Scientists Vote in Record Numbers to Recognize the World's Top Lab Products

BRISTOL, U.K. - Nov. 29, 2018 - PRLog -- With nominations now open for next year's Scientists' Choice Awards, SelectScience^® takes a look back at some of the many highlights from 2018, which saw more scientists than ever from across the globe get involved in this huge annual celebration of the lab equipment and manufacturers that make a biggest difference to the science industry.

It's been quite a year for The Scientists' Choice Awards — a record number of scientists have taken the chance to share their opinions about the technologies and services which have done the most to advance their work.

Joining the conversation from right around the world, they made more nominations and cast more votes than ever before across the six award categories, more than doubling last year's effort — testament to the growing global awareness of these influential awards, as well as increased understanding of the importance of scientists sharing their knowledge and opinion with peers.

A festival of technological and communications excellence

It's been a full-on 12-month festival of excellence in the company of some of the world's leading scientists and industry lights, kicking off a year ago when nominations in the 2018 Drug Discovery and Development class opened and culminating in the glitzy new Digital Marketing Awards, which were held during Neuroscience in San Diego this month.

In total, 35 of these coveted awards (visit https://www.selectscience.net/scientistschoiceawards/) were presented at six major international science conferences, recognizing not just the most popular and effective new technologies, but also the most engaging, inspiring and innovative content and communications in the industry — and the scientists at the forefront of that movement, prepared to share their knowledge and expertise through interviews, webinars and on video.

Explaining just how much these awards mean to her team, Cynthia Cai, senior marketing director at Agilent Technologies, said the company was "honoured and excited" by its double success, adding: "We have a commitment to innovation with purpose, and this is truly recognition from our customers that this is making an impact in their laboratories and we're very happy with that."

The power of reviews

SelectScience also taps into the valuable opinions of thousands of scientist reviewers across the globe, through the Reviewers' Choice Awards which see awards presented to the products, customer service and manufacturers rated the highest by SelectScience reviewers over the past year.

In addition, positive reviews help the most popular lab products on the market gain a coveted SelectScience Seal of Quality.

Honoring scientific pioneers

With scientific communication becoming ever more important, SelectScience also recognized the most engaging and effective content of the past year – whether a webinar, an editorial article, a video or an email campaign — as well as the scientists involved.

So it was a chance to honor pioneering scientists like Dr. Frank Peacock, for his video about troponin and the science behind diagnosing a heart attack; Dr. Min Tang-Schomer for her insights into personalizing cancer therapy through the use of 3D bioengineered brains; Prof. Steve Hill and Dr. Laura Kilpatrick, who spoke on camera about a novel technique for the characterization of GPCR protein ligands; Dr. Raffaella Spina, who we interviewed about cancer recurrence in glioblastomas;   Dr. Timo Bernthaler, who shared his characterization work on energy storage, magnetic and 3D printed materials; and Prof. Patrick Gunning, for his video about research into developing small molecule inhibitors for targeting and treating cancer.

Dr. Peacock was thrilled to receive his award, saying: "This is a topic I've been working on a for a decade, the ability to get it out and have it recognised as a valuable and important educational tool was outstanding."

Nominate now for the 2019 awards!

As the dust settles on this year's fantastic celebration of shared success, SelectScience is already looking to the future. On November 26, nominations opened for next year's Scientists' Choice Awards for the best new lab products of 2018 across all categories.

SelectScience Editor Lois Manton O'Byrne said: "We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the scientists who have taken the trouble to nominate, vote for and review laboratory products and thus help their peers around the world make the best decisions to advance their vital work."