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A large exhibition of complimentary products and service providers will be held alongside the conferences. Available space is limited and last year was heavily oversubscribed. So please contact us as soon as possible to receive a prospectus about exhibition & sponsorship opportunities:

Paul Raggett, Exhibition Manager
Tel: +44 (0)1787 315117
E-mail: paul.raggett@selectbiosciences.com

Corporate Sponsors

Millipore

Millipore advances discovery and evaluation of new drug candidates by providing products and services that complement your work and help you achieve results faster than ever before. Through the acquisition of Upstate, Chemicon and Linco, Millipore now offers a suite of products that span the drug discovery pipeline from target identification to clinical studies. Millipore's expert team of scientists and engineers understands the complexity of your discovery and development and can support you in these challenges. Your drive to discovery starts with Millipore.

Booth # 1

BD Biosciences

BD Biosciences provides integrated, high-value products and services applications in the life sciences, including genomics, proteomics, drug discovery and development. With leading expertise in fluid handling, cell and tissue culture, and cell screening, BD Biosciences - Discovery Labware provides products and services with applications for drug discovery, ADME/Tox, HTS, angiogenesis, and tumor invasion.

Booth # 3

Promega

Promega is a world leader in developing bioluminescent technologies that deliver more biologically relevant data in drug screening and basic research applications. Promega offers customizable solutions for cytotoxicity, apoptosis, GPCRs, Kinases, p450, Pgp, and proteases that are easily adapted to small volume screening applications on a variety of instrumentation platforms. Promega will be on hand to discuss how these products can benefit your research.

Booth # 4

GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.

Booth # 5

Agilent

Agilent Technologies is a leading supplier in Bio-Analytical Measurement for life science technologies, chemical analysis and materials sciences providing solutions for gene expression, proteomics, metabolomics, drug discovery and informatics that optimize sensitivity and workflow productivity. Key products include: whole genome and custom microarrays, scanners; HPLC, LC/MS/MS and HPLC-Chip/MS; ion trap and TOF mass spectrometers; lab-on-a-chip products; Gas chromatography; reagents; and data analysis software.

Booth # 34

AMRI's core business consists of a fee-for-service contract services platform encompassing drug discovery, development and manufacturing; and an independent R&D division comprising proprietary technologies, internal drug discovery and bundled capabilities designed for more collaborative relationships and licensing opportunities. With locations in USA, EU and Asia, AMRI provides a flexible range of services and cost models.

Booth # 36

BioFocus DPI

At BioFocus DPI, our aim is to expand our partners’ drug pipeline by accelerating the target-to-candidate discovery process.  We achieve this through a comprehensive discovery platform including - focused and diverse compound libraries; in vitro and cell-based screening, medicinal chemistry and ADMET services, supported by unique chemogenomic and ADMET informatics tools.

Booth # 37 

Bag Sponsor and Exhibitor

ChemBridge

ChemBridge is a leading global discovery chemistry CRO offering over 600,000 diverse drug-like small molecule screening compounds and exclusive customized discovery chemistry research services. Employing over 350 people, ChemBridge has its headquarters in San Diego, European offices in the UK and Switzerland, and a marketing agency in Japan. It also operates a state-of-the-art offshore research site in Moscow.

Booth # 30

Badge Sponsor

iNovacia is an independent CR,O with long track record from inside Pharma, specializing in early drug discovery from target into LeadOpt. iNovacia has a special edge in the very large compound library, designed for discovery, and the integrated use of biophysics to optimize assays, and remove false positives from HTS. This provides “hard” data to form dependable SAR very early, and move projects forward based specifically on the desired mechanism of action.

Exhibitors

Select Biosciences

Select Biosciences provides conferences, training courses, focused market reports, custom consultancy, and recruitment to the biomedical marketplace. Our staff have many years of experience in analyzing cutting edge technologies and assessing their role in biotech and pharmaceutical markets.

Booth # 2

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as environmental and industrial process control settings. Serving customers through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, we help solve analytical challenges from routine testing to complex research and discovery.

