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News Release from: Bioinformatics | Subject: Life Science Industry Awards
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 13 December 2004
US life science industry gives awards
More than 3000 US scientists voted for those companies whose innovative products have simplified their lives and sped the pace of their research in the past year
Nearly 200 life science executives gathered Monday night at the Renaissance Washington DC hotel for the Life Science Industry Awards, which were presented by Ira Flatow, host and executive producer on US National Public Radio Developed by The Scientist, along with market research firm BioInformatics, hese awards are determined by the industry's own customers - scientists
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 7 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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More than 3000 scientists voted for those companies whose innovative products have simplified their lives and sped the pace of their research in the past year.
Although more than 600 life science companies were named by scientists across all 18 categories, the winners taking home awards this year included:.
Cell biology kits and reagents: Invitrogen.
Cell biology instrumentation: BD Biosciences.
Cell culture media, equipment and reagents: Invitrogen.
Expression analysis products: Invitrogen.
High throughput screening and analysis systems: Applied Biosystems.
Image analysis systems: Bio-Rad and Carl Zeiss.
Instrumentation for genomic analysis: Applied Biosystems.
Instrumentation for protein analysis: Bio-Rad.
Nucleic acid purification and analysis products: Qiagen.
Protein purification and analysis products: Amersham/GE Healthcare.
RNAi products: Ambion.
Software: Accelrys.
Print catalogue: New England Biolabs.
Print advertisement: Invitrogen.
Customer service: Sigma-Aldrich.
Technical support: Invitrogen.
Sales representatives: Invitrogen.
Website: Invitrogen.
"Our company was founded on the simple premise that by facilitating better communication between life science suppliers and scientists, we create a win-win situation for all involved", said Bill Kelly, president of BioInformatics, the firm that conducted the survey.
"The scientists who participated in the voting, and the larger market they represent, know their suppliers make an important contribution to the advancement of science.
"These awards publicly recognise these contributions and set the standard for other companies that aspire to be best-in-class".
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