Scientists' Choice Awards winners announced at Pittcon 2020

The world’s most innovative, exciting and effective new general lab, separations and spectroscopy technologies have been recognized at a glitzy awards ceremony at Pittcon 2020. Winners of the 2020 Scientists’ Choice Awards^® for General Lab, Separations and Spectroscopy were announced by SelectScience Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Kerry Parker to an audience of industry leaders and scientists in Chicago. Now in their 13th year, the annual Scientists’ Choice Awards recognize the new technologies which have had the greatest impact on global scientific advancement. More scientists than ever have got involved this year by nominating and voting for their favorite lab products online. Read on as we reveal your chosen winners...

Best New General Lab Product

The award for Best New General Lab Product of 2019 goes to the Cubis® II laboratory balance from Sartorius Group.

Runners-up:

• OsmoTECH® PRO multi-sample micro-osmometer from Advanced Instruments
• HandyStep® touch repeating pipette from BrandTech® Scientific, Inc
• Corning® Lambda™ EliteTouch™ Pipettors from Corning Life Sciences
• Eppendorf conical tube 25 mL from Eppendorf
• RCT 5 digital magnetic stirrer with heating from IKA
• SureFlo™ multichannel reagent reservoirs from INTEGRA Biosciences
• XPR analytical balance from Mettler-Toledo International Inc.
• DuraChill® portable recirculating chillers from PolyScience
• Thermo Scientific Cytomat 2 C-LiN Series automated incubator from Thermo Fisher Scientific

Best New Separations Product

Designed to deliver the utmost flexibility, reliability and highest performance, the 8890 GC system by Agilent Technologies has been named Best New Separations Product of 2019.

Runners-up:

• Pure chromatography systems from BUCHI
• Sepapure® FPLC columns from KNAUER
• TD100-xr automated thermal desorption system from Markes International Ltd
• Strata®-X PRO SPE solution from Phenomenex Inc
• Allure Acrylamide LC columns from Restek Corp
• Nexera UHPLC series from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc
• YMC-Triart Bio C18 columns from YMC
• Automated TD-SIFT-MS technology from Syft Technologies and GERSTEL

Best New Spectroscopy Product

Scientists worldwide voted the InfinityLab Liquid Chromatography/Mass Selective Detector iQ (LC/MSD iQ) by Agilent Technologies the Best New Spectroscopy Product of 2019.

Runners-up:

• XGT-9000 X-ray analytical microscope (μXRF) from HORIBA Scientific
• Jupiter XR Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) from Oxford Instrument Asylum Research
• MALDImini-1 digital ion trap mass spectrometer from Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc
• Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap Eclipse™ Tribrid™ mass spectrometer from Thermo Fisher Scientific
• SYNAPT™ XS high resolution mass spectrometer from Waters
• ParticleScout particle analysis tool from WITec GmbH
• ultraDAWN™ real-time multi-angle light scattering system from Wyatt Technology

Analytical Science Video of the Year - in association with The Scientists' Channel

The winning video, ‘Analysis of pesticides in cannabis products’, features scientist Dr. Nathaly Reyes Garcés, R&D/applications chemist Colton Myers and Business Development Manager, Ashlee Gerardi, all from Restek, sharing their expertise on cannabis testing workflows and method development.

Analytical Science Article of the Year

This award goes to our fascinating interview with Dr. Claudio Ciferri, head of cryo-EM at Genentech, produced in partnership with Thermo Fisher Scientific and titled ‘Delivering the undeliverable: Enabling structural drug discovery through high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy’.

Analytical Science Application eBook of the Year

In this new category, the winner is our popular ‘HPLC: Improved sample preparation for high-sensitivity analysis’ eBook, produced in partnership with Sartorius Group. Regina Dubois, Global Campaigns Manager at Sartorius Group, commented; “My colleagues and I are honored that our eBook has been recognized by SelectScience, as we consistently strive to facilitate scientific discovery by providing relevant technical content to scientists. SelectScience is a preferred partner for us, given its strong brand recognition among scientists and its ability to distribute key content to the right technical audiences.”

Analytical Science Email of the Year

BUCHI collects this year’s award for the email ‘How to reduce hazards in chromatography’.

Analytical Science Webinar of the Year

The winner was ‘Improving Analytical Method Performance Through Quality Risk Management and a Design of Experiments Approach,’ presented by Tran Pham, Business Development Manager at Waters and Joseph A. Turpin, Director, Chromatography Products and Services from S-Matrix Corporation.

Reviewers' Choice – Analytical Science Company of the Year

This award goes to Metrohm AG for receiving consistently high customer review ratings across multiple products on SelectScience during 2019.

Reviewers' Choice – Analytical Science Customer Service of the Year

Wyatt Technology Corp. wins this coveted award in recognition of its high ratings from customers for after-sales service throughout 2019.

New Seals of Quality

SelectScience also presented two prized Bronze Seal of Quality trophies to VistaLab Technologies for two products that have consistently received multiple positive reviews from scientists on SelectScience.

Learn more about The Scientists' Choice Awards.