Booth # 6

Gentronix

Gentronix was founded in 1999 as a spin-out from the University of Manchester to commercialise patented new technology for the early identification of genotoxic carcinogens. This technology is now available in a kit format, known as GreenScreen HC, for the early genotoxicity screening of new drug compounds. Developed in a simple microplate format requiring less than 1mg of compound, the assay is human cell-based and easily automated using standard laboratory equipment. Published results and trial data demonstrate a unique combination of exceptionally high sensitivity and specificity, making GreenScreen HC the first in vitro mammalian cell assay truly suitable for early candidate screening.

Booth # 7

Bionas

Bionas® specializes in automated analyzing systems and services for in-vitro profiling of cell metabolism. The system can simultaneously measure multiple physiological parameters (acidification, oxygen consumption, adhesion/confluence) of living cells. This label-free, non-invasive assay is based on semiconductor technology. The fluidic system allows long term studies of compound induced metabolic responses and subsequent recovery.
Bionas 2500® is suitable for applications in drug profiling & lead optimization, target validation, chemosensitivity testing, cell culture optimization, nutritional studies, toxicology.

Booth # 8

Deerac Fluidics

Deerac Fluidics provides the Equator HTS and Latitude high speed, low volume liquid handling systems for assay miniaturization and HTS. These systems provide rapid non-contact dispensing of reagents (<60 sec for 384 plate) across a wide range of volumes (0.05-50µL) enabling reagent savings as a result of reduced assay volumes.

Booth # 9

NEXUS Biosystems

NEXUS Biosystems, a privately held company based in Poway, California, USA, has since 1996 been a developer and provider of enabling technologies and automation systems for pharmaceutical, biotech, agrochemical and academic research institutions worldwide. Current products include the Universal Store® family of next generation sample storage and retrieval systems, the Crystal Farm® line of protein crystallization systems, and the IRORI® line of chemical synthesis technologies and services.

Booth # 10

CCS - Cell Culture Service

As an external cell culture unit CCS is supporting companies all over Europe and the USA to make screening faster and more efficient.
CCS offers the custom generation of recombinant cell lines and supplies starting material for advanced screening, i.e. frozen cells in vials or plates for instant use in cell based assays, membrane preparations and recombinant proteins.

Booth # 11

BellBrook Labs

BellBrook Labs provides breakthrough technologies to the Drug Discovery market. The Transcreener HTS Assays detect the invariant nucleotide product of group transfer reactions, streamlining reagent costs and making difficult targets accessible. The iuvo Microconduit Array technology is a unique microscale device that addresses challenges in cellular based assays and allows for the creation of advanced cell culture models.

Booth # 12

DiscoveRx , a privately held, venture-backed company,  pioneered the use of β-galactosidase enzyme fragment complementation in HitHunter™ biochemical and PathHunter™ cell based assays for discovery research. DiscoveRx is dedicated to the development and commercialization of innovative screening and profiling assays to study  GPCRs,  Kinases,  NHRs and Proteases. For more information on DiscoveRx products and services, please visit www.discoverx.com

Booth # 13

Cisbio

Cisbio international, has pioneered fluorescence applied to biomolecular interaction study for over 15 years. Its proprietary technology, HTRF (homogeneous time-resolved fluorescence), is now a leading methodology applied to all steps of Drug Discovery and particularly to HTS. More information about HTRF® products and services at www.htrf.com

Booth # 14

Velocity11's innovative automation technology provides solutions to life science laboratories, major pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, leading genome centers, and academic institutions. Combining cutting-edge engineering with high standards of quality and customer service, Velocity11 designs and manufactures flexible high-performance automation instrumentation for processes that are transforming the industry. Velocity11 is committed to providing its customers with The Ultimate Automation Experience(tm).

Booth # 15

TTP LabTech

TTP LabTech’s Acumen eX3 ® microplate cytometer offers fast, high content screening of oncology applications including: kinase activation, cell cycle, colony formation, RNAi screening and cell proliferation. TTP LabTech’s Mosquito ® is an accurate nanolitre liquid handler for miniaturising assay volumes. Its disposable pipettes ensure zero cross-contamination, allowing it to produce assay-ready plates directly from high-concentration DMSO stock solutions.

