Oxford Global is proud to present its 16th Annual Drug Discovery Summit and the co-located 3rd Annual Discovery Chemistry & Drug Design Congress taking place in Berlin on the 8th and 9th of June 2015.
Over the years the congress has taken place in Geneva, however this year it will be held at the Hotel Palace Berlin in Germany. Our prestigious Summit brings together prominent decision makers working at the forefront of research into target based discovery, phenotypic screening, preclinical biomarkers, and medicinal chemistry. Over 250 delegates will be representing leading biotech companies, global pharmaceutical organisations and...
Savings of up to 50% offered to help upskill workforces in the pharma, biotech and medical device sectors
Pharmaceutical Training International (PTI), the leading supplier of online and public event-based training courses for the pharma, biotech and medical device sectors, is now providing up to 50% concession per learner per course. Following its recent introduction of innovative game-based e-learning modules, PTI is providing the opportunity to make substantial savings on its full range of training courses to start-ups and SMEs (with fewer than...
Freeman Technology, the powder characterisation specialists, will be exhibiting the FT4 Powder Rheometer®, a universal powder tester, at ACHEMA 2015 (Frankfurt, Germany; 15-19 June 2015), and will be distributing the recently released booklet ‘The Value of Powder Testing’.
Visitors will have the opportunity to discuss their individual powder processing challenges with the Freeman Technology team on stand 4.2 L36, where they will be able to see a demonstration of the FT4 Powder Rheometer and collect a copy of ‘The Value of Powder Testing’, the third in a series of educational guides on powder characterisation. The booklet evaluates the economic benefits that can be realised by incorporating relevant powder tests into an operation. It addresses key questions such as what makes...
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), the international life science company supplying research tools and services that power genomics research and the development of personalized medicines, today announced it has signed a supply and commercialization agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science.
Under the terms of the agreement, Thermo Fisher will market and distribute Horizon’s X-MAN human haploid and diploid isogenic cell line collection and will further offer Horizon’s X-MAN haploid cell line generation service to its worldwide customer base. The X-MAN cell line range represents an extensive bank of genetically defined human cell lines – models that accurately exhibit disease-causing genetics, and have undergone a high degree of...
Analytik Jena’s PlasmaQuant ® MS was presented to the public at the Analytica Expo in Moscow during a workshop held at the Analytik Jena booth.
Used for element trace analysis, the system is suitable for a wide range of routine applications in environmental analysis, food safety, mining, chemistry, and petrochemistry. A workshop, held on April 14, and a conference devoted to ICP methods, which followed on April 15, were attended by leading scientists and experts in mass spectroscopy. The outstanding presentation made by Iouri Kalinitchenko, Head of Research and Development for ICP-MS, which...
Company raises $5M from Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital to scale up commercial operations.
Benchling, Inc., a leading-developer of cloud based tools for life science, today announced the launch of its new platform which accelerates R&D by tracking experiment details, facilitating collaboration, and streamlining data analysis. The company also announced that it closed $5 million in new financing led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Thrive Capital. As biotech R&D becomes increasingly distributed across organizations...
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK), leading manufacturer of analytical thermal desorbers and time-of-flight mass spectrometers, has today had its export success recognised through receiving a Queen’s Award for Enterprise.
The accolade, in the International Trade category, was received for demonstrating ‘outstanding achievement’ in overseas earnings, sustained over a period of at least three years. Alun Cole, Managing Director of Markes International, said "It is an honour to be recognised by Her Majesty the Queen for the strength of our export business, and I believe it reflects many years of hard work and dedication from everyone at Markes...
PlasmaQuant® MS Mass Spectrometer One of the Top Three Nominations for the Innovation Award
At this year’s Forum LABO & BIOTECH, the most important industry trade fair for analytics, laboratory technology, and biotechnology, Analytik Jena AG’s new PlasmaQuant® MS mass spectrometer was one of the top three nominations for the trade fair’s Innovation Award in the category Productivity and Profitability. With this award, Forum LABO & BIOTECH recognizes product innovations in which particular emphasis was placed on ease of use...
Interface between StarDrop and Plexus facilitates seamless access to both software platforms
Optibrium™ and ChemAxon™, developers of software and cheminformatics solutions for drug discovery, today announced the results of a collaboration to integrate ChemAxon’s Plexus™ with Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software suite. The integration of these platforms further enables researchers to develop strategies for efficient, high quality compound library design. The StarDrop software platform from Optibrium facilitates multi-parameter optimisation...
The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce that they are currently accepting proposals for Symposia, Workshops, and Organized Contributed Sessions for the 2016 Technical Program.
The submission deadline is April 17, 2015. All proposals must be submitted electronically at www.pittcon.org. Proposals for symposia are being sought in all areas of analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy. In addition to the classical analytical and spectroscopic topics, areas such as bioanalytical chemistry, nanotechnology, environmental analysis, food analysis, forensics, chemical applications in art conservation, education, energy...
Rigaku Raman Technologies, a leading pioneer of handheld and portable Raman spectrometers, is delighted to announce that they have achieved ISO 9001:2008, certified by the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) for its new manufacturing facility.
Rigaku achieved certification by demonstrating compliance with the industry-accepted, quality management standards for the design, development, manufacture, and support of hardware and software for portable scientific instruments. Rigaku is committed to manufacturing high quality Raman analyzers for the pharmaceutical industry and the achievement of ISO certification will enable the company to continue to lead the way in...
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group strengthens its biopharmaceutical offering through the acquisition of ASEPCO® Corporation (Asepco).
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG), the world leader in niche peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies, has acquired Asepco through its parent company Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, for £7.0 million. Asepco, based in California USA, specialises in the design and manufacture of high purity aseptic valves and magnetic mixers for the bioprocessing industry. Asepco is a natural extension of the Watson-Marlow...
A new customer survey published early in 2015 by Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) specialist, Autoscribe, has shown an across-the-board increase in customer satisfaction levels compared to a similar survey carried out in 2013.
In addition response levels to the survey, which was conducted in both the USA and UK, was up nearly fourfold. The survey contains a number of questions which allow customers to rate some aspect of the Matrix LIMS products or the service provided by Autoscribe on a scale of 1-10. Every survey question with this metric showed an improvement. Autoscribe Managing Director, John Boother, said: “We are absolutely delighted with...
BioTek Instruments, a global leader in microplate instrumentation technology, recently received the '2014 Supplier of the Year' award from Fisher Scientific, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific.
The award was presented to BioTek in Phoenix, Arizona at Fisher Scientific’s annual meeting. Fisher Scientific annually presents this award to the supplier that best exemplifies outstanding overall performance and support in a number of categories including percent growth, marketing participation, new product development and on time delivery to help grow Fisher’s North American business. This prestigious award was presented by David Koi...
Kinesis and Trajan Scientific and Medical (Trajan) are pleased to announce Kinesis as an approved distribution partner for the SGE Analytical Science (SGE) range of Chromatography Consumables in the US.
SGE is a Trajan brand, established in 1960 and integrated into Trajan in 2013. The SGE brand is well known for its diamond syringe quality and is the global market leader in niche areas such as autosampler syringes and GC inlet liners. Trajan’s focus is on developing and commercializing technologies that enable analytical systems to be more selective, sensitive and specific for biological, environmental or food related measurements especially...
Offering Medical Laboratories a One-stop Shop for Calibrating a Range of Laboratory Equipment to Comply with ISO 15189
Sartorius UK, a leading laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment supplier, is delighted to announce that it has been granted an extension to its UKAS ISO17025 for servicing centrifuges. This means that medical laboratories can now access UKAS accredited servicing for on-site or remote testing and calibration of pipettes, balances and centrifuges from one UK-based supplier.As part of the drive for standardised quality testing in the UK, medical laboratories...
The first Photonics Technology Roadshow of 2015 visited the University of Southampton in March for a special event celebrating the launch of an EPSRC funded project on the manufacturing and application of Chalcogenide glasses including an exhibition of over 40 companies and a programme of technology tutorials.
Attendance numbers beat previous records for a one-day Roadshow event. Partners within the Chalcogenide Advanced Materials Partnership (ChAMP) conference at Southampton (Heriot-Watt, Exeter, Oxford and Cambridge Universities) were welcomed by Dan Hewak, who leads the ChAMP Partnership. He explained, "Unlike many large research collaborations which hold open days near the end of their project to communicate their results, we...
Greg Clark MP, Minister for Universities, Science and Cities, has announced today that The N8 Research Partnership has secured multi-million pound funding for a programme which is set to transform food security research in the UK.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has awarded The N8 Research Partnership – a partnership of the eight research-intensive universities in the North of England (Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York) – a grant of £7,999,254 through its Catalyst Fund to develop its Agri-Food Resilience programme. This will be matched equally by the N8 universities. A multi-disciplinary initiative...
Malvern Instruments will showcase their expanding range of products for the life science and industrial sectors at ACHEMA 2015.
The four-day event (15-19 June) being held in Frankfurt, Germany will be the first major European outing for the latest additions to Malvern’s recently acquired MicroCal microcalorimetry range and for the innovative OMNISEC GPC/SEC platform. Visit the Malvern stand in Hall 4.1, stand number D59. Malvern’s products for life scientists provide information to drive drug discovery and development. Center stage will be the recently...
Groundbreaking keynote addresses by Genomics England and Google for Work showcasing global leadership in connectivity and convergence driven innovation at GIL 2015: Europe in London
We are living a connected life in a connected world. Our smartphone is our gateway to the world and very soon we will be able to connect our glasses, watch, thermostat, lights, door locks and car. The connected life market has been valued by Frost & Sullivan at over $700 billion by 2020, but are companies prepared to drive and manage this change to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving world in which we live? Nina Bjornstad, Country Manager at...
Market leaders in temperature controlled microscopy, Linkam Scientific Instruments, in partnership with Cyversa announce the availability of VISTA, a visual approach to thermal analysis.
The product made its debut at TAC 2015, Churchill College, Cambridge, March 30th – April 1st. Linkam Scientific Instruments have collaborated with renowned UK inventor and innovating researcher, Professor Mike Reading of the University of Huddersfield. They have developed a product line of instrumentation based on new technologies that are announced at the 50th Anniversary meeting of the UK's Thermal Methods Group at...
Horizon’s Reference Materials chosen by ArcherDX to validate its FusionPlex test for non-small cell lung cancer markers
Horizon Discovery Group plc (LSE:HZD) (Horizon), the international life science company supplying research tools and services that power genomics research and the development of personalized medicines, and ArcherDX, Inc., a leader in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) fusion detection, today announced they have signed an Original Equipment Manufacture (OEM) agreement that will see Horizon’s Reference Materials supplied as a standalone...
Pharmaceutical Training International (PTI), the leading supplier of online and public event-based training courses for the pharma, biotech and medical device sectors, is now providing up to 50% concession per learner per course. Following its recent introduction of innovative game-based e-learning modules, PTI is providing the opportunity to make substantial savings on its full range of training courses to start-ups and SMEs (with fewer than...
Visitors will have the opportunity to discuss their individual powder processing challenges with the Freeman Technology team on stand 4.2 L36, where they will be able to see a demonstration of the FT4 Powder Rheometer and collect a copy of ‘The Value of Powder Testing’, the third in a series of educational guides on powder characterisation. The booklet evaluates the economic benefits that can be realised by incorporating relevant powder tests into an operation. It addresses key questions such as what makes...
Under the terms of the agreement, Thermo Fisher will market and distribute Horizon’s X-MAN human haploid and diploid isogenic cell line collection and will further offer Horizon’s X-MAN haploid cell line generation service to its worldwide customer base. The X-MAN cell line range represents an extensive bank of genetically defined human cell lines – models that accurately exhibit disease-causing genetics, and have undergone a high degree of...
Used for element trace analysis, the system is suitable for a wide range of routine applications in environmental analysis, food safety, mining, chemistry, and petrochemistry. A workshop, held on April 14, and a conference devoted to ICP methods, which followed on April 15, were attended by leading scientists and experts in mass spectroscopy. The outstanding presentation made by Iouri Kalinitchenko, Head of Research and Development for ICP-MS, which...
Benchling, Inc., a leading-developer of cloud based tools for life science, today announced the launch of its new platform which accelerates R&D by tracking experiment details, facilitating collaboration, and streamlining data analysis. The company also announced that it closed $5 million in new financing led by Andreessen Horowitz with participation from Thrive Capital. As biotech R&D becomes increasingly distributed across organizations...
The accolade, in the International Trade category, was received for demonstrating ‘outstanding achievement’ in overseas earnings, sustained over a period of at least three years. Alun Cole, Managing Director of Markes International, said "It is an honour to be recognised by Her Majesty the Queen for the strength of our export business, and I believe it reflects many years of hard work and dedication from everyone at Markes...
At this year’s Forum LABO & BIOTECH, the most important industry trade fair for analytics, laboratory technology, and biotechnology, Analytik Jena AG’s new PlasmaQuant® MS mass spectrometer was one of the top three nominations for the trade fair’s Innovation Award in the category Productivity and Profitability. With this award, Forum LABO & BIOTECH recognizes product innovations in which particular emphasis was placed on ease of use...
Optibrium™ and ChemAxon™, developers of software and cheminformatics solutions for drug discovery, today announced the results of a collaboration to integrate ChemAxon’s Plexus™ with Optibrium’s StarDrop™ software suite. The integration of these platforms further enables researchers to develop strategies for efficient, high quality compound library design. The StarDrop software platform from Optibrium facilitates multi-parameter optimisation...
The submission deadline is April 17, 2015. All proposals must be submitted electronically at www.pittcon.org. Proposals for symposia are being sought in all areas of analytical chemistry and applied spectroscopy. In addition to the classical analytical and spectroscopic topics, areas such as bioanalytical chemistry, nanotechnology, environmental analysis, food analysis, forensics, chemical applications in art conservation, education, energy...
Rigaku achieved certification by demonstrating compliance with the industry-accepted, quality management standards for the design, development, manufacture, and support of hardware and software for portable scientific instruments. Rigaku is committed to manufacturing high quality Raman analyzers for the pharmaceutical industry and the achievement of ISO certification will enable the company to continue to lead the way in...
Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Group (WMFTG), the world leader in niche peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies, has acquired Asepco through its parent company Spirax-Sarco Engineering plc, for £7.0 million. Asepco, based in California USA, specialises in the design and manufacture of high purity aseptic valves and magnetic mixers for the bioprocessing industry. Asepco is a natural extension of the Watson-Marlow...
In addition response levels to the survey, which was conducted in both the USA and UK, was up nearly fourfold. The survey contains a number of questions which allow customers to rate some aspect of the Matrix LIMS products or the service provided by Autoscribe on a scale of 1-10. Every survey question with this metric showed an improvement. Autoscribe Managing Director, John Boother, said: “We are absolutely delighted with...
The award was presented to BioTek in Phoenix, Arizona at Fisher Scientific’s annual meeting. Fisher Scientific annually presents this award to the supplier that best exemplifies outstanding overall performance and support in a number of categories including percent growth, marketing participation, new product development and on time delivery to help grow Fisher’s North American business. This prestigious award was presented by David Koi...
SGE is a Trajan brand, established in 1960 and integrated into Trajan in 2013. The SGE brand is well known for its diamond syringe quality and is the global market leader in niche areas such as autosampler syringes and GC inlet liners. Trajan’s focus is on developing and commercializing technologies that enable analytical systems to be more selective, sensitive and specific for biological, environmental or food related measurements especially...
Sartorius UK, a leading laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment supplier, is delighted to announce that it has been granted an extension to its UKAS ISO17025 for servicing centrifuges. This means that medical laboratories can now access UKAS accredited servicing for on-site or remote testing and calibration of pipettes, balances and centrifuges from one UK-based supplier.As part of the drive for standardised quality testing in the UK, medical laboratories...
Attendance numbers beat previous records for a one-day Roadshow event. Partners within the Chalcogenide Advanced Materials Partnership (ChAMP) conference at Southampton (Heriot-Watt, Exeter, Oxford and Cambridge Universities) were welcomed by Dan Hewak, who leads the ChAMP Partnership. He explained, "Unlike many large research collaborations which hold open days near the end of their project to communicate their results, we...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has awarded The N8 Research Partnership – a partnership of the eight research-intensive universities in the North of England (Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York) – a grant of £7,999,254 through its Catalyst Fund to develop its Agri-Food Resilience programme. This will be matched equally by the N8 universities. A multi-disciplinary initiative...
The four-day event (15-19 June) being held in Frankfurt, Germany will be the first major European outing for the latest additions to Malvern’s recently acquired MicroCal microcalorimetry range and for the innovative OMNISEC GPC/SEC platform. Visit the Malvern stand in Hall 4.1, stand number D59. Malvern’s products for life scientists provide information to drive drug discovery and development. Center stage will be the recently...
We are living a connected life in a connected world. Our smartphone is our gateway to the world and very soon we will be able to connect our glasses, watch, thermostat, lights, door locks and car. The connected life market has been valued by Frost & Sullivan at over $700 billion by 2020, but are companies prepared to drive and manage this change to stay ahead of the rapidly evolving world in which we live? Nina Bjornstad, Country Manager at...
The product made its debut at TAC 2015, Churchill College, Cambridge, March 30th – April 1st. Linkam Scientific Instruments have collaborated with renowned UK inventor and innovating researcher, Professor Mike Reading of the University of Huddersfield. They have developed a product line of instrumentation based on new technologies that are announced at the 50th Anniversary meeting of the UK's Thermal Methods Group at...