Drug Discovery & Development Scientists’ Choice Award 2025 winners announced

The world’s most innovative and effective technologies advancing drug discovery and development have been recognized in the latest release of the 2025 Scientists’ Choice Awards^®.

Each year, SelectScience invites its scientist readers and members from around the globe to participate by nominating, reviewing, and voting for the lab products that have had the greatest impact on their work. Read on to reveal your chosen winners.

Best New Drug Discovery & Development Product of 2024

The award for Best New Drug Discovery & Development Product of 2024 goes to the NovoCyte Opteon Spectral Flow Cytometer from Agilent Technologies, as voted for by scientists around the world. The NovoCyte Opteon Spectral Flow Cytometer is a new, cutting-edge spectral flow cytometry solution designed to revolutionize cell analysis research.

The runners up are:

• Cydem VT System by Beckman Coulter Life Sciences
• PhysioMimix^® Bioavailability assay kit: Human 18 by CN Bio
• FLASH Gene by GenScript
• Cell Care STAR by Hamilton Company
• Olink^® Target 48 Immune Surveillance Panel by Olink Proteomics
• 3M™ Harvest RC Centrate Chromatographic Clarifier by Solventum
• Resolvex^® i300 by Tecan
• Thermo Scientific™ KingFisher™ PlasmidPro Maxi Processor by Thermo Fisher Scientific
• Multiplexed Gene Fragments by Twist Bioscience
• ACQUITY QDa II Mass Detector by Waters

Drug Discovery & Development Webinar of the Year

This year’s Webinar of the Year is awarded to Felix Stemmer, Senior Scientist II, and Martin Jockel, Senior Expert in Data Science, from Novartis, in association with Genedata. In the webinar, titled ‘Full-Circle MS Workflow Automation at Novartis', Novartis demonstrates how it is digitalizing and fully automating systems across large molecule R&D. By integrating liquid handling systems, mass spectrometers, and the Genedata Biopharma platform, Novartis has implemented a ‘full-circle’ mass spectrometry (MS) workflow automation for standardized analyses.

Drug Discovery & Development Editorial Article of the Year

The winning article is titled 'Matrix approach enhances potency assay development for ATMPs' and features technology from Tecan. In this article, scientists at Charles River Laboratories share top tips for overcoming the challenges of designing a potency assay development strategy for advanced therapy medicinal products.

Drug Discovery & Development Application eBook of the Year

The Drug Discovery & Development Application eBook of the Year Award goes to GenScript for ‘Accelerate neoantigen-based immunotherapy development for cancer treatment’. This application compendium aims to address the significant challenges faced by scientists and laboratory professionals in the timely generation of reagents essential for accelerating patient therapies.

Drug Discovery & Development Video of the Year – in partnership with The Scientists' Channel^®

This year’s winning video is awarded to a presentation titled 'Monoclonal antibodies and antibody drug conjugates revolutionize targeted therapies' produced in collaboration with Cytiva. In this interview, Dr. Lena Jonsson, Product Strategy Manager at Cytiva, explores the revolutionary impact of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) in the field of healthcare.

Drug Discovery & Development Email of the Year

The winner in the Email of the Year category goes to 'From Development to Manufacturing: The Future of Biologic Clarification', from Solventum. The winning email featured Solventum's 3M™ Harvest RC Centrate Chromatographic Clarifier which is a single stage single-use chromatographic clarification solution designed to effectively clarify modern cell culture centrates.

Drug Discovery & Development Innovative Content of the Year

The winner in the Innovative Content category goes to 'Humanized mice are reshaping the biologic drug development pipeline' from The Jackson Laboratory. The winning innovative content featured resources for JAX’s humanized models and in vivo services.

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