Call for Sponsors and Exhibitors
A major exhibition will be held alongside the Screening and MedChem Europe conferences. Space available is limited and we expect it to be heavily oversubscribed. So please contact us as soon as possible to receive information about exhibition & sponsorship opportunities:
Paul Raggett, Exhibition Manager
Tel: +44 (0)1787 315117
E-mail: paul.raggett@selectbiosciences.com
Corporate Sponsors
MDS Sciex 
MDS Sciex is a leading global supplier of analytical instruments and technology solutions. The company's advanced technologies play a key role in drug discovery and development within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets as well as basic research. MDS Sciex researches, designs and produces mass spectrometers and the CellKey(tm) system, a label-free cellular analysis system based on cellular dielectric spectroscopy technology.
Corporate booth # 1
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.
Corporate booth # 2
Chemical Computing Group
Chemical Computing Group is producer and supplier of the MOE (Molecular Operating Environment) software system for drug discovery and protein modeling. Standard applications within MOE range from bioinformatics through structure-based design to chemoinformatics. MOE's unique Scientific Vector Language platform offers users unrivalled scientific and deployment flexibility and enables CCG's support to be the most responsive in the industry.
Corporate booth # 3
BioFocus DPI
At BioFocus, our aim is to expand our partners’ drug pipeline by accelerating the gene-to-preclinical-candidate discovery process. We achieve this by offering a biologically-focused discovery platform with two key differentiators - target discovery in human primary cells and chemogenomically-designed compound libraries.
Corporate booth # 5
PerkinElmer 
PerkinElmer serves a number of growing industries and markets including the environmental, pharmaceutical, chemical, petrochemical, semiconductor, academic research, biotechnology, and clinical screening segments. Our total application-driven laboratory solutions help our customers speed drug discovery, enhance research productivity, meet strict regulatory requirements, improve time-to-market, and increase manufacturing efficiencies.
Booth # 4
Corporate Bag Sponsor
Invitrogen
Invitrogen provides products and services that support academic and government research institutions and pharmaceutical and biotech companies worldwide in their efforts to improve the human condition. The company provides essential life science technologies for disease research, drug discovery, and commercial bio-production. For more information about Invitrogen, visit the company's web site at www.invitrogen.com
Booth # 6
Badge Sponsor
Applied Biosystems
Applied Biosystems is a leading supplier of life science technologies. The 8200 Cellular Detection System is ideally suited for fast, high productivity hybridoma and phage antibody screening, as well as apoptosis and ligand binding assays in 96-, 384-, and 1536-well formats. New fluorescently labelled chemokines for receptor ligand binding assays are available. The cAMP-Screen®, Gal-Screen, Luc-Screen, and Phospha-Light systems are cell-based assay systems for highly sensitive quantitation of cyclic AMP and reporter gene expression.
Booth # 8
Drinks Reception Sponsor
BioImage
BioImage is a biology based life science company focused on commercialising cellular assay technologies for high content pathway analysis. High content pathway analysis is a leading approach for translating the concepts of systems biology into practical R&D tools. BioImage’s patented Redistribution® technology leads the market for cell based protein translocation assays using fluorescent protein reporters. BioImage A/S is a brand of Thermo Scientific which is a Thermo Fisher Scientific company.
Booth # 7
Exhibitors
ACEA Biosciences
ACEA Biosciences, Inc. introduces the RT-CES System, a revolutionary microelectronic cell sensor platform for cell-based assays. RT-CES provides dynamic kinetic data through Real-Time and Label-Free monitoring of changes in cellular morphology in response to various treatments and drug compounds using non-invasive electronic impedance. Available in 16x multi-station or single 96x formats.
Booth # 40
Altona Biotec
ABC Express - Your partner for protein expression and cell lines
ABC Express, the service unit of ALTONABIOTEC offers high quality scientific services in the fields of protein biochemistry, assay development, and cell line production / processing.