Booth # 16

Scienion

SCIENION is your competent partner for high-end microarray hardware and services.
We offer complex solutions for parallel bioanalytics in functional genomic and proteomic research.
Our customers are academic research institutions, as well as biotech, pharmaceutical, and diagnostic companies.

Booth # 17

Hybrigenics

As the protein interactions expert, Hybrigenics Services has expanded its offer from the discovery and validation of protein interactions to the inhibition of interactions with small molecules. We offer various customized assays (HTRF®, FP or permeable in-yeast) together with a unique and highly diverse library of more than 100,000 drug-like chemical and natural compounds selected from commercial sources. Hybrigenics Services has a validated track record in identifying hotspots and inhibiting protein interactions with small molecules. Interact directly with our biologists and chemists to follow your project from assay development to compound evaluation!

Booth # 18

Cyprotex

Cyprotex is a specialist provider of technology and information to evaluate and optimize the Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Elimination, toxicity and pharmacokinetic properties of potential drugs early in the drug discovery process. Cyprotex combines in vitro ADME screening (Cloe® Screen) with a pharmacokinetics prediction system (Cloe® PK) to offer an integrated suite of ADME services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

Booth # 19

Digilab Genomic Solutions

Genomic Solutions offers instrumentation and hands on expertise for genomics, proteomics, protein crystallization, low volume liquid handling and high throughput screening. Genomic Solutions products are currently being used by thousands of researchers in more than 30 countries around the world.

Booth # 20

Life Chemicals

Life Chemicals Inc. (formerly I.F. Lab Ltd.) specializes in state-of-the-art organic synthesis for drug discovery:
- Drug-like and lead-like compounds for high-throughput screening
- Carefully designed targeted libraries (Kinase, Protease, NHR, IC and GPCR)
- Core building blocks
- Custom synthesis projects.
All compounds are at least 90 % pure, with their identity and purity being confirmed by NMR or LC-MS.

Booth # 21

Sirion

Sirion GmbH develops and distributes gene function analysis tools and services for life sciences R&D in industry and academia. Sirions core competences are adenoviral gene expression systems with emphasis on cellular siRNA expression. This proprietary Q-tech technology allows the direct induction of specific RNA interference in virtually any cell type. In addition, Sirion offers a broad range of customized services for viral gene expression.

Booth # 22

Chemical Computing Group

Chemical Computing Group (CCG) is producer and supplier of the Molecular Operating Environment (MOE) software for drug discovery. Applications provided within MOE range from protein structure modelling, through structure-based drug design (including pharmacophore derivation and search) and small molecule modelling, to cheminformatics applications such as QSAR, diversity and similarity measures, library design and focusing.

Booth # 23

ProCitius

ProCitius Research, the research services division of Sanmar Speciality Chemicals Ltd., is a Contract Research Organisation that offers a comprehensive development platform integrating chemistry and biology capabilities to serve the needs of global lifescience companies. From mg to kg ProCitius will deliver on time, on spec products, providing reliable, cost-effective research and development support where and when it is needed.

Booth # 24

tebu-bio

tebu-bio aims to help European life scientists succeed in their work. We supply the most comprehensive range of innovative and convenient products, as well as laboratory services. Our daily-updated online catalogue is directly available at www.tebu-bio.com.
tebu-bio covers the needs of scientists in basic or applied research and drug discovery (from target discovery to ADME-Tox via primary & secondary screenings).

Booth # 25

ECCAC

European Collection of Cell Cultures (ECACC) is a long established global supplier of authenticated and quality tested cell lines recently expanding to include an extensive range of primary cells. Building on our core expertise in cell culture, cell banking and cryopreservation, ECACC provides a range of cell culture services for early stage drug discovery. These include the provision of frozen assay ready cultures in a range of quantities and formats for use in cell based assay systems.

