The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) has announced the addition of several market place briefings to augment LabAutomation2010.
From 23-27 January, Palm Springs Convention Center, CA, USA, will be holding additional special sessions covering market intelligence.
On 25 January, the centre will be host to the 2009 North American Laboratory Equipment Purchasing Trends Report.
ALA and the Laboratory Products Association (LPA) will host an official briefing to unveil the preliminary results from the study.
The study addresses: how the economy is affecting purchases in the laboratory; the effect of the Obama Stimulus Package on organisations; which organisations are applying for economic stimulus grants; the probability and time frame for receiving grants; and what products/services will be purchased with grants.
ALA has invited Maulik Jasubhai, group chief executive of India's Chemtech Foundation, to present a 90min symposium providing a market overview of the growing pharmaceutical industry in India.
A session held on 27 January 27, will inform on how Toolpoint for Life Science, an association of life science instrument suppliers based in Zurich, is developing an interface standard allowing for rapid integration of laboratory automation systems.
The session show how the Sila Standard is progressing to cover all ISO/OSI levels of the device control interface from physical to application layer, and support three different integration levels, which standardises the interface between laboratory automation devices and process-management systems.
MF3's Pioneering Commercialisation from Academia to Market will be held on 27 January at Palm Springs Convention Center The Micro/Nano Fluidics Fundamentals Focus (MF3) Center, based at the University of California at Irvine, is an industry-academia-government consortium performing micro/nano fluidic (MF) research that provides solutions to the US Department of Defense and other commercial enterprises.
Comprising 12 universities nationwide, the MF3 Center includes leading researchers in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and chemistry.
This session showcases every aspect of commercialisation process from idea generation to manufacturing and market.
