The CIPS Sustainability is a collaboration between the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, the University of West England (UWE) and PRGX. With research indicating that there were limited cross-industry standards to assess all three pillars of sustainability for both suppliers and buyers, the CIPS Sustainability Index was developed by the team to create a consistent sustainability measurement to support purchasing and, in doing so, create significant time and cost efficiencies....
North West pharmaceutical company Proveca Limited has reached its fourth key agreement with the European Medicines Agency (EMA) that will enable the development of a fourth drug designed specifically for children and young people.
The EMA’s Paediatric Committee (PDCO) adopted a positive opinion on the paediatric investigation plan (PIP) for the development of captopril – a drug designed to treat heart failure in children. The adoption of the PIP provides Proveca with an agreed programme for the future development of the drug. It will deliver the required quality, safety and efficacy data needed for a future licence of captopril for children throughout Europe...
Comprehensive service offering and trend for outsourced chemistry results in company’s best ever year
Peakdale Molecular, a leading UK provider of medicinal chemistry and chemistry services, is celebrating its most successful year ever for revenues and earnings since the company’s inception in 1992. Offering specialised chemistry services for early phase drug and diagnostics discovery, Peakdale has experienced a significant increase in demand from pharma R&D operations in particular. Following long-term investment in facilities and...
Concept Life Sciences, an international scientific laboratory and consultancy business, with a combined enterprise value approaching $100 million, has today announced the appointment of Matthew S. Jones as Chief Commercial Officer.
In this role, Mr Jones will be responsible for leading Concepts’ global commercial organisation, which encompasses all sales, business development, marketing activities, and strategic partnering efforts. A veteran of the life sciences industry with almost two decades of experience, Jones joins Concept Life Sciences having transformed, led and driven commercial growth strategies for a diverse range of life science businesses both in Europe and the...
ZEISS is receiving Research & Development award once more
ZEISS ELYRA P.1 with 3D-PALM has been selected by the expert judges and editors of R&D Magazine as a recipient of a 2014 R&D 100 Award. The patented exclusive PALM technology of ZEISS ELYRA P.1 is regarded as one of 100 most significant high-technology products introduced in the past year. As its name suggests, the 3D-PALM module enables superresolution photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) in 3D. With ELYRA P.1 and 3D-PALM, researchers can...
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) has acquired the SURVEYOR® enzyme business of Transgenomic, Inc.
Already the world leader in custom nucleic acid synthesis, IDT is expanding its molecular biology product offerings by adding the SURVEYOR enzyme and kits. As part of the agreement with Transgenomic, IDT will acquire the SURVEYOR product line and intellectual property. Transgenomic will receive an exclusive license for clinical and diagnostic use of SURVEYOR products from IDT. Additional terms of the acquisition were not disclosed...
FLIR Systems has chosen the Photonex exhibition, being held at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry (UK) on 15th and 16th October 2014, to present its market-leading high performance thermal imaging camera range to the UK market.
Visitors to Stand C17 will have the chance to discuss and see demonstrated FLIR Systems innovative X8400sc HD thermal imaging camera and the Ultra-fast X6580sc thermal imaging camera. With a highly sensitive InSb detector, mega pixel resolution, advanced functionality, and cutting edge design, the FLIR X8400sc high definition camera sets a new standard for research and science thermography...
STFC’s Innovations Technology Access Centre (I-TAC) has strengthened its imaging capabilities by installing additional Hitachi benchtop SEMs at both its Harwell and Daresbury campuses.
These two instruments represent the 100th and 101st benchtop SEM’s installed by Hitachi in the UK, with over 600 now being used around Europe. STFC’s I-TAC initiative provides flexible access to lab space and equipment to over 60 companies working in bioscience, energy, space technologies, advanced materials and chemical engineering. This flexible access has enabled companies to achieve over £80 million in investment, to create over...
Autoscribe Informatics, a leading provider of database management systems, has reported record sales for the first quarter of the 2014-15 financial year.
Autoscribe’s flagship product, Matrix Gemini, is used in database management applications ranging from Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) to Quality Management Systems. Managing director, John Boother, said: “This is a superb start to the year for us and reflects the benefit of having a global presence in a number of market areas. This quarter has seen particularly strong orders from the UK with sales of...
Investment Aims to Accelerate European Adoption of Clinical Analytics for Genetic Diseases
Sophia Genetics, the European leader in Data-Driven Medicine, has raised $13.75M in Series B financing in a round led by Dr Mike Lynch’s Invoke Capital, Swisscom and Endeavour Vision. Sophia Genetics is a pioneer in Data-Driven Medicine, a crossover field that requires deep expertise in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), combined with highly accurate and scalable predictive algorithms to diagnose genetic diseases. With this investment, Sophia gains access to Invoke’s portfolio company Genalys, whose Cambridge-based mathematicians apply big data approaches to...