Booth # 26

Taconic

Taconic is your source for Laboratory Rats and Mice and related services. Over 1,000 Transgenic and knockout animal models available, including multiple short-term carcinogenicity models and drug transporter knockouts. Custom Model Generation services. Extensive experience in Contract Breeding, research and surgical services and molecular analysis. When you choose Taconic, you gain a strategic partner with the unrivaled resources needed to provide products and services of the highest quality, integrity, and consistency.

Booth # 27

OLink Bioscience

Olink Bioscience is a privately held company based in Uppsala, Sweden, founded in 2004 by Prof. Ulf Landegren and partners. The company was initially founded on a portfolio of 12 patent cases, covering 4 technologies for advanced analyses of biomolecules pertaining to applications in basic research as well as in routine diagnostics. Today, the portfolio comprises 17 patent cases.
Olink Bioscience's commercial model combines active out-licensing of proprietary technologies with sales of proprietary reagent products. The first product Duolink™, based on in situ Proximity Ligation Assay Technology, was launched in June 2007 and is available through our web shop.

Booth # 28

MatriCal

MatriCal offers a quality range of products designed for high throughput screening, aimed at making your lab more efficient, reliable and cost effective. Whether you run a compound screening operation or a genomics/proteomics lab, MatriCal can help improve your performance. We specialize in microwell plates and their washing, automated sample management solutions, automated cell culture systems, and high throughput sonication.

Booth # 29

SpinX Technologies

SpinX Technologies has developed a unique microfluidic assay system, designed to fit within the existing infrastructure of drug discovery laboratories. Standard liquid handling stations are used to fill the microfluidic reservoirs. The microfluidic channels are connected on the fly based on the assay protocol, enabling a wide variety of on-chip assays to be performed.  Once the user defines the assay protocol and adds the assay components, the system performs unattended all further operations in a closed system, with final volumes in the 200 nl range.

Booth # 31

Stockholm – The Capital of Scandinavia
Stockholm Science City is commissioned by the three leading universities Karolinska Institutet, The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Stockholm University as well as the private sector, the city and county to fill the North Station area with academia and business. We develop the platform Tools of Science, www.toolsofscience.se  - a “one-stop-shop” that serves to streamline research and development within drug discovery.

Booth # 32

Using our unique expertise in the combined fields of optics, materials science, surfaces, and biology, Corning provides a full range of solutions that improve productivity and enable breakthrough discoveries.  Our latest drug discovery innovations include the Corning® Epic® System for label-free detection, the Corning® HYPERFlask™ cell culture vessel for increased cell yields, and novel surfaces for enhanced assay performance.

Booth # 33

Sovicell

Sovicell offers state-of-the-art drug development products and services that enable early prediction of efficacy and safety for drug candidates. Our TRANSIL® technology platform underpins our numerous assays and comprises a bead based system that mimics certain physiological conditions of the human body allowing the membrane permeability and protein binding of drug candidates to be easily and reproducibly assessed. Our physiologically-relevant hepatocytes can provide data on metabolic parameters and measurements of hepatotoxicity. These can be used on their own or to further complement in vitro physical chemistry data from our TRANSIL® product range.

Booth # 35

Syrris

Syrris creates automated products for research and development chemists and is a world leader in flow chemistry, microreactor and automation technology.  We also develop applications and products in partnership with leading pharmaceutical companies, technology IP owners and instrument manufactures. Find out here how we could work with you.  Syrris products include flow chemistry systems (FRX and Africa) and batch reactors (Atlas and Coflux calorimetry).

Booth # 38

Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley's Scientific, Technical, Medical, and Scholarly (STMS) business, also known as Wiley-Blackwell, serves the world's research and scholarly communities, and is the largest publisher for professional and scholarly societies. Wiley-Blackwell's programs encompass journals, books, major reference works, databases, and laboratory manuals, offered in print and electronically. Through our Wiley InterScience and Blackwell Synergy services, we provide online access to a broad range of STMS content through licensing agreements.

