This annual award is sponsored by Vermont Business Magazine and KeyBank, and is presented to five Vermont businesses that have experienced the greatest growth over the past five years in five different categories. BioTek received the award in the TECHNOLOGY category for their impressive growth over five years. “It is an honor to be recognized as one of the fastest growing technology companies in Vermont” noted Briar Alpert, BioTek’s President...
In upholding the judicial review brought by Richmond Pharmacology, the court has found that the UK clinical trials regulator, the Health Research Authority (HRA), must be clear about what constitutes ‘guidance’ and what constitutes legal obligations. The ruling means that companies sponsoring phase one adult clinical trials in the UK retain control over whether and when they wish to make public the registration of previously conducted trials. Oliver Wright, solicitor at...
The award recognizes distinguished individuals who have strengthened links between the University and practical experience in business and industry, through seminars, lectures and research collaborations. Mark Egerton, CEO Quotient Clinical, said: “We are delighted that Peter has received this award and recognition. Peter joined our business in 2007 and has played a key role in developing Translational Pharmaceutics and its application to drug development...
ZEISS celebrates the 50th anniversary of commercial scanning electron microscopy (SEM). In 1965, the first commercial SEM called Stereoscan was built by Cambridge Instrument Company, a UK based predecessor company of Carl Zeiss Microscopy Ltd. To mark the anniversary of this very first SEM sale 50 years ago, and celebrate the contributions to scientific research across so many fields and industries made possible through scanning electron microscopy...
“This breakthrough will allow us to provide products that have the best of both worlds: the lightweight, break resistant properties of plastic with the barrier qualities and inert inner surface of pure glass,” said Wayne Brinster, president and CEO of WHEATON®. “For 126 years Wheaton has been an innovator in glass as well as plastic for laboratories. Customers look to us to solve their needs and this technology will allow us to develop purpose built products that blend the features of both glass and plastic into a single innovative solution....
In recent years, the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry has outperformed other sectors in terms of stock market indices. The appeal of orphan drugs and systems that reduce the cost of healthcare will continue to attract investors to fund the industry. Analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Funding Patterns in the Global Pharma and Biotech Industry, reveals the volume of venture capital (VC) deals fell by 41.2 percent between 2010 and 2014, while...
The company reports a worldwide increase in sales and support of 22.7% compared to the previous year. The outstanding performance amongst these figures was an increase in system sales of 73.6% in the UK. Autoscribe Managing Director, John Boother, said: “This is another great set of results and the company continues to enjoy a sustained period of growth due to the effort invested both in developing our products and enhancing our...
The ISO 13485 certification covers the development, production and distribution of in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) for autoimmune diseases. The certificate demonstrates that Protagen has successfully implemented a quality management system that conforms to the world-wide standard for medical device and diagnostic manufacturing. Stefan Mu?llner, Protagen CEO, stated, “We have been ISO 9001 certified for some years now. The addition of the new...
And the winners are chosen: the FRITSCH Jaw Crusher PULVERISETTE 1 premium line belongs in the category „Research and Development“ to the best solutions of the INDUSTRIEPREIS 2015 as well as again the Disk Mill PULVERISETTE 13 premium line that was already nominated in 2014. FRITSCH Jaw Crusher PULVERISETTE 1 premium line convinces. The extra powerful FRITSCH Jaw Crusher PULVERISETTE 1 premium line ensures with...
BioTek also opened its new UK office in Swindon, and along with Fisher Scientific, will bring enhanced sales, applications, technical assistance and service to support both new and existing customers. BioTek and Fisher Scientific believe the UK's biotechnology and life science sectors are growing and continue to demonstrate high quality scientific research; supported by the government's focus and investment. BioTek's new direct office and...
The new support from Europe’s long-term lending institution will be used by the leading technology commercialisation company to strengthen support for harness research ideas and turn them into commercial success. Imperial Innovations works with Europe’s top four research intensive universities in Imperial College, Oxford, Cambridge, and UCL to identify exciting university research at an early stage and develop it to build substantial, high quality...
To be established over the next few months, the new, hand-picked Board will bring together the most highly experienced scientists with extensive drug discovery backgrounds in the fields of Chronic Pain and CNS research, extending Cellectricon’s expertise in these areas. “Cellectricon is assembling a first-class team of scientists and engineers - all focused on the challenging task of developing enhanced assay technologies for early...
Donetsk National University, which recently had to leave its conflict-torn home to move to the western Ukrainian town of Vinnytsia, is now receiving a large donation of equipment from Jena. In the words of Torsten Olschewski, General Manager of the Analytical Instrumentation business unit at Analytik Jena AG: “Due to the difficult circumstances, the University is lacking technical equipment in all of its fields of endeavor, including analytical...
The two day free-to-attend programme will focus on an array of critical industry themes, including 3D Printing, Science in Space, Laboratory Safety, Best Practices and Tax Relief. Dr Geraint Morgan, Project Officer within the Faculty of Science at The Open University, will be taking to the stage on day one of the show to present ‘Down to Earth’ - a look at the first ever landing of a space craft on a comet. He will explore how the European Space...
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology (SEAHA) is an 8-year initiative (2014-2022) to establish an infrastructure to meet challenges set by the heritage sector, industry and government. Analytik have joined this project as an industrial partner and student supervisor. Analytik are leading suppliers of portable and handheld spectrometers including Visible and Near-Infrared (Vis-NIR)...
With still two and a half months to go, Nordic Life Science Days today announced that the region’s premier life sciences event is already on course for record numbers. The meeting has grown rapidly year by year and we expect more than 1000 delegates for the combined conference, partnering and exhibition to be held at Stockholm’s new Waterfront convention centre on September 9-10. For the growing number of international visitors in...
The RAFT™ System uses a patented absorber technology to create cell layers in high-density collagen that mimic the in vivo environment. This system enables researchers to generate more biologically meaningful data from their cell culture studies. The versatile RAFT™ Kit is available in a number of formats and is appropriate for analysis using a wide variety of imaging, biochemical and histological techniques. In combination with Lonza’s human...
The new building, which is adjacent to the company’s existing manufacturing facility and Technical Centre, comprises nearly 3000 square feet of office space, which initially will be allocated to the company’s expanding Engineering operations. This news comes as the company looks to further its success in the export market, having won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in April. “The new accommodation will not only give us room for growth but will...
Four further companies, uMotif Digital Health, Clearview Med. UK, MindforYou and Saflushmyss are now part of a globally-driven community of 33 start-up and growing companies who have chosen the Nottingham Enterprise Zone hub on the Boots site in Beeston as their base. MetaOptima technology is applied to the identification and management of skin conditions, in particular the early detection of skin cancers. The team has developed the first home...
These new centres will provide the company’s clients in pharma and CROs with an expanding pool of patients. The population of Central and Eastern European countries exceeds that of either the US or the five largest Western European markets combined[i], coupled with its excellent healthcare professionals, which is the reason it has continued to remain important to the clinical trials market. Synexus which is based in the UK is the world’s...
A keynote entitled ‘Is Science Facilities Management Rocket Science? By Kim Toufectis of NASA, one of the world’s largest employers of scientists and engineers, and covering topics such as the impact of changing science requirements on lab design, and successful project management. More than 20 case studies of new and refurbished laboratories from all branches of STEM research and teaching (aquaria and marine science, biology, chemistry...