ABC Express provides cell lines and proteins for screening, assay development, target production, structural analysis, ADME/Tox studies and electrophysiology.
Booth # 27
AnalytiCon Discovery 
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 (MEGAboliteR) as well as of biologically targeted synthetic compounds (NatDiverse TM) created by applying our Biology Oriented Synthesis (BIOS) enable HT-screening of NPs.
Booth # 46
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 # 31
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. The company, based in Fullerton, Calif., reported 2004 annual sales of $2.4 billion with 64 percent of this amount generated by recurring revenue from supplies, test kits and services.
Booth # 26
BellBrook Labs
BellBrook Labs’ proprietary technology, TranscreenerTM HTS Assay platform, is redefining the concept of the universal assay through nucleotide detection, thus enabling the seamless incorporation of entire key target families and emerging drug targets into established HTS formats. The benefits are clear: direct measurement of enzymatic products, no coupling enzymes, expanded assay capabilities, standardized methodology, and accelerated discovery. The TranscreenerTM platform will change the metrics of HTS.
Booth # 39
Bionas
Bionas specializes in automated and semi-automated analyzing systems and services for in-vitro profiling the metabolic activity of cells to understand cellular function. The Bionas sensor system is based on cell-silicon hybrids and simultaneously measures metabolically relevant parameters such as oxygen consumption of test cells, the extra cellular acidification rate as well as cell adhesion.
The core of the technology is the Bionas® metabolic chip SC1000. This silicon chip has sensors for measuring changes in pH and oxygen, and for monitoring cell adhesion. The cells are seeded directly on the chip surface to assure highly specific signal detection.
The sensor system comprises an automatic fluidics system, which supplies the cells at regular, programmable intervals with medium varying in composition (e.g. different media for cell culture optimization or media with test compounds or other additives). Equipped with control and evaluation software, the recorded data can also be visualized online. An auto-sampler allows automatic and unattended running of the measurement sequence with long walk-away times.
The system is available with one, two or six sensor chips
Booths # 18 and # 19
Biostatus
Biostatus's first product was the far-red emitting DNA fluorophore - DRAQ5™ - labelling live intact cells. It delivers significant benefits in cell-based HCS, to both simplify and accelerate assays. A derivative of this – CyTRAK Orange™ - reveals both the nucleus and the cytoplasm of live cells.
A recent development is CyGEL™, a thermoreversible hydrogel mountant especially for suspension cell imaging.
Booth # 20
Biotage
Biotage is a global leader in life science technology. The company provides complete solutions, knowledge and experience in the areas of analytical chemistry, medicinal chemistry, and genetic analysis. Through the recent acquisition of Argonaut Technologies’ business, the company has increased their scope of medicinal chemistry solutions to include analytical sample preparation, synthesis, work-up and purification.
Booth # 35
Cambrex
Cambrex provides critical products to the high throughput screening market including: PDELight™ and PKLight™ HTS Assays for cost effective high throughput screening of phosphodiesterases and kinases, GPCR Frozen Membranes for convenient screening, ToxiLight™ Non-Destructive Cytotoxicity Assay for high content screening, and Conditionally Immortalized or Primary Cells, such as cryopreserved neurons, for biologically relevant experiments.
Booth # 14
ChemBridge 
ChemBridge offers an extensive portfolio of advanced discovery chemistry products and contract research services. These include premium quality hand-crafted or parallel-synthesized screening libraries, as well as exclusive customized discovery chemistry research services, which is currently the company’s largest and fastest growing business division. In many cases such services are provided by ChemBridge Corporation jointly with ChemBridge Research Laboratories, Inc. (CRL).
Booth # 50
ChemDiv
ChemDiv, Inc. is a global chemistry-driven contract research organization focused on the delivery of scientific innovation, products and services that meet the drug discovery needs of its partners. ChemDiv provides partners with access to Discovery outSource™, a full service drug discovery capability encompassing: medicinal chemistry, pre-clinical development, synthetic chemistry, diverse and focused screening libraries, and logistics services.
