Thermo Fisher Scientific to Highlight New Laboratory Solutions during UK Summer Symposium

HEMEL HEMPSTEAD, England (April 27 2011) – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a free summer symposium presenting the latest developments in laboratory solutions. Following the success of last year’s event, the Summer Symposium returns in 2011 with a much broader scope that offers something for all scientific researchers. The event is scheduled for Tuesday 7th June 2011 in the prestigious QEII Conference Centre near the Palace of Westminster in London. Space is limited, so pre-registration is recommended to guarantee a place. To register, please visit www.thermoscientific.com/uksummersymposium.

The symposium will include presentations from scientists within Thermo Fisher and customers representing organizations that use Thermo Scientific products and equipment in their daily research. The symposium will commence with an open plenary session to introduce participants to the Thermo Scientific brand and illustrate how the company’s broad portfolio of complete laboratory solutions can help make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. The remainder of the event will include parallel sessions that feature independent speakers discussing recent technology and application developments.

Scott Brothers Introduces New Honeywell Evaporative Coolers In Time For Summer 2011

Scott Brothers Ltd., the specialist distributor of innovative portable cooling solutions and storage products for the home, announces the launch of the new Honeywell CO301PC and CL60PM evaporative air coolers. The new air coolers deliver the large air flow necessary for outdoor applications and are also suitable for indoor use, making them ideal for staying cool over the summer months.

The Honeywell Evaporative Air Cooler model CO301PC is a rugged yet elegant outdoor evaporative air cooler with a touch control panel and full function remote control, enabling the user to achieve their desired temperature with ease. The cooler is an ideal outdoor air cooling system for gardens and patios and its modern design makes it suitable for offices, shops, reception areas and banks.

Equipped with a powerful airflow of 1410m3/hr and a low energy motor of 250 watts, the CO301PC is an environmentally friendly yet robust cooler system. Its 30 litre water capacity dramatically reduces air temperature providing sufficient cooling to any space and its slim-line design makes it portable and easy to move around where needed. The cooler also comes with a direct water feed which has a built-in overflow protection system making refilling the water tank hassle-free. 

ITT Analytics’ AADI and The University of North Carolina partner to monitor oil and gas releases in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida Keys

ATLANTA, GA., April 28, 2011— ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT) announced that its AADI brand has teamed up with the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill to develop two new multi-sensor arrays to detect light hydrocarbons and oxygen depletion associated with oil and gas releases such as recent occurrences in the northern Gulf of Mexico. This research is vital to monitor the long-term effects of water contamination and its threat to coral reef and other coastal ecosystems. The multi-sensor arrays, built on AADI’s SEAGUARD platform, have enabled scientists in the University’s Department of Marine Sciences to set new standards for the efficiency of analyses while offering unmatched precision and simple deployment.

The AADI SEAGUARD platform from ITT Analytics is a multi-parameter instrument offering advanced flexibility and real-time capabilities for underwater observation. The first of the new arrays developed from the platform, nicknamed HANDI by the UNC-Chapel Hill scientists, was deployed for testing in 2010 at Conch Reef off Key Largo, Florida. The array assisted the team by effectively detecting oxygen depletion and potential oil and gas transport along the reef ecosystem’s border with fast-moving water in the Florida Straits. Equipped with two of AADI’s fast-response optodes from ITT Analytics, HANDI offers the team immediate and reliable dissolved oxygen measurements without the need for repeated calibrations.

Learn “How to manage communications in Asia” at ABCA Conference

Jacky Cheng from The Scott Partnership's China office is chairman of Asia Business Communications Association (ABCA) – a non-profit organization and a social network of communicators. It runs monthly salons, and occasionally runs training programs, conferences.

As more and more companies have located their Asia-Pacific headquarters in China, we see more communicators are taking Asia-Pacific responsibilities now, but it is also difficult for them to understand different cultures in the wide Asia region. So ABCA is organizing a conference on June 3^rd to talk about “How to manage communications in Asia”, with confirmed speakers from key countries across Asia including Japan, Korea, India, Singapore, Vietnam (and TBC one more speaker from Australia/New Zealand). All of the speakers are very senior and very experienced in communication industry and will talk about the difference of running communication programs in their countries/regions. This will be an excellent opportunity for companies to meet with experts from those countries to have first-hand information about the way of running communication programs in Asia.

For more information or to register for the event please contact: 

Joyce Wang

T: +86 21 5820 4200

M: +86 138 1665 3070

joyce.wang@bizcomms.asia

Sage-N Research Releases New Developer Toolkit That Facilitates Integration of SORCERER Platform With Independent Software Suites

MILPITAS, 26th April 2011 - Sage-N Research, Inc., the world leader in computational proteomics announced today a new API toolkit for developers of proteomics data analysis software. The toolkit will enable software developers to add the power and sensitivity of SORCERER analyses to their existing software packages, expanding the utility of the SORCERER platform for high-throughput proteomics laboratories.

