Sponsors

Platinum sponsors

Waters Corporation, the premium brand in the analytical instruments and software industry, creates business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations by delivering practical and sustainable scientific innovation to enable significant advancements.

Waters instruments and software enable significant advancements in such areas as healthcare delivery, clinical research, forensic toxicology, sports medicine, drug discovery and development, environmental management, food and beverage quality control, food safety testing, and water quality analysis worldwide.

Bringing keen understanding and deep experience to those responsible for laboratory infrastructure and performance, Waters helps customers make profound discoveries, optimize laboratory operations, deliver product performance, and ensure regulatory compliance by providing a connected portfolio of separations and analytical science, laboratory informatics, mass spectrometry, thermal analysis products, and post-sales support services.

Waters Corporation is unique in that it is the only company to meet the challenges of today’s discovery, development, process support, and quality control scientists by combining its own advanced separation technologies, powerful mass spectrometers and informatics tools in many novel ways. Our instruments, informatics, and chemistry products are designed specifically to meet the needs of laboratories for quality data and data management. Waters’ post-sales support personnel consistently receive the highest marks for their breadth of knowledge and their ability to deliver support services.

Waters drives decision-making and improves laboratory effectiveness by providing the technology breakthroughs and laboratory solutions to provide an enduring platform for customer success, improve the quality of today’s science and explore the infinite possibilities of tomorrow’s.

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Gold sponsors

The premier measurement company — advancing electronics, communications, life sciences and chemical analysis.

EPAM Life Sciences offers offers world-class software engineering, algorithm development, content development, and other consulting services to help your company meet all of its information technology needs.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of $12 billion, we have approximately 39,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries. We create value for our key stakeholders through three premier brands, Thermo Scientific, Fisher Scientific and Unity™ Lab Services, which offer a unique combination of innovative technologies, convenient purchasing options and a single solution for laboratory operations management. Our products and services help our customers solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity.

Merck, a leading science and technology company, operates across healthcare, life science and performance materials. Around 52,000 employees work to make a positive difference to millions of people’s lives every day by creating more joyful and sustainable ways to live. From advancing gene editing technologies and discovering unique ways to treat the most challenging diseases to enabling the intelligence of devices – the company is everywhere.

Scientific exploration and responsible entrepreneurship have been key to Merck’s technological and scientific advances. This is how Merck has thrived since its founding in 1668. The founding family remains the majority owner of the publicly listed company. Merck holds the global rights to the Merck name and brand. The only exceptions are the United States and Canada, where the business sectors of Merck operate as EMD Serono in healthcare, MilliporeSigma in life science, and EMD Performance Materials.

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