Booth # 11
Chemspeed
Chemspeed Technologies is a global developer of innovative products and consumables for R&D laboratories, and a provider of automated workflows and services for the pharmaceutical and chemical industries as well as academia. Chemspeed designs and manufactures automated solutions for reaction and sample preparation, synthesis (including microwave), formulation or process research.
Booth # 36
Covalys
Covalys offers two protein tags - SNAP-tag™ and ACP-tag - for specific covalent labeling of proteins. Applications include live cell imaging, protein-protein interaction studies in solution, protein immobilization, purification and pull-down experiments. SNAP-tag can also be used as a fast alternative to western blots. Kits include a free license for commercial use.
Booth # 10
Cresset BioMolecular Discovery Limited
Cresset BioMolecular Discovery (www.cresset-bmd.com) has developed a novel way of describing and visualising compounds in silico by using the local extrema of their electrostatic, steric and hydrophobic fields. These ‘fieldpoints’ represent the key binding properties of a ligand. Structurally-diverse compounds with similar fields are predicted to bind to a protein active site in the same manner.
Software for medicinal chemists and modellers includes:
• FieldScreenTM – virtual screening and series switching
• FieldTemplaterTM – find the bound conformation
• FieldAlignTM – overlay compounds using fields
• XedeXTM – conformation explorer
Booth # 42
Deerac Fluidics
Deerac Fluidics provides high-speed, low volume liquid handling instruments for genomics, proteomics and drug discovery research. These systems offer
• Rapid, non-contact dispensing of reagents
• Wide range of dispense volumes (0.05 uL to 50µL)
• Significant reagent cost savings as a result of lower assay volumes
Booth # 24
DiscoveRx 
DiscoveRx is a company that develops and manufactures assay kits for GPCR’s, Kinases and other drug target classes. Our products, in vitro biochemical assays (HitHunter) and cellular assays (PathHunter), are based on patented Enzyme Fragment Complementation (EFC). These products enable customers to improve research productivity and effectiveness, thus accelerating the discovery and development of new drugs, and are being used in all leading pharmaceutical, biotech and academic laboratories through out the world.
Booth #23
FortéBio
FortéBio is a venture-capital funded life science company developing analytical systems to provide rapid, real-time results for protein quantification or characterization of protein-protein interaction. These systems enable real-time analysis of biomolecular interactions in micro-volume sample sizes, providing information on affinity, kinetics, and concentration. FortéBio utilizes proprietary Bio-Layer Interferometry (BLI) that enables self-calibration and measurement of molecular interactions using simple-to-use and inexpensive instrumentation.
Booth # 44
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 # 16
Gentronix
Gentronix is an innovative biotechnology company helping to accelerate the pace of drug development in the pharmaceutical industry. Gentronix is developing a range of productivity-enhancing tools for scientists in the drug discovery field, designed to ease or remove current bottlenecks in pre-clinical research and development. Gentronix Ltd was established in July 1999 to commercialise technology developed jointly in the departments of Biomolecular Sciences and Instrumentation & Analytical Science at UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) in the UK.
Booth # 9
Hybrigenics
Hybrigenics, the leader in protein interactions, offers HTS services to find small molecules disrupting your favourite interaction. Hybrigenics has a thorough expertise in protein interaction assay development (HTRF®, FP, In-yeast assay…) and a successful track record in identifying hits.
We can fully develop your assays to screen our 100,000 drug-like and natural compounds libraries through a flexible and reliable platform.
visit our web site http://www.hybrigenics.fr/services/smallmolscreening.html
Booth # 12
Instrumentación y Componentes, S.A.
Instrumentación y Componentes, S.A. is a Spanish company which distributes several kinds of laboratory instruments, including training, installation and service. Analytical Division of Instrumentación y Componentes distributes a wide range of scientific and laboratory equipment. Our main brands represented in exclusive terms for all Spanish country are:
- CyBio: Automation in liquid handling
- Analytik Jena: Analytical instruments like Atomic Absortion, UV-Vis Spectrophotometers, TOC Analyzers, etc.