Booth # 39

AnalytiCon Discovery GmbH, offers a complete Natural Product (NP) drug discovery solution (from hits to IND-approval), ranging from biomaterial acquisition, extraction and fermentation to medicinal and computational chemistry, delivering NP-libraries with fully elucidated structures. AnalytiCon's programs and collections of pure NPs (MEGAbolite(R)) as well as of biologically targeted synthetic compounds (NatDiverse (TM)) created by applying our Biology Oriented Synthesis (BIOS) enable HT-screening of NPs.

Booth # 40

Genetix 
 
Genetix technologies are bringing new efficiencies to biotherapeutic research from target discovery through to clinical diagnosis. We offer the latest technologies for cell screening and selection, genetic testing and cancer pathology, protein science, microarraying, cell and liquid dispensing and a host of related reagents and consumables. We continually deliver technological breakthroughs to increase our customers’ productivity and success.

Booth # 41

Syngene is an internationally reputed contract research and manufacturing organisation with multi-disciplinary skills in chemistry and biology. From early stage discovery and process development through to cGMP manufacturing, we offer pharmaceutical and biotechnology majors cost-competitive custom services on a strong platform of confidentiality and intellectual property protection.

Booth # 42

ChiroBlock – the outsourcing partner for exclusive contract research on chemistry, routing and small-scale syntheses. The company is focused on sophisticated multistep processes and chiral molecules. Providing  chemistry related services is the very core of our business policy.
Our customers benefit from our lean, entirely service orientated structure with modern systems for managing projects, knowledge, risks and quality.

Booth # 43

Pharma Algorithms is a research driven software company which delivers software tools for ADME/Tox and physicochemical profiling, property based drug design and QSAR/QSPR computational algorithm development. Our multiple endpoint predictive models and the software to build and customize them are used by industry and academic researchers worldwide to provide compound knowledge.  Try the software free – www.admetoxweb.com

Booth # 44

Luxcel Biosciences

The mission of Luxcel Biosciences is to become a leading provider of new enabling R&D tools and solutions to the research community, particularly for drug discovery, biomedical, environmental and food sectors. This is achieved by developing and commercializing a spectrum of proprietary platform technologies. Luxcel Platform Technologies Include:
Phosphorescent Label Technology, Respirometric Screening Technology(RST), Luxcel Microplates, Multi-Functional Detection Instrumentation, Phase-Fluorometric Oxygen Sensor System, Two-Photon Excitation Fluorescence Technology

Booth # 45

KBioscience 

KBioscience is a UK based technology company focused on SNP Genotyping chemistry and novel instrumentation. Our Covaris product line aides in MedChem, HTS and ADMET / DMPK. The Covaris Adaptive Focused Acoustics (AFA) technology improves and facilitates applications in dissolution, mixing and extraction from tissues and cells using Cryogenic pulverization and the high frequency acoustics.

Booth # 46-47

Tokyo Chemical Industry Co. Ltd. (Japan) handles over 19000 different highly specialised chemicals of which 3000 are only manufactured by TCI in the multi-purpose facilities in Japan, China and the United States.
TCI Europe (Belgium) acts as the full-scale global supply system for the European market and has sales offices in Germany and the United Kingdom.
With more than 50 years experience synthesizing fine organic chemicals TCI is the ideal partner for semi-bulk, custom manufacturing, speciality and other application chemicals.

Booth # 48

Since 1992 we supply stem cells, primary
cells and in vitro testsystems as tools for drug discovery & development.
Human Adult Stem Cells, Primary Cells, Respiratory Epithelial Model, Blood Brain Barrier, Angiogenesis Model, Skin Models and Cor.AT cardiomyocytes (developed by our partner Axiogenesis). Cor.At is a unique tool for cardiotoxcicity-screening based on 100% pure, fully functional cardiomyocytes.

