Editorial Article: Best New Clinical Products of 2018: Vote for Your Scientists’ Choice Award Winners

Clinical scientists and healthcare professionals across the globe are invited to have their say in the Scientists’ Choice Awards^®.

Now in their 11th year, the prestigious Scientists’ Choice Awards celebrate the very best laboratory technologies, instruments and assays, as nominated and chosen by clinical scientists and healthcare professionals around the world. They give clinical professionals a chance to recognize the manufacturers whose innovations have done most to help advance their work and improve patient care globally.

Why vote? Not only will a Scientists’ Choice Award give your favorite instrument or kit the recognition it deserves, it will also spread the word to your peers around the world to help them purchase the best lab equipment, enabling them to achieve better outcomes. Additionally, all voters are entered into a prize drawing for the chance to win a $500/£400/450€ Amazon^® Gift Card.

There are two categories to vote in this year: Best New Clinical Instrumentation of 2018 and Best New Clinical Assay/Kit of 2018.

Find out which products scientists around the world have nominated below:

Best New Clinical Instrumentation of 2018:

• Afinion™ 2 Analyzer, Abbott
• DxH 520 Hematology Analyzer, Beckman Coulter
• IH-Reader 24: Semi-Automated Immunohematology Instrument, Bio-Rad
• Macroduct^® Advanced Sweat Collection System, ELITechGroup
• Milli-Q® CLX 7000 Series with Milli-Q® Connect, MilliporeSigma, a business of Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany
• VITROS^® XT 7600 Integrated Chemistry System, Ortho Clinical Diagnostics
• Citrine™ MS/MS System, SCIEX

Best New Clinical Assay/Kit of 2018:

• MenoCheck^® picoAMH ELISA, Ansh Labs
• SPAPLUS Complement C2 Kit, Binding Site
• Salivary Hepcidin ELISA, DRG International Inc.
• High-Sensitivity Troponin I Assay, Siemens Healthineers

Kerry Parker, Editor-in-Chief of SelectScience which runs the awards, said: “The Clinical Scientists’ Choice Awards are going from strength to strength and it was great to see more nominations this year than ever before.

“These awards are unique in our industry because the winners are chosen by the people who know best – the clinical scientists and healthcare professionals using the products to improve patient outcomes.”

The winning products will be recognized as having significantly contributed towards clinical laboratory efforts and improved healthcare in the past year and will be announced at a special party during the 2019 AACC Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo in Anaheim, CA, USA, August 3 – 8, 2019.

About the Scientists’ Choice Awards^®

SelectScience, the leading independent online resource for the global scientific community, launched the Scientists’ Choice Awards 11 years ago to enable scientists to voice their opinions on the best laboratory products. Once a year, SelectScience invites members to nominate their favorite products of the year in four scientific categories: drug discovery, analytical chemistry, life sciences, clinical diagnostics.