SLAS2015 Welcomes Nearly 4,700 to Washington DC
SLAS welcomed 4,695 participants from 34 countries to SLAS2015, the Fourth Annual SLAS Conference and Exhibition, held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, Feb. 7-11, 2015. This select and diverse collection of scientists, academicians, business leaders and students from around the globe benefitted from an extensive lineup of education, new production information, and opportunities to connect with peers interested in charting the future of laboratory science and technology.
Award Winners
As is the SLAS tradition, a host of distinctive awards were recognized at SLAS2015:
Student Poster Awards
- Poster #1026: Screening for Synergy of Resveratrol and Repurposed Drugs Towards Retinoblastoma
Kathryn Champ, Johns Hopkins University - Poster #7018: A Microfluidic Device with Integrated Oxygen Sensors for the Cell-Based Screening of Cancer Treatments under Transient Hypoxia
Samantha Grist, University of British Columbia, Vancouver - Poster #5004: Utilizing Small Molecules to Study Mitochondria Presequence-degrading Protease
Juwina Wijaya, University of California Los Angeles
New Product Awards
296 companies participated in the SLAS2015 Exhibition, 61 of which submitted new products to be considered for the SLAS2015 New Product Award. The winners included:
- BlueCatBio; Product: BlueWasher
- Sony Corporation; Product: Sony SI8000 Cell Motion Imaging System
- regenHU Ltd; Product: 3DDiscovery BioSafety Cabinet
- ReSyn Biosciences Pty Ltd; Product: MagReSyn
2015 SLAS Innovation Award
10 podium presentations were selected as finalists for the 2015 SLAS Innovation Award. The final round of judging took place during SLAS2015, when all presentations were evaluated based on a specific set of criteria. Following deliberations at the conference, Jonathan Wingfield, AstraZeneca, Cambridge, United Kingdom was selected as the 2015 SLAS Innovation Award Winner for his presentation, Novel Acoustic Loading of a Mass Spectrometer — Towards Next Generation High Throughput MS Screening. This presentation will be available as an on demand webinar in the coming weeks.
SLAS2016
SLAS2016, the Fifth Annual SLAS International Conference and Exhibition, will be held January 23-27 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, CA, USA. Short Courses will take place Saturday-Sunday, Jan. 23-24; the Exhibition and Conference will run Monday-Wednesday, Jan. 25-27. The latest information on SLAS2016 can be found at www.slas2016.org ; where the SLAS2016 Call for Presentations will be posted in March 2015.
