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The British company Semarion Ltd and US start-ups n6 Tec Inc and Portal Biotechnologies Inc were honoured with the New Product Award at the SLAS Conference 2025 in San Diego. The award, presented by the Society for Automation & Drug Screening, recognises pioneering technologies with the potential to transform the industry.

On the second day of SLAS 2025, the world’s largest laboratory automation conference in San Diego, the last two finalists of the Ignite Award pitched their business models. Meanwhile, the 10 finalists of the SLAS New Product Award showcased their systems in the Innovation AveNEW area of the exhibition.

New AI tools and drug screening based on human cells and organoids promise a quantum leap in the success rate of drug development and in the processing of data from high-throughput analyses as well as a revolution in diagnostics. The SLAS Europe 2024 conference in Barcelona highlighted the latest advances set to transform the entire biopharma sector.