Shortlist for 2011 Bionow Awards

Bionow is delighted to announce the shortlisted companies, projects and individuals for the 2011 Bionow Annual Awards. The winners in each category will be announced at the Bionow Annual Awards Dinner which is due to take place on 24th November 2011 at The Mere Golf and Country Club. The awards dinner is attended by over 200 executives from the biomedical industry across the region and is the highlight of the biomedical calendar.

The judging panel consisted of representatives from each of the award sponsors and considered over 60 applications. The panel was chaired by Dr John Stageman, Chair of Bionow Ltd along with Paul Weinberg of Kaplan EduNeering, Graham Bond of Baker Tilly, Phil Sizer of Novartis, Simon Wallwork of Semple Fraser, Keith Richardson of Waters and Richard Deed of TrusTECH.