Spectro Scientific has earned a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II award totaling $750,000 for its work in reevaluating the Joint Oil Analysis Program (JOAP) that consolidates and coordinates the oil analysis programs of the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force.
The U.S. Small Business Administration makes the SBIR award to promote high-tech innovation in the fulfillment of specific research and development needs. The contract awarded to Spectro Scientific for Phase II efforts extends into calendar year 2016. Spectro Scientific undertook the reevaluation effort with the aim of improving the JOAP by modifying processes and/or equipment to create more effective oil analysis. The JOAP was formed following...
Lab Bulletin is pleased to be working with Easy Fairs again this year in helping promote the Lab Innovations Exhibition & Conference being held at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham 5th – 6th November. Lab Bulletin will be sending out a dedicated e-Newsletter to our European circulation consisting of over 23,000 readers on the 14th October and would like to offer all exhibitors at Lab Innovations the opportunity to promote their presence at the show.....
Robin Ince is headlining the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) conference, at Lab Innovations on 5 & 6 November 2014 at Birmingham’s NEC. Robin Ince, a stand-up comedian, actor and writer, famous for popularising science, will deliver a keynote address on the image of scientists.
Ince is talking on day one of Lab Innovations, the UK’s only event dedicated to laboratory equipment, technology and services. Ince is perhaps best known for presenting the BBC radio show ‘The Infinite Monkey Cage’ with physicist Brian Cox and for his lively presentation style. He has famously conducted live experiments into the science of comedy and laughter. He and his team have set out to discover the secret of timing, whether people are born funny, and if computers are able to tell jokes...
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today unveiled a new high performance liquid chromatography system designed from the ground up to provide new levels of performance, productivity and usability when used as a standalone system or with the latest mass spectrometers.
The new Thermo Scientific Vanquish UHPLC looks different from standard UHPLC systems, and there are benefits to its clean design. The monolithic case contains an instrument that combines the ruggedness of an integrated system with the flexibility and serviceability of a modular system. Vanquish stands about 25 percent lower than comparable modular stacks for safety and convenience in the laboratory...
At Powtech 2014, Freeman Technology, the powder characterisation specialists, will present ‘Choosing a Powder Tester’.
When evaluating powder testers, there is no shortage of options; this new booklet provides guidance on selecting the most suitable instrumentation. It considers questions such as ‘what makes powder testing complex?’ and ‘what should I look for in a powder testing method?’ allowing readers to make an informed decision when sourcing an appropriate measurement technology. The second in a series of three educational guides, the booklet is a follow up to the highly popular...
Synexus has been identified as a Hyper Growth business by GrowthAccelerator the government backed business growth advisory service.
Synexus which is now the world's largest multi-national company entirely focused on the recruitment and running of clinical trials at its own research centres has grown from a single site in Chorley Lancashire to 24 sites across nine countries. The commonly accepted definition of hyper growth is “a business which achieves annual growth rates into turnover or number of employees of over 20 per cent for three consecutive years.” In the...
Diapharm has opened its branch in Shanghai in reaction to a surging demand for pharmaceutical consultancy services in China.
Diapharm helps pharmaceutical companies to obtain drug approval in Europe and assists them in quality assurance. “We will advise and assist Chinese companies as they make their way to Europe and also support European companies that purchase active ingredients or finished products from China and that may require assistance in auditing their suppliers,” Ralf Sibbing, general manager of Diapharm, explains...
Resolve Optics Ltd. has supplied a number of non-browning zoom lens to the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO) at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., USA.
A key aim of the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO) has been to investigate human and robotic satellite servicing while developing the technologies necessary to bring in-orbit spacecraft inspection, repair, refueling, component replacement and assembly capabilities to space. Following the mantra of “test, test and retest,” SSCO is conducting a number of tests and demonstrations in orbit, in the air and on the ground, to prove the readiness of this...
Strong business opportunities exist for big pharmaceutical and generic pharmaceutical companies in Ghana and Nigeria.
This is of no surprise as the tropical climate of Africa makes the continent a hotbed for infectious diseases, particularly malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS. Outbreaks of polio, meningitis, cholera, pandemic influenza, yellow fever, measles, hepatitis and tetanus are also frequent. The rising adoption of a Western diet and sedentary lifestyle is also causing a paradigm shift in the burden of illness towards non-communicable diseases (NCDs)...
