Gold Sponsor
Amersham Biosciences
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Amersham Biosciences, the life sciences business of Amersham, is a world leader in developing and providing integrated systems and solutions for disease research, drug development and manufacture. Focusing on the importance of functional biology, we are at the forefront of drug discovery, providing the technologies to uncover, develop and produce molecular medicines. We develop technologies and products in the areas of genomics, proteomics, bioassays, protein separations and informatics. Amersham Biosciences operates globally with major research, development and production facilities in the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Silver Sponsor
QTL Biosystems
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QTL Biosystems is a supplier of amplification technologies for Drug Discovery and HTS. The QTL LIGHTSPEED™ assays ("QTL" stands for "quencher-tether-ligand") couple a quencher molecule with a fluorescent polymer chain. Each quencher alters fluorescence of several hundred fluorophores. The enhanced fluorescent activity of "QTL" enables the end user greater sensitivity, specificity, less time to results, and material cost savings. QTL Biosystems has applied our novel QTL LIGHTSPEED™ technology to Protease and Kinase assays. The QTL Lightspeed technology provides a single-step, instantaneous, homogeneous assay where the amplification step is intrinsic to the fluorescent polymer. The polymer QTL approach provides a system for effective sensing of biological agents by observing fluorescence changes.

Bronze Sponsor
IDBS
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IDBS works with discovery organisations to maximise the value of research data, by providing software solutions to capture, manage and use biological and chemical information in an integrated framework. IDBS delivers complete — and proven — applications that bridge the gap between IT and science. IDBS’ ActivityBase is a suite of products for data management in HTS, high content screening, multiple full dose response determinations, lead optimisation, ADME, toxicology, pharmacology and inventory tracking. IDBS is also innovating in the areas of in silico screening and prediction. Headquartered in Guildford, United Kingdom, the company has offices in Emeryville, California; Parsippany, New Jersey; and Cambridge, Massachusetts.

 

Cocktail Sponsor
Caliper Life Sciences
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Caliper Life Sciences uses its advanced liquid handling and LabChip® technologies to create leading edge tools that accelerate drug discovery and enhance the diagnosis of disease. Our state-of-the-art products such as the Sciclone® ALH 3000, Sciclone inL10, Allegro® and numerous LabChip products are designed to eliminate screening bottlenecks. This offers maximum flexibility and performance across a range of drug discovery application such as HTS, UHTS and high-speed plate preparation. Caliper offers screening laboratories the flexibility to allow optimization of throughput, capacity and assay complexity while maximizing the precision and accuracy of results.

 

 

Bag Sponsor

Scimagix

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Ambion
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Ambion, the premier siRNA supplier, provides a complete line of integrated products and services for siRNA research including siRNA design, siRNA synthesis, validated siRNAs, siRNA libraries, siRNA vectors, transfection reagents, transcription kits, antibodies, and everything you need for measuring silencing efficiency in RNAi experiments.

 

 

Atto Bioscience Inc.
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Atto Bioscience Inc. is a privately held life science tools provider that specializes in optical instrumentation, software and reagents for real-time analysis of reactions taking place in living cells. The products and technologies developed by Atto are targeted at the emerging field of systems or high-content biology that is rapidly taking hold in the pharmaceutical, academic and government research sectors.

 

 

Cambrex
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Cambrex offers a powerful platform of bioluminescent-based assays for HTS applications. The PKLight™ Protein Kinase Assay delivers a cost effective, homogeneous, robust assay for protein kinase-drug evaluations.

 

CHEMICON
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Chemicon International, Inc., headquartered in Temecula, California, USA, is a global provider of life science products and enabling technologies. The Company also manufactures diagnostic products at its cGMP, ISO and TGA approved facilities. The Company’s products and technologies are used in a wide variety of innovative applications within the areas of neurobiology, cell signaling, cancer, angiogenesis, apoptosis, developmental biology, cellular physiology and infectious diseases. The Company’s customers include many of the leading research institutions and life science companies throughout the world. Along with its foreign affiliates, Chemicon has approximately 250 employees worldwide and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Serologicals Corporation whose shares are traded on the NASDAQ national stock market under the symbol SERO.

