19.03.2012

Elizabeth Murchison: Winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2012

Dr. Elizabeth Murchison of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, England, is the winner of the Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2012. The prize ceremony will take place at the EMBL Advanced Training Centre in Heidelberg on 9th May 2012.     more21.12.2011

Eppendorf Young Investigator Award 2012: Call for Entries!

Eppendorf Young Investigator Award 2012: Until 15 January 2012, young researchers working in Europe who are not older than 35 years are invited to apply. This highly prestigious prize was first established in 1995. It acknowledges outstanding contributions to biomedical research in Europe based on methods of molecular biology, including novel analytical concepts. more07.11.2011

Phenomenex Website Wins Award

Phenomenex has won the 2011 award for best biotechnology website in the Web Marketing Association's WebAward competition. The new site, launched in February of this year, was designed to give an optimized experience with easy product selection tools, comprehensive technical resources and state-of-the-art online purchasing. more03.08.2011

Top Scientist 2011 Award

International p.b.i. celebrates its 55th Anniversary in 2011 and will present the "Top Scientist 2011 Award" to a scientist that has been a major contributor to the dissemination of science and research in the food, dairy and biotech industries. The Award will be presented during the "Grand Gala of Food Science" to be held in Milan on December 2, 2011. more07.07.2011

Redd&Whyte Wins Best New Company at the European Lab Automation 2011 Life Science Awards

Redd&Whyte, a specialist provider of novel liquid handling technology, was awarded Best New Company at the inaugural Life Science Awards, on 29 June in Hamburg, Germany, preceding the first European Lab Automation (ELA) conference and exhibition. more27.05.2011

Suzan Rooijakkers is the Winner of the Eppendorf Young Investigator Award 2011

Assistant Professor Suzan Rooijakkers, PhD, University Medical Center Utrecht, Department of Medical Microbiology, Utrecht, The Netherlands, is the winner of the 16th Eppendorf Young Investigator Award 2011. more13.05.2011

Red Dot Award: Product Design 2011 Goes to Elga

The ‘Red Dot Award' goes to Elga's Purelab flex. Born 1955, the Red Dot awards recognize and honor the very best product designs and, in 2011, over 4,400 of the world's most advanced products from 60 different countries were considered for this internationally recognised mark of excellence and innovation. more12.05.2011

Michael Jewett: Agilent Early Career Professor Award Winner

Dr. Michael Jewett, assistant professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University, will receive Agilent Technologies' third annual Agilent Early Career Professor Award, which provides an unrestricted research award of $50,000 per year for two years to Northwestern in Dr. Jewett's name. more22.04.2011

Simon Boulton receives the EMBO Gold Medal 2011

Simon Boulton receives the award in recognition of his groundbreaking research on DNA repair mechanisms. The election committee was particularly impressed by his pioneering role in establishing the nematode worm, C. elegans, as a model system to study genome instability. The EMBO Gold Medal annually recognizes outstanding contributions of young researchers in the molecular life sciences. more29.03.2011

Efficient Ways to Harvest Sunlight to Make New Biofuels and Biomaterials

Scientists in the United States and the United Kingdom have been awarded funding totaling more than $ 10.3 million to improve the process of biological photosynthesis. The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.K. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) collaborated in issuing these jointly funded awards. Photosynthesis allows biological systems to use sunlight and carbon dioxide to produce sugars and oxygen. This process is ultimately responsible for the food we eat and the fossil fuels we burn today. more