SLAS names SLAS Europe Award finalist

With its New Product Award, the SLAS, which is expanding in Europe, honours products with transformational potential in life sciences automation and preclinical drug development. On May 21, up to three winners of the New Product Award will be selected from these five finalists in Hamburg: BlueCatBio GmbH with the product Blue®CatX, DISPENDIX GmbH with the product I. DOT LT, Dunn Labortechnik GmbH for new applications of their high-speed dispenser Scorpion, mo:re GmbH for their Automated Lab Platform for 3D Cell Cultue, Sartorius AG for the iQue5 High Throughput Screening Cytometer and Wildcat Laboratory Solutions for their PulpFixin AutoRack, Biodegradable 2D Tube Racks.
The SLAS Ignite Award for the best automation start-up is endowed with €5,000. This year, an independent panel of experts selected the following companies to pitch their business at SLAS Europe on May 21. The winner will be announced at the end of SLAS Europe. The finalists are the British companies Acoustofab Ltd and Instromeda Ltd, the German company Phabioc GmbH, the Swiss company Oryl Photonics and the US company Unicorn Biotechnologies. All innovative start-ups supported by SLAS as exhibitors will be profiled on European-Biotechnology.com.

This year, five finalists are competing for the SLAS Student Poster Prize, which recognizes particularly innovative work:
• Silvia Materna-Reichelt, Fraunhofer ITEM (SLAS Travel Award winner)
Side-by-side Comparison of Three-dimensional Drug Screening Assays Identifies an Approach that Reduces Cost and Complexity and Increases Reproducibility
• Maryam Salarian, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Miniaturizing Drug Sensitivity and Resistance Rest for Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma on Droplet Microarray
• Lucas Sousa (SLAS Travel Award winner)
A Low-cost LAMP-based Microfluidic Device for Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Point-of-Care Settings
• Annika Wittich, Fraunhofer ITMP
High-throughput Screen Identifies Repurposable Drug Candidates for Multiple Sulfatase Deficiency
• Viktoria Zieger, University of Freiburg
Automated Selective Handling of Colorectal Cancer Organoids Reveals Heterogeneity-related Differences in Drug Sensitivity

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