- Barnstead: Water purification systems and general equipment for the laboratories.
- Berghof: Microwave digestion systems.
- Genevac: Centrifugal evaporation systems.
- Ibidi: Slides for culture.
You can visit our web site: www.inycom.es
Booth #34
Jubilant Chemsys
Jubilant Chemsys Ltd. (JCL), a Noida (India)-based company, is focused on providing medicinal chemistry and synthetic chemistry solutions to help accelerate the process of global pharmaceutical drug discovery.
Our mission is to develop an environment for efficient and sustained innovation for our collaborators and employees in addition to protecting and respecting intellectual property. We are committed to delivering high quality, cost effective solutions to aid our customers in the process of drug discovery.
JCL, established in 2004, has graduated from being a leading provider of synthetic chemistry services to an integrated medicinal chemistry collaborator in global pharmaceutical early lead discovery.
Booth # 37
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 #15
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 # 33
MAIA SCIENTIFIC 
MAIA Scientific, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard Bioscience, develops, manufactures and markets novel instrumentation and applications for high-throughput / high information content screening. The MIAS®-2 microscopy readers and eaZYX® imaging software offer unprecedented sensitivity, speed and flexibility across the drug discovery and development value chain. The MIAS-2 and eaZYX platforms allow genomics, target validation, assay development, drug discovery and ADMET R&D programs to all be conducted on the same platform. Our assay expertise includes targets, cells, tissues, beads, bead labels and small animal organisms.
Booth # 13
MatriCal, Inc. 
MatriCal, Inc. is a leading supplier of lab instrumentation and consumables to the life science research market. We specialize in microwell plates with proprietary well geometries, and automated storage solutions for compounds. In addition, MatriCal creates technologies for high throughput screening and high throughput sonication to accelerate drug discovery.
Booth # 32
Mercachem
Mercachem provides a wide range of chemical services to the life sciences industry. We specialize in exclusive synthetic and process chemistry services to support research and development programs of companies across the globe.
Booth # 47
MicroCal
Reduce attrition rates with ITC.
ITC is label and chip free. It is a multi-parameter and highly quantitative SAR tool that provides information about the non-covalent forces responsible for binding in addition to ‘gold standard’ affinity data. It has applications in hit validation, lead optimisation, fragment based drug discovery and enantiomeric discrimination.
Booth # 49
Micronic
Dedicated to the design and production of innovative sample storage tubes and accessories, with all the products manufactured in class 10.000 cleanrooms, high product quality and consistency is a company philosophy. Investing in quality Micronic are certified for ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, can offer fully validated RNase/DNase free products and a fully integrated Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point system. As a reliable high quality company in sample storage and lab-logistics over de last 25 years, Micronic's resources are focused on developing innovative products and equipment, cost effective applications and technically supporting customers worldwide. Drawing upon the comprehensive global network of Micronic's distribution partners, Micronic guarantees seamless support, logistical supply and rapid customer response.
Booth # 25
Multispan, Inc.
Multispan Inc. is a San Francisco Bay Area based company focusing exclusively on drug discovery research targeting GPCRs. Multispan has created the industry’s largest collection of human GPCR clones and has engineered a large collection of GPCR-expressing cell lines including the proprietary HEx™ series of High Expression cell lines. Multispan also provides custom compound profiling, custom antibody generation and custom cell line generation.
Booth # 29
NascaCell Technologies
NascaCell Technologies AG is a global leading service provider of a new generation of biomolecules. With its innovative Aptamer and Microbody™ technologies, the company supports customers in the areas of target validation and drug discovery. Based on its Microbody™ technology, the company also develops a line of products and drug development candidates.
