Award recognises organisations that drive improvements in productivity or in conceptual breakthroughs of scientific communication or process methodology through laboratory informatics software
Waters announces that Apotex, a Canadian pharmaceutical company, is the 2005 recipient of the company's Pioneer Award.
This award recognises forward-looking organisations that drive improvements in productivity or in conceptual breakthroughs of scientific communication or process methodology through the use of a Waters laboratory informatics software.
Richard Brooks, vice president of Americas marketing at Waters, presented the Pioneer award to Marjan Anwar Kahn, principal consultant at Apotex during Waters's recent Inform 2005 user symposium.
According to Brooks, Apotex is a true pioneer in spearheading the shift to a paperless laboratory, thereby optimising product delivery, ensuring information integrity and meeting compliance requirements.
"Apotex recognises the upside of a paperless laboratory and is already realising process efficiencies, improved collaboration across its laboratories and greater control and management of its scientific information," Brooks said.
Khan said: "We are very pleased with this distinction.
"Our strategy is to take advantage of the best tools in the marketplace.
"Waters informatics software has been part of this strategy since 2001 and will continue to be the foundation for our improved collaboration and information management".
Apotex is said to be Canada's largest manufacturer of generic drugs.
With 250 drugs in its portfolio, the company decided to use an electronic model to manage numerous amounts of data to support its regulatory compliance needs.
By integrating existing document management, lifecycle applications and review capabilities into Waters NuGenesis SDMS (scientific data management system) Software, Apotex is able to significantly reduce the time it takes to collect data and analyse results and transmit findings to regulatory agencies in the USA, Europe, Canada, and Japan.
This reduced time-to-market puts Apotex in the enviable position of first-in-line to manufacture a brand drug when it goes off-market.
The Waters laboratory informatics organisation created the Pioneer Award to foster the success of its clients by recognising the implementation and innovative use of Waters information-management software solutions.
It is intended to recognise the most outstanding efforts to better enable research, development, and manufacturing of science-based products using Waters informatics products.
The Inform 2005 organising committee evaluated nominees from pharmaceutical, biotech, chemical, environmental, food and beverage, academia, government, and medical organisations as well as public and private research labs.
The criteria included innovative use of Waters laboratory informatics software on a project or organisational level to achieve significantly improved results, interoperability or integration of Waters eLab Notebook software or NuGenesis SDMS software with other applications, and meeting the demands on intellectual property management and regulatory compliance.
Past winners have included Ricerca, Andrx Pharmaceuticals, and Bristol Myers Squibb.
Apotex employs over 5000 people and makes more than 250 generic pharmaceuticals.
Apotex plans to invest more than US$1 billion in R and D over the next ten years to develop both generic and innovative medicines.
Waters Corporation holds worldwide leading positions in three complementary analytical technologies: liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, and thermal analysis.
These market segments account for $4.4 billion of the overall $20+ billion analytical instrumentation market.