The SORCERER is a customized platform that can be used by researchers studying, diseases like cancer and stem cell research. It combines SORCERER Enterprise 4.0 software with a range of additional proprietary post-processing tools such as ETD analysis, ASCORE, MUSE and CENSUS. A key feature of the SORCERER platform is SEQUEST 3G that was developed in partnership with Professor John R. Yates III of the Scripps Research. The API toolkit  allows other applications, either running on the SORCERER platform or accessing it across the network from another computer, to specify and submit SEQUEST 3G searches, to track and control submitted searches and to retrieve hits and scores.  SEQUEST 3G is Sage-N Research's next-generation evolution of the original SEQUEST algorithm for MS-MS protein identification, with enhanced sensitivity for PTM analysis.

Molecular Profiles' Innovative Drug Development Services Win Queen's Award for Enterprise 2011

(Nottingham, UK, 21 April 2011) Molecular Profiles, a leading pharmaceutical development service provider, today announced that it has been awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise 2011 in the Innovation category for its nanoPASS (nanoscale Predictive Analytical Screening Solution) service platform. This novel analytical approach improves the development of new pharmaceuticals by exploiting the latest advances in nanotechnology to yield key analytical data from minute quantities of potential drug candidates and then predicting those candidates that are most likely to make it to market. It helps customers to substantially reduce R&D and production costs and enables earlier introduction of new medicines to market benefiting both industry and patients.

The Queen's Award for Enterprise is the most prestigious and widely recognised accolade for UK industry. The Innovation category recognises companies that have demonstrated spectacular commercial success through innovative products or services. Following a 2007 Queen's Award for Continuous Innovation and Development, the 2011 award honours Molecular Profiles for the creation of cutting-edge development services that significantly improve and speed-up the introduction of new drugs.

Celebrating Pittcon 2011 success!

Cheers! The Scott Partnership team enjoyed a glass of champagne together to celebrate yet another successful year at Pittcon, the world’s largest exposition for laboratory science.

After a busy first quarter preparing for the show, it was time to say well done and recognise our achievements. The Scott Partnership supported some of the world’s leading analytical instrumentation companies at Pittcon 2011, organising media activity including press conferences, media dinners with company executives and editor meetings on booth.

Attending Pittcon myself for the first time this year, it was great to see full press conference rooms and successful meetings between our clients and key industry journalists. Although not everyone in the TSP team was present in Atlanta, it really was a team effort this year with months of meticulous planning, phone calls and editor liaison.

As we raised our glasses in the office a toast was made to a successful Pittcon 2012…grab your sunglasses, we’re going to Orlando!

We’ll see you there,

Lindsay

Thermo Fisher Scientific – UK Summer Symposium Seminar, June 7th 2011 9am-5pm EST

Thermo Fisher Scientific – UK Summer Symposium Seminar, June 7^th 2011 9am-5pm EST.

Location: QEII Conference Centre, London. UK

The Symposium will include presentations from scientists both from within the company and key users from representative organisations who are utilising Thermo Scientific products and equipment to further their daily research. In addition, Thermo Scientific representatives will be available throughout the day to discuss any technical questions. A parallel exhibition will showcase the latest updates in Thermo Scientific products from across the company including scientific instrumentation, laboratory products, microbiology and cellomics as well as related products from selected third party suppliers to enhance your research and analyses.

Join us for the 2011 Thermo Fisher Scientific Summer Symposium. Attendance is free of charge. Please visit http://www.thermoscientific.com/uksummersymposium to register.

Payne Security Wins Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation

(April 21st, 2011) - Payne Security has been awarded a Queen's Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category, for its covert product authentication system. This new security technology delivers a robust and cost-effective solution to Governments and commercial concerns for protecting against fraudulent and counterfeit activity by differentiating between genuine and illicit products or documents.  A leading supplier of brand protection, document security and card solutions, Payne Security receives the award in the company's centenary year.

The Queen's Awards for Enterprise recognises outstanding achievement by UK businesses in the categories of Innovation, International Trade and Sustainable Development. Awarded annually on 21st April, to coincide with Her Majesty the Queen's birthday, candidates are judged to a demanding standard and must demonstrate the highest levels of excellence in each category. The award will be formally conferred by a grant of appointment, which will be presented to Payne Security by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire later in the year.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces New Method for Ultra-Fast Inclusion Analysis in Steel

ECUBLENS, Switzerland - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced a new ultra-fast method for characterizing steel cleanness by analyzing inclusions using optical emission spectroscopy (OES). The method, which uses the Thermo Scientific Spark-DAT option on the Thermo Scientific ARL 4460 Metals Analyzer, significantly enhances the capabilities of the instrument and offers a faster and more cost-effective alternative to existing methods of characterizing steel cleanness.