Booth # 38
Nunc
Nunc, part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, is an internationally known and well-established producer of high tech disposable plastic ware fulfilling the needs of today’s customers within biotechnology, pharmaceutical and research laboratories, as well as in the production of vaccines and diagnostic kits.
Nunc is committed to playing an important role in the development of new products and surface treatments, which will help scientists to produce results and to find industrial applications for discoveries made in pure science.
Booth # 43
Olympus Life and Material Science Europa
With European headquarters in Hamburg, Olympus is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of professional opto-digital products for medicine, science and industry. As one of the most respected manufacturers of microscope systems, Olympus provides a comprehensive range for all market requirements. From microscopes for training and routine tasks to high-end system solutions in the fields of life and materials science, there is a system for every need. The product line is complemented by innovative laboratory equipment for cellular research applications.
Booth # 48
Polymer Laboratories
Polymer Laboratories, now a part of Varian, Inc., is a world-renowned manufacturer of reactive particles including synthesis supports, solid supported reagents, scavenger resins and solid phase extraction devices. We produce exceptionally high quality products from catalogue to bulk scale; we also offer customised particles tailor-made to your precise requirements.
Booth # 21
Porvair Sciences
Porvair Sciences Ltd has specialised in manufacture of microplates since 1992. Porvair serves Life Sciences, Biotechnology, R&D and Molecular Biology with microplate solutions for all applications, from sample preparation to high throughput screening. Our range includes plates, vacuum manifolds, sealers and evaporators; all designed to accelerate your discovery process through innovative technology and high quality material selection.
Booth # 22
Procognia
Procognia is helping to develop a fuller understanding of proteins as targets and as therapeutics. Utilising protein array technology, we provide the means for both unraveling disease mechanisms and the discovery and development of drugs to treat those diseases. Our Kinome 2.0 protein function array products containing 336 proteins (305 unique kinase loci, 31 kinase domains or regulatory proteins) enable same day selectivity or potency studies in competition or activity assay format.
Booth # 28
Tecan
Tecan is a leading player in the Life Sciences supply industry that specializes in the development, production, and distribution of solutions enabling drug discovery genomics, proteomics, and diagnostics. Through its subsidiary REMP, Tecan is a leading supplier of compound and sample storage, managerial and logistic solutions. The company maintains a sales and service network in 52 countries.
Booth # 17
Thales Nanotechnology
ThalesNano is a technology-intensive company that provides solutions for leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies from all over the world. It is specialized in developing and providing microscale flow instruments for chemistry, by exploiting the benefits of combining microfluidics, mezofluidics or nanotechnology with flow chemistry.
The company is widely recognized for its expertise in transforming chemical processes to microscale continuous-flow operations and developing manual or robotic continuous microreactors for the chemical industry.
Booth # 45
Thermo Scientific
The new Thermo Scientific brand represents a union of two leaders in scientific discovery.
At our booth we will be showing products for High-Content Screening & Analysis from Cellomics and BioImage in addition to our automation solutions. We supply highly flexible, modular drug discovery platforms that automate virtually any assay, method, or protocol. We bring together our experience of robotics and software development with imaging and consumables to create easily implemented, high value solutions.
Booth # 7
Tripos 
Discovery Research Ltd
Tripos Discovery Research utilizes leading edge technology and innovative science to deliver consistently superior drug discovery services to biotechnology, pharmaceutical and other life science enterprises. We provide proprietary computational design, biological screening and medicinal chemistry expertise to create novel molecules on behalf of our clients, with potential to become life-enhancing medicines in the future. Our procedures can reduce drug discovery timelines by up to 30%.
Booth # 30
TTP LabTech
TTP LabTech supplies laboratory-scale instrumentation for the Life Sciences. Its products include: comPOUND® modular cherry-picking sample store; mosquito® nanolitre liquid handler; and Acumen eX3® microplate cytometer for ultra high throughput, high content screening assays. TTP LabTech also undertakes the development of outstanding custom automation or instrumentation for specific needs.
Booth # 41