Vote for the Best New Drug Discovery & Development Product of 2017 in the Scientists’ Choice Awards
To be in with a chance of winning a $500/£400/450 € Amazon voucher, just tell us which new product, instrument or consumable made the most difference to your laboratory in 2017
8 Jan 2018
Lui Terry
Administrator / Office Personnel
Editorial article
Scientists are being invited to vote in the Scientists’ Choice Awards® for the Best New Drug Discovery & Development Product of 2017. The Scientists' Choice Awards celebrate the best laboratory technologies of the past year and give scientists around the world a chance to recognize the manufacturers whose innovations have done most to help accelerate their research.
The winning product will be recognized as having significantly contributed towards laboratory efforts in 2017. To vote, and to be in with a chance of winning a $500/£400/450 € Amazon voucher, please click here.
Nominees for Best New Drug Discovery Product of 2017.
- Agilent Technologies, 6545XT AdvanceBio LC/Q-TOF MS System
- Beckman Coulter, Biomek i-Series Automated Workstation
- Brooks Life Science Systems, FluidX™ IntelliXcap™ Decapper
- Corning Incorporated, Corning Valor™ Glass
- Eppendorf, BioFlo® 120 Bioprocess Control Station
- Essen BioScience, IncuCyte® S3 Live-Cell Analysis Platform
- PerkinElmer Inc, NexION 2000 ICP-MS System
- Promega Corp, NanoBRET™ Target Engagement Intracellular Kinase Assay
- Thermo Fisher Scientific, Thermo Scientific™ Q Exactive™ HF-X Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap™ Mass Spectrometer
Voting closes on January 29, 2018. The winner will be announced during a special ceremony at the SLAS2018 Conference in San Diego, USA, February 3-7, 2018. If you would like to attend the awards party on Monday, February 5, please RSVP here.
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