Synexus, the world's largest multi-national company entirely focused on the recruitment and running of clinical trials has been identified as a top player in the prestigious annual Sunday Times HSBC International Track 200 league table, published on Sunday, 13 July, 2014.
This lists private companies with the fastest growing international sales. To achieve a listing in the league table, companies are ranked according to their compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in international sales over two years and this is compared to sales at the start date. Synexus was one of 26 companies in the North West to win a place on the league table. In the national listings it has been placed in the 69th position out of 200 companies...
d3 Medicine LLC and Viroclinics Biosciences BV announced today that they have signed a non-exclusive Memorandum of Understanding to provide biopharmaceutical customers with an integrated solution to accelerate the preclinical and clinical development of drugs, biologicals, vaccines and diagnostics targeting viral infectious diseases.
The alliance leverages the strengths of the two companies and will offer services that enable biopharmaceutical customers to accelerate virological investigational agents through preclinical and clinical development to market launch. Viroclinics Biosciences will provide a range of preclinical and clinical diagnostic services, including high throughput serology, virology and molecular assays, phenotyping and genotyping in both translational studies and...
SP Industries, Inc. (SP), a leading designer and manufacturer of state-of-the-art laboratory equipment, biological drug manufacturing solutions, and specialty glassware, has announced that it has acquired privately held Bel-Art Products (Bel-Art).
Headquartered in Wayne (NJ, USA), Bel-Art is a global provider of innovative laboratory solutions serving the scientific, industrial, and healthcare end markets. Through this acquisition, SP, which offers a diverse collection of market leading process and laboratory equipment and specialty glassware, adds to its portfolio over 3,500 additional products sold under Bel-Art’s flagship Scienceware and H-B Instrument brand names. “The acquisition of best-in-class companies that complement our existing product lines and allow us to expand our presence in the...
The CIPS Sustainability is a collaboration between the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply, the University of West England (UWE) and PRGX. With research indicating that there were limited cross-industry standards to assess all three pillars of sustainability for both suppliers and buyers, the CIPS Sustainability Index was developed by the team to create a consistent sustainability measurement to support purchasing and, in doing so, create significant time and cost efficiencies....
The EMA’s Paediatric Committee (PDCO) adopted a positive opinion on the paediatric investigation plan (PIP) for the development of captopril – a drug designed to treat heart failure in children. The adoption of the PIP provides Proveca with an agreed programme for the future development of the drug. It will deliver the required quality, safety and efficacy data needed for a future licence of captopril for children throughout Europe...
In this role, Mr Jones will be responsible for leading Concepts’ global commercial organisation, which encompasses all sales, business development, marketing activities, and strategic partnering efforts. A veteran of the life sciences industry with almost two decades of experience, Jones joins Concept Life Sciences having transformed, led and driven commercial growth strategies for a diverse range of life science businesses both in Europe and the...
ZEISS ELYRA P.1 with 3D-PALM has been selected by the expert judges and editors of R&D Magazine as a recipient of a 2014 R&D 100 Award. The patented exclusive PALM technology of ZEISS ELYRA P.1 is regarded as one of 100 most significant high-technology products introduced in the past year. As its name suggests, the 3D-PALM module enables superresolution photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM) in 3D. With ELYRA P.1 and 3D-PALM, researchers can...
Already the world leader in custom nucleic acid synthesis, IDT is expanding its molecular biology product offerings by adding the SURVEYOR enzyme and kits. As part of the agreement with Transgenomic, IDT will acquire the SURVEYOR product line and intellectual property. Transgenomic will receive an exclusive license for clinical and diagnostic use of SURVEYOR products from IDT. Additional terms of the acquisition were not disclosed...
Visitors to Stand C17 will have the chance to discuss and see demonstrated FLIR Systems innovative X8400sc HD thermal imaging camera and the Ultra-fast X6580sc thermal imaging camera. With a highly sensitive InSb detector, mega pixel resolution, advanced functionality, and cutting edge design, the FLIR X8400sc high definition camera sets a new standard for research and science thermography...
These two instruments represent the 100th and 101st benchtop SEM’s installed by Hitachi in the UK, with over 600 now being used around Europe. STFC’s I-TAC initiative provides flexible access to lab space and equipment to over 60 companies working in bioscience, energy, space technologies, advanced materials and chemical engineering. This flexible access has enabled companies to achieve over £80 million in investment, to create over...
Autoscribe’s flagship product, Matrix Gemini, is used in database management applications ranging from Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) to Quality Management Systems. Managing director, John Boother, said: “This is a superb start to the year for us and reflects the benefit of having a global presence in a number of market areas. This quarter has seen particularly strong orders from the UK with sales of...