Inclusions can affect the properties and the quality of steel, making their control vital. The Spark-DAT option enables steel manufacturers to identify, characterize and count inclusions in only a few seconds, making it highly effective for steel production. The advanced Spark-DAT option features a unique methodology and software technology and offers a range of innovative applications for the characterization of steel cleanness. These applications include the determination of inclusion size and distribution and the quantitative analysis of total oxygen content at concentrations of 30ppm and below in killed steel samples.

The Scott Partnership Appointed by Greenphire, Leading Provider of Clinical Payment and Technology Solutions

Cheshire, UK (April 20, 2011) - Global life sciences and technology strategic communications agency The Scott Partnership, announces that it has been appointed by Pennsylvania-based Greenphire to lead a PR campaign aimed at raising company and brand awareness. Since being founded in 2007, Greenphire's clinical payment and communication technologies have been adopted by over 100 unique clients throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. This latest addition to The Scott Partnership's portfolio is a further step in the company's ongoing expansion, strengthening its customer base and presence in the clinical studies market.

Patients participating in clinical trials have traditionally been reimbursed for their time and expenses by paper check. This is not an efficient payment method as checks are both time- and cost-intensive to administer, and in addition can be costly for the patient as approximately 60 million Americans are currently living without a bank account. In response, Greenphire have introduced an auditable card payment and communication system called the ClinCard solution which allows the study participants to be reimbursed in real-time through a reloadable debit card. The ClinCard is coupled with protocol, appointment and financial communication custom tailored to the study, resulting in benefits of increased subject retention and protocol compliance. The ClinCard solution is currently utilized by over 35 Sponsor companies and across over 1,000 studies at present. The Scott Partnership will undertake a PR campaign that further raises the profile of the company within the clinical industry.

SmartKem Receives Investment Funding To Continue Innovative Development

(April 20, 2011) - SmartKem Limited, the developer of novel, printable organic semiconductor materials and ink formulations for flexible electronics, today announced it has received investment funding from the Porton Capital Group and Finance Wales Investments Limited. The investment allows SmartKem to further develop its flexible printed electronics solutions.

Based in Denbighshire, Wales, SmartKem is a high technology enterprise delivering and generating a novel range of high mobility organic semiconductor molecules and ink formulations compatible with printed electronic processes. This is an inexpensive, low weight, low energy, alternative to silicon semiconductors and can be used to print organic circuits and devices onto thin flexible substrates such as plastics and paper.

The investment comes at a key time for SmartKem who has just completed a key R&D phase and is focusing on the formulation of innovative organic semiconductor inks for improved performance and manufacturing of printed transistor arrays and logic circuits. SmartKem's vision is to deliver world-leading printable semiconductor technology to the microelectronics industry for applications such as electronic displays, thin-film RFID, smart sensors and printed logic circuits. The funding puts SmartKem at a definitive position in the microelectronics market.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Free European Seminar Series on Food Safety Methods and Technologies

DREIEICH, Germany. - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced an upcoming food safety seminar series that takes place in six locations across Europe. The series, conducted in English, will run from May 3-12 2011, and each seminar will focus on the latest global regulations and food safety concerns and their effect on food analysis and technology. The locations and dates for the seminars are as follows:

. Hemel, England - May 3
. Hamburg, Germany - May 5
. Prague, Czech Republic - May 10
. Paris, France - May 11
. Torino, Italy - May 12

Please visit www.thermoscientific.com/foodsafetyseminar to register.

ERT Awarded over $10 Million of ePRO Business from Major Pharma - Increasing its Position as a Leading ePRO Provider

PHILADELPHIA, PA - 14 April 2011 ERT, a global technology-driven provider of clinical services and customizable medical devices to biopharmaceutical and healthcare organizations, announced today that it was awarded three new contracts with top tier pharmaceutical companies, totaling over $10 million for its electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO) business. The company has been selected to provide its diverse multi-modality solutions, reinforcing its position as a leading provider of multi-mode ePRO devices and services.

Novozymes Biopharma to present latest advances in cell culture technology at ESACT

Study findings on industrial cell culture and stem and therapeutic cell culture to be presented at the 2011 ESACT meeting.