 

 

Cresset BioMolecular Discovery Ltd
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Cresset offers a completely novel in-silico lead finding service for drug discovery programs. We have unique science that enables rapid lead generation, peptide to non-peptide, lead switching, and patent break out. We describe molecules in silico by using the electron field associated with molecules rather than the traditional atom and bond visualisation. This provides a ‘protein’s eye view’ of the ligand, allowing structurally diverse compounds with similar biological activity to be identified. It can be applied to ‘virtually’ screen corporate or commercial libraries to identify diverse compounds with similar fields, which can be prioritised for biological testing.

 

 

Genomic Solutions
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Genomic Solutions offers a full complement of hardware, software, consumables, and hands-on expertise for genomic, proteomic, and high-throughput screening (HTS). Products at the show will be the Hummingbird; a capillary based nanolitre plate replicator/reformatting tool and the PreSys nano-micro on-the fly litre liquid handler. Both tools offer a total solution for HTS, assay development and compound management labs seeking to miniaturise their assays.

 

Scottish Biomedical
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WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT? - Rather than simply offering operational support, we provide our clients with intellectual rigour and expertise in project design. What this means is that Scottish Biomedical will provide strongly supported recommendations regarding drug targets and assay development. Therefore, we can assist our clients in designing the best possible drug-discovery programmes, which will maximise the likelihood of success.

 

Incorporated in 1994, Scottish Biomedical has continued to grow as a self-financing company. Our recently expanded facilities are equipped with state-of-the-art drug-discovery laboratories. We employ 40 staff on a full-time basis, of whom around 50% have PhDs. In addition, we employ approximately 50 researchers in various external university laboratories as consultants to support our milestone-driven research and discovery projects.

Tecan
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Tecan is a leading player in the global Life Sciences supply industry. We specialise in the development, production, and distribution of enabling solutions for pharmaceutical drug discovery, genomics, proteomics and clinical diagnostics.
Tecans’ success is founded on a solid reputation for the provision of high quality platforms to automate laboratory processes. With our 20 year experience in robotic platforms, we have unmatched competencies in liquid handling, miniaturisation, software and detection.
Our latest products include the Freedom EVO liquid handling workstation, the Genios PRO multi-functional microplate reader and the Aquarius multi channel pipettor.

TekCel
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TekCel, Inc. is a leading innovator of sample management and liquid handling automation for drug discovery. TekCel’s solutions yield dramatic improvements in efficiency and effectiveness by automating manual processes, integrating applications and maximizing process controls to ensure biological and chemical sample integrity and resulting data fidelity. TekCel’s product family includes the Plate Management and Tube Management Systems for storage and handling of a variety of microplates and tubes; TekBench™ and TekBench-SP™ liquid handling platforms; software and proprietary consumables. TekCel offers the industry’s only complete, fully automated, environmentally controlled solution from archive sample storage to screening result allowing life science researchers to invest in what they need today and seamlessly scale up to meet their future growth.

Titian
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Titian Software develops IT systems for the life science industries, specialising in software that manages the samples used in drug discovery. Our clients use our products to improve the efficiency, throughput and data integrity of the sample storage and preparation processes that feed their vital research functions. Our Mosaic™ software suite manages libraries of compounds and reagents through all stages of the drug discovery process. It incorporates inventory tracking, workflow management, sample ordering and the integration of robotic workstations from leading vendors.

 

Upstate
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Upstate develops the most innovative cell signalling products, technology platforms and services for accelerating life science research and drug discovery. With KinaseProfiler™, Upstate offers a panel of 102 kinases, which may be used to determine the selectivity profile of new chemical entities. View the full line-up of enzymes, services, antibodies and more at www.upstate.com.

Zinsser Analytic
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Zinsser Analytic supply sophisticated systems for applications in modern drug discovery, screening and synthesis in laboratory automation.

MOSS 2002 is an automated assay plate preparation system for high throughput screening which bridges the gap between huge library stores of compounds and high throughput screening laboratories. It combines modern weighing technology and sophisticated software to automate assay and storage plate preparation. Its compact design, high throughput, reliability and easy integration into existing infrastructures has made it the system of choice for high throughput testing laboratories.

LISSY 2002 is a truly modular state of the art robotic system, combining sophisticated and flexible liquid handling with robotic manipulation.