Booth # 49

Celsis is a global leader in ADME-Tox products and services to advance your in vitro drug discovery and preclinical research. Celsis In Vitro Technologies (IVT) supplies high-quality hepatocytes, subcellular fractions and media products. Our Development Services group includes experts in small molecule and protein analysis, delivering best-in-class contract research services in an accredited, cGMP/GLP environment. 

Booth # 50

Biopredic International

European leader in fresh human and animal hepatocytes, we provide human skin derived products for passage studies, human renal proximal tubule cells, dendritic cells, plasma, whole blood, hepatic and extra-hepatic microsomes, liver and lung slices. Biopredic International is the exclusive producer of the human hepatic cell line, HepaRG, fully equipped with CYPs and drug transporters.

Booth # 51

Technology Networks

Technology Networks Ltd. are publishers of Free Portal Websites for specific internet communities. We specialize in the scientific marketplace and have a particular focus on the Drug Discovery and Bionanotechnology sectors.
Our sites typically include the following sections:

• Industry news
• New products
• Scientific posters
• Specialist suppliers directory
• Upcoming events
• Jobs
• Application notes
• Resources
• Forums
• Conference presentations

Booth # 52

Beckman Coulter

Beckman Coulter Inc. is a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests and supplies that simplify and automate laboratory processes. Spanning the biomedical testing continuum – from pioneering medical research and clinical trials to laboratory diagnostics and point-of-care testing – Beckman Coulter's 200,000 installed systems provide essential biomedical information to enhance health care around the world.
Beckman Coulter GmbH  in Wals – Austria, as a part of the Beckman Coulter Inc. group, developing and  manufacturing High Performance Multi Mode Detectors for all common measurement techniques.

Booth # 53

Scottish Biomedical

Scottish Biomedical is a drug discovery services company utilising its expertise in cell systems biology and medicinal chemistry to establish successful drug discovery collaborations with our pharmaceutical and biotech clients worldwide. Our flexible/modular approach enables drug discovery collaborations to be tailored to meet specific requirements and any intellectual property generated during the project is retained by our clients.

Booth # 54

ProQinase

ProQinase GmbH provides an Integrated Protein Kinase Technology (iProKiTe®) Platform for preclinical drug development of protein kinase inhibitors:
More than 150 highly active recombinant kinases are offered for sale and more than 210 kinases are available for in vitro testing services (HTS and selectivity profiling etc.). Cellular and in vivo test systems including orthotopic tumor models allow further testing of lead compounds.

Booth # 55

Panomics is focused on delivering innovative solutions for Parallel Quantitative Biology or PQB.
PQB will facilitate understanding of biological pathways and networks in the context of normal physiology and development, disease pathology and drug treatment.
Our mission is to establish worldwide leadership with PQB products for basic life science research, clinical research, and drug discovery and development based on innovative solutions for critical applications such as cell signaling, RNAi-mediated gene silencing and high information assays, clinical biomarker discovery, predictive toxicology and transcription regulation.

Booth # 56

Reactionlab

Reactionlab is a Nordic distributor company with products for the life science market.
We represent products such as:
• Cell Transfection System from amaxa
• Life Cell Imagers from Chipman
• Liquid Handling Systems from CyBio
• Multilabel Readers and other readers from Hidex and Berthold
• Human Angiogenesis models and Porcine Blood Brain Barrier model from TCS Cellworks.
• Cytokine/ Chemokine assays from Bender Medsystems

Booth # 57

We have more than 40 expert scientists specialising in drug development from medicinal chemistry to early stage GMP production. Our chemistry expertise has an industry leading reputation. If you are sourcing a partner for lead optimisation, process development and scale up synthesis, or just want excellent chemistry support, Onyx Scientific provides a partnership of the highest standard.

Booth # 58

Eppendorf 

Eppendorf is a leading global biotechnology player and aims to be the system supplier of top-quality innovative techniques and products. Biotechnology products, such as the Eppendorf  liquid handling workstation/robot or qPCR, accompany and support users in solving laboratory tasks in all areas og the biosciences, from research to medicine to routine industrial applications.
Please visit www.eppendorf.dk and read more about products, events, offers and much more!

Booth # 59