Exclusive Special Educational Sessions and Market Place Briefings
In keeping with its mission to advance science and education related to laboratory automation, ALA has collaborated and partnered with leading scientific organizations to offer new relevant educational sessions and informational briefings at LabAutomation2010. These new programs bring an even higher level of educational excellence and value to the conference.
2009 North American Laboratory Equipment Purchasing Trends Report
Monday, January 25, Palm Springs Convention Center
Clark Mulligan, Executive Director, Laboratory Products Association
KC Warawa, KC Associates, Littleton, Colorado
For the first-time ever ALA and the Laboratory Products Association (LPA) will host an official breakfast briefing to unveil the results from the 2009 North American Laboratory Equipment Purchasing Trends Study - and the preliminary results of the first quarter 2010 follow-up. The survey covers spending in nine product categories including laboratory automation, as well as capital and non-capital equipment budgets, workload and personnel changes, outsourcing of specific functions, and other key questions on future spending. The 2009 survey and 2010 first-quarter follow-up also contains detailed and insightful information regarding the impact on the economy and laboratory purchasing trends from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
Market Overview: India's Emerging Pharmaceutical Market
Monday, January 25, Palm Springs Convention Center
Maulik Jasubhai, Group Chief Executive, CHEMTECH Foundation, Mumbai, India
With India recognized as one of the fastest growing pharmaceutical markets in the world,
ALA has invited Maulik Jasubhai, Group Chief Executive, of India's largest non-profit scientific society Chemtech Foundation, headquartered in Mumbai, to present a 90-minute symposium providing a comprehensive market overview of the growing pharmaceutical industry in India. According to Jasubhai, India's market volume now ranks fourth in the world, with exports expected to top $22 billion by the year 2012 with most of the value generated by generics and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).
The SiLA Consortium for Standardization in Laboratory Automation (SiLA)
Wednesday, January 27, Palm Springs Convention Center
Carsten Etzold, Hamilton Company, Bonaduz, Switzerland
Toolpoint for Life Science, an association of life science instrument suppliers based in Zurich, Switzerland, is developing a new interface standard allowing for rapid integration of laboratory automation systems. Attend this up-to-the-minute session and learn 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 standardizes the interface between laboratory automation devices and process management systems.
The MF3 Center: Pioneering Commercialization from Academia to Market
Wednesday, January 27, Palm Springs Convention Center
Abraham Lee, MF3 Center Director and Biomedical Engineering Professor, University of California, Irvine
Gisela Lin, MF3 Center Development Manager, University of California, Irvine
Bruce Peterson, Corporate Director, Douglas Scientific
Wen-Chy Chu, Senior Research Manager, Pioneer Hi-Bred International
Steve Pentoney, Director of Scientific Affairs & Technology Management, Beckman Coulter
The Micro/Nano Fluidics Fundamentals Focus (MF3) Center, based at the University of California at Irvine, is an industry-academia-government consortium performing fundamental micro/nano fluidic (MF) research that provides solutions to the United States 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 special session showcases every aspect of commercialization process from idea generation through manufacturing and finally to market:
- Academic Aspect — MF3 faculty members serve as the catalyst for crystallizing and driving innovative ideas into prototypes for the market place.
- Manufacturing Aspect — MF3 corporate members produce, test and transition scalable prototype products through manufacturing to the market place.
- End-user Aspect — MF3 corporate partners emanating from diverse industries such asdiagnostic, medical instrumentation, agricultural biotechnology, and defense incorporate these prototypes to streamline customer workflows.
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