GE Healthcare has announced that Dr Magnus Malmqvist, Inger Ronnberg and Robert Karlsson have won the SBS Polypops Award.
The award comes in recognition of the development of surface plasmon resonance (SPR) for high-throughput protein interaction analysis, at Biacore AB, Sweden (now part of GE Healthcare).
The award will be presented at the SBS 15th Annual Conference and Exhibition in Lille, France, on 29 April.
Label-free interaction analysis is of growing importance for scientists in academia, pharmaceuticals, biotech and diagnostics.
Biacore systems generate data on the interactions between proteins and other molecules, including small-molecule drug candidates.
During research, development and manufacture, these data give insights into protein functionality, elucidate disease mechanisms and play a key role in developing and producing therapeutics.
Biacore systems are used in drug discovery, antibody characterisation, proteomics, immunogenicity, biotherapeutic development and manufacture and many life-science research applications.
Robert Karlsson, Biacore Research and Development, GE Healthcare, published the original paper on kinetic analysis of biomolecular interactions using surface plasmon resonance, in 1991.
One of the founders of Biacore, Inger Ronnberg's initial work focused on applications for label-free surface plasmon resonance detection, which resulted in the introduction of the first Biacore instrument in 1990.
