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 the meeting, 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.
