Nanion has been nominated for the German Industry Innovation Award, due to its product portfolio of automated patch clamp systems.
More than 350 companies competed in this year's Innovation Award, and Nanion is finalist in the category 'Start-up Companies'.
The company is one of the five remaining candidates for the award, and the winner will be announced on 24 January.
The Syncropatch 96 is a screening platform, capable of highly parallel recordings from up to 96 cells at a time.
It will be launched at the Biophysical Society's Annual Meeting in Boston, Masachusetts, USA, at the end of February.
It supports giga-seal recordings at a throughput of 5,000 data points per day.