SelectScience Announces Winner of Clinical Scientists’ Choice Awards

SelectScience announces the QuantStudio™ Dx Real-Time PCR Instrument, by Life Technologies, as the winner of the Scientists’ Choice Award for Best New Clinical Product for 2012. The award presentation will take place during the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo in Houston, Texas, USA.

The Scientists’ Choice Awards recognize new products which have significantly contributed towards laboratory efforts in 2012. Life Technologies won the Clinical award, which was both nominated and voted for by clinical scientists around the world.

Winner of the Best New Clinical Product of 2012:

Quantstudio™ Dx Real-Time PCR Instrument
Life Technologies

The QuantStudio™ Dx Real-Time PCR Instrument has been designed specifically for the multiple needs required by the clinical laboratory. The instrument can perform numerous diagnostic functions, including pathogen detection, gene expression analysis, SNP genotyping, copy number analysis, mutation detection, micro-RNA and other non-coding RNA analysis, and high-resolution melt analysis.

Runners-up:
Abbott Laboratories Architect HBsAg Test
EMD/Merck Millipore Corporation AFS® Essential Water Purification Systems
Eppendorf New Eppendorf Xplorer plus® Electronic Pipette
Alifax SPA ALFRED AST Blood Culture Susceptibility Test/MRSA
Roche Diagnostics Elecsys HE4 Assay on e411

Scientists were invited to nominate and then vote for their favorite Clinical product, launched in 2012, in a series of online surveys. Sonia Nicholas, Clinical Diagnostics Editor at SelectScience, commented: “The Scientists’ Choice Awards provide a unique opportunity for clinical scientists around the world to celebrate the incredible advances that are being made in the field of diagnostics. Such advances revolutionize how laboratories perform, and often have significant impact on patient care. These awards are unique since the nominees and winners are chosen by members of SelectScience.”

For more information about the Scientists’ Choice Awards visit www.scientistschoiceawards.com.

About The Scientists’ Choice Awards:
SelectScience, the web’s most comprehensive buyers’ guide for laboratory scientists, began the Scientists’ Choice Awards in 2007 to enable scientists to voice their opinions on the best laboratory products. Once a year, SelectScience invites members to nominate their favorite products of the year in each category.

About SelectScience:
Established in 1998, SelectScience provides scientists with the fastest way to impartial, expert opinion about the best laboratory equipment and latest techniques.