NOTTINGHAM, UK - April 12, 2011 - Novozymes Biopharma, part of Novozymes A/S, world leader in bioinnovation, today announced that the company will present two scientific posters at the 2011 ESACT meeting, May 15-18, Vienna, Austria. The posters highlight the application of animal-free recombinant supplements in cell-based viral vaccine production as well as animal-free cryopreservation and recovery media. For more information or to request a copy of the scientific posters, please visit booth #117 at the 2011 ESACT meeting or www.biopharma.novozymes.com.

"Novozymes is delighted to present its latest study findings in cell culture applications at ESACT," comments Dermot Pearson, Marketing Director at Novozymes Biopharma. "We're working continuously to develop solutions for the industry's most challenging problems and are pleased to be able to demonstrate these latest advances that will help to optimize each stage of the biomanufacturing process."

ITT Analytics' ebro introduces the EBI 40 multi-channel thermocouple data logger for high-accuracy measurement

WHITE PLAINS, NY., April 11, 2011 - ITT Corporation (NYSE:ITT) announces the introduction of the first of the ebro EBI 40 multi-channel data loggers from ITT Analytics. The 12-channel thermocouple data logger is ideal for thermal mapping in food, industrial, pharmaceutical and general lab applications, offering simple and high-accuracy measurement over wide temperature ranges.

The easy-to-use ebro EBI 40 multi-channel thermocouple data logger from ITT Analytics, has been designed for a wide-range of applications including the measurement of core temperatures during baking processes, monitoring baking and freezing procedures and validation of dry heat sterilizers. In addition, the system enables simple qualification of coating lines and heat distribution studies in thermal chambers. Offering precise quality control of processes due to constant temperature monitoring, the data logger ensures repeatability. The instrument also provides users with increased productivity and performance, resulting in significant cost savings and increased product output.

RICS appoints The Scott Partnership as media representative in China

April 8, 2011 Beijing – RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) today announced the appointment of The Scott Partnership as its media and communications partner in China from April 1^st.  This appointment aims to solidify the organization’s commitment, and to build recognition in China as the mark of property professionalism.

RICS is a global organization with over 140 years of representing professionals involving in land, valuation, real estate, construction and environmental issues. The organization has grown quickly in China in recent years and has established offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing and Guangzhou, with more than 1,200 individual professional members in China.

WYATT TECHNOLOGY UNVEILS NEW BROCHURE FOR ITS NEWLY LAUNCHED MÖBIUS MOBILITY INSTRUMENT

Wyatt Technology Corporation, the world leader in instrumentation for absolute macromolecular characterization, has published a brochure in support of its new electrophophoretic mobility instrument, the Möbius. The 10 page brochure is a comprehensive document that outlines the unique capabilities of The Möbius, including an increased number of detectors at a variety of angles which produce a greater amount of data than any other "zeta-potential"
instrument. The surfeit of data results in the production of more reproducible results than ever before. The brochure highlights that the instrument is up to ten times more sensitive than the other instruments on the market and the first and only light scattering instrument that makes reliable, reproducible and non-destructive electrophoretic mobility measurements of macromolecules as small as 1nm while under dilute solution conditions. Furthermore, The Möbius can collect thirty times as much data as conventional technologies and produce the result in as few as thirty seconds.

Top 10 Global Pharmaceutical Company Selects Payne Security’s Tear Tape Solution to Protect Against Counterfeit Drugs

Payne Security, a leading supplier of brand protection solutions, has announced that one of its anti-counterfeiting solutions has been selected by a top ten global pharmaceutical company. The company selected Payne’s bespoke holographic Tear Tape technology to provide high security, protect its pharmaceutical products from counterfeiting and to provide tamper evidence. The overt technology was selected to provide a rapid, visual security solution that could provide instant reassurance to medical staff concerning the legitimacy and safety of the bottled drug product. The client revealed that counterfeiters, working together with corrupt health care workers and supply chain staff, were collecting empty product bottles, filling them with combinations of authentic and counterfeit product and then reintroducing the counterfeits into the supply chain. With increasing numbers of counterfeit drugs entering the market, the pharmaceutical company needed a rapidly deployable solution and approached Payne Security for specialist advice on the most appropriate solution to enable medical staff to instantly authenticate products through visual inspection.

How to Run Your Marketing Communications Effectively in Asia

During Pittcon 2011, The Scott Partnership and International Labmate delivered a short-course entitled 'Marketing in Asia Pacific - A practical guide for Managers'. The programme was aimed at marketing managers, company owners, sales and business development professionals and scientists wanting help to succeed in targeting the Asian market.

Jacky Cheng, Managing Director, The Scott Partnership China, hosted a presentation entitled 'How to Run Your Marketing Communications Effectively in Asia', discussing the growing economy, the evolving media and other mar-com tools used in China. Watch Jacky's presentation after the jump.