETpark and the Wilton Centre in Durham and Teesside, and the new Liverpool Science Park...
This deal is the result of a highly productive collaboration between ARGENX, a biotech company, and the teams of Professors Pierre Coulie and Sophie Lucas of the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), who are recognized worldwide as leaders in the field of immuno-oncology. This collaboration has resulted in an innovative therapeutic approach to stimulate the immune system of cancer patients...
The 73 series range of spectrophotometers includes two basic models for simple photometrics and concentration; two advanced models with the addition of spectrum scanning, quantitation curves and kinetics; and two models which are dedicated to life science analysis, including the Genova Nano, which is ideal for micro-volume samples.
PeptiMimesis, a biopharma company dedicated to the discovery and development of therapeutic transmembrane peptides, today announces the release of the €0.5m ($0.6m) first tranche of a €1.2m ($1.4m) investment made by Cap Innov’Est, a regionally-based seed fund. The company will use this funding to initiate its research activities on the design and characterization of transmembrane peptides...
Quotient Limited (NASDAQ:QTNT), a commercial-stage diagnostics company, today announced that its UK subsidiary, Alba Bioscience Limited (“Alba”), has been awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the category of outstanding achievement in international trade. Alba develops, manufactures and commercializes products for the global market. The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are...
The companies will work together to improve researchers’ ability to analyse population-scale sequencing data. With DNA sequencing costs continuing to fall, sequencing projects involving tens or hundreds of thousands of people are becoming increasingly common. Such projects include Genomics England’s 100,000 Genomes Project, and the Regeneron Genetics Center and Geisinger Health DiscovEHR...
“We are really excited about the opportunities that this partnership creates and we view this as a great start in our vision of enabling the Japanese marketplace to reduce the time and cost of drug discovery” said Dr. Niko Gubernator, CEO at eMolecules, Inc. “Not only does this partnership extend our reach into the Japanese marketplace, but the integration of World Fusion’s LSKB informatics platform with...
Agena Bioscience (“Agena”) and Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE: HZD) ("Horizon") today announced a Supply and Distribution agreement to launch iPLEX® reference standards for performance verification of oncology assays used on the MassARRAY® System. Under the partnership, Agena Bioscience will offer multiplexed sets of iPLEX-branded reference standards containing somatic variants in...
This will connect Microsoft?s cloud services directly to Europe?s vital research and education community, and represents further growth in the portfolio of above-the-net services offered by GÉANT and its National Research and Education Network (NREN) partners to over 50 million users at 10,000 institutions. Microsoft Azure ExpressRoutes enables institutions to extend their on-premises network into the...
The awards are made annually by HM The Queen, and this year coincide with Her Majesty’s 90th birthday on April 21st. Kinesis are one of the select businesses recognised as winners of the 2016 Queen’s Award, which the company has received due to their outstanding success in International Trade. The award was made in recognition of achieving continuous growth in export sales over the last six years of...
“Continued growth is, of course, highly encouraging and a tribute to the team,” said Tim Freeman, Managing Director of Freeman Technology. “New partnerships in Italy, and the Czech Republic, along with our recent expansion of the China team, underline our commitment to maintaining exemplary service across the globe, as we grow. The recent launch of the Uniaxial Powder Tester also emphasises our...
The expansion will enhance native ease-of-use and comprehension, especially for those in the rapidly growing Taiwanese biomedical and biotechnology industries. “Language connects people, creates opportunities and helps us discover the world,” notes Jack Lu, General Manager of BioTek Taiwan. “BioTek’s traditional Chinese language web site will allow researchers and scientists to quickly and comfortably find...
Bruker has successfully installed the world’s first, next-generation 1GHz NMR system equipped with an actively-shielded Aeon™ 1 GHz magnet at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Active shielding reduces the space requirements for the two-story magnet by more than an order of magnitude, and makes siting of next-generation Aeon 1 GHz magnets...