Sustainability Scientists’ Choice Award 2026 winners announced

Scientists worldwide have been voting in the Sustainability category of the 2026 Scientists’ Choice Awards^®.

The Scientists’ Choice Awards are unique in the industry as they are chosen by scientists and healthcare professionals. Each year, we invite scientists around the globe to participate by nominating, reviewing, and voting for the lab products that have had the greatest impact on their work.

Read on to learn more about this year’s winners and nominees and discover how they are shaping a more eco-conscious future for laboratory research.

Best New Sustainable Lab Product of the Year

The award for Best New Sustainable Lab Product of 2025 goes to the Thermo Scientific™ Vanquish™ Core HPLC systems by Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Thermo Scientific™ Vanquish™ Core HPLC systems received significant enhancements in 2025 to deliver smarter usability, greater sustainability and improved lab productivity with LC separations. Designed for use across pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, food and beverage, environmental and academic laboratories, the upgraded systems feature a number of sustainable features including torque-controlled Thermo Scientific™ Viper™ TQ UHPLC fittings and replaceable capillaries for column active pre-heaters. Manufactured in facilities fully powered by renewable energy, they are also the first LC systems to achieve a Platinum ACT™ Ecolabel 2.0 certification for environmental impact analysis.

The runners up for this award that are also driving more sustainable research include:

• Agilent 1290 Infinity III LC System by Agilent Technologies
• Axcend Focus LC^® by Axcend^®
• Deepwell Plates BioBased by Eppendorf
• Microlab PuriFY by Hamilton
• Monarch^® Spin Plasmid Miniprep Kit by New England Biolabs Inc.
• AutoRack 2D Barcoded Tube Racks by PulpFixin
• Xevo TQ Absolute XR Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer by Waters™

Sustainable Supplier of the Year

The award for the Sustainable Supplier of 2025 goes to StatLab, as voted for by scientists and healthcare professionals around the world.

With a commitment to having a positive effect on the environment, StatLab is working to significantly impact laboratory sustainability through various initiatives that support greener operations for pathology labs. The company is committed to responsible manufacturing focusing on reducing waste and emissions, including optimized packaging of the StatLab PiSmart S1 Slide Printer and the use of renewable energy in the product of its KT^® Premium Slides, as well as continuing to focus on sustainable product innovation, education of employees, and waste reduction across global sites.

The company’s move to an in-house manufacturing model that consolidates both product and packaging production in Texas has reduced transportation requirements and supply-chain complexity, significantly lowering StatLab’s carbon footprint.

The runners up nominated in this category are:

• Agilent Technologies
• Beckman Coulter
• ELGA LabWater
• Eppendorf
• Merck
• METTLER TOLEDO
• Sartorius Group
• Siemens Healthineers
• SPT Labtech
• Starlab
• Sysmex
• Thermo Fisher Scientific
• Waters

Sustainable Laboratory of the Year

The award for Sustainable Laboratory of the Year goes to Johns Hopkins University Green Labs initiative.

The Johns Hopkins University Green Labs Program has demonstrated exceptional leadership in promoting sustainability across its thousands of research and teaching laboratories. Through the implementation of My Green Lab^® certification, participating labs have adopted a wide range of environmentally responsible practices, including energy-efficient equipment, optimized fume hood usage, and automated lighting systems, significantly reducing overall energy consumption.

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