Sophia Genetics, the European leader in Data-Driven Medicine, has raised $13.75M in Series B financing in a round led by Dr Mike Lynch’s Invoke Capital, Swisscom and Endeavour Vision. Sophia Genetics is a pioneer in Data-Driven Medicine, a crossover field that requires deep expertise in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), combined with highly accurate and scalable predictive algorithms to diagnose genetic diseases. With this investment, Sophia gains access to Invoke’s portfolio company Genalys, whose Cambridge-based mathematicians apply big data approaches to...
The U.S. Small Business Administration makes the SBIR award to promote high-tech innovation in the fulfillment of specific research and development needs. The contract awarded to Spectro Scientific for Phase II efforts extends into calendar year 2016. Spectro Scientific undertook the reevaluation effort with the aim of improving the JOAP by modifying processes and/or equipment to create more effective oil analysis. The JOAP was formed following...
Ince is talking on day one of Lab Innovations, the UK’s only event dedicated to laboratory equipment, technology and services. Ince is perhaps best known for presenting the BBC radio show ‘The Infinite Monkey Cage’ with physicist Brian Cox and for his lively presentation style. He has famously conducted live experiments into the science of comedy and laughter. He and his team have set out to discover the secret of timing, whether people are born funny, and if computers are able to tell jokes...
The new Thermo Scientific Vanquish UHPLC looks different from standard UHPLC systems, and there are benefits to its clean design. The monolithic case contains an instrument that combines the ruggedness of an integrated system with the flexibility and serviceability of a modular system. Vanquish stands about 25 percent lower than comparable modular stacks for safety and convenience in the laboratory...
When evaluating powder testers, there is no shortage of options; this new booklet provides guidance on selecting the most suitable instrumentation. It considers questions such as ‘what makes powder testing complex?’ and ‘what should I look for in a powder testing method?’ allowing readers to make an informed decision when sourcing an appropriate measurement technology. The second in a series of three educational guides, the booklet is a follow up to the highly popular...
Synexus which is now the world's largest multi-national company entirely focused on the recruitment and running of clinical trials at its own research centres has grown from a single site in Chorley Lancashire to 24 sites across nine countries. The commonly accepted definition of hyper growth is “a business which achieves annual growth rates into turnover or number of employees of over 20 per cent for three consecutive years.” In the...
Diapharm helps pharmaceutical companies to obtain drug approval in Europe and assists them in quality assurance. “We will advise and assist Chinese companies as they make their way to Europe and also support European companies that purchase active ingredients or finished products from China and that may require assistance in auditing their suppliers,” Ralf Sibbing, general manager of Diapharm, explains...
A key aim of the Satellite Servicing Capabilities Office (SSCO) has been to investigate human and robotic satellite servicing while developing the technologies necessary to bring in-orbit spacecraft inspection, repair, refueling, component replacement and assembly capabilities to space. Following the mantra of “test, test and retest,” SSCO is conducting a number of tests and demonstrations in orbit, in the air and on the ground, to prove the readiness of this...
This is of no surprise as the tropical climate of Africa makes the continent a hotbed for infectious diseases, particularly malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS. Outbreaks of polio, meningitis, cholera, pandemic influenza, yellow fever, measles, hepatitis and tetanus are also frequent. The rising adoption of a Western diet and sedentary lifestyle is also causing a paradigm shift in the burden of illness towards non-communicable diseases (NCDs)... 
This lists private companies with the fastest growing international sales. To achieve a listing in the league table, companies are ranked according to their compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in international sales over two years and this is compared to sales at the start date. Synexus was one of 26 companies in the North West to win a place on the league table. In the national listings it has been placed in the 69th position out of 200 companies...
The alliance leverages the strengths of the two companies and will offer services that enable biopharmaceutical customers to accelerate virological investigational agents through preclinical and clinical development to market launch. Viroclinics Biosciences will provide a range of preclinical and clinical diagnostic services, including high throughput serology, virology and molecular assays, phenotyping and genotyping in both translational studies and...
Headquartered in Wayne (NJ, USA), Bel-Art is a global provider of innovative laboratory solutions serving the scientific, industrial, and healthcare end markets. Through this acquisition, SP, which offers a diverse collection of market leading process and laboratory equipment and specialty glassware, adds to its portfolio over 3,500 additional products sold under Bel-Art’s flagship Scienceware and H-B Instrument brand names. “The acquisition of best-in-class companies that complement our existing product lines and allow us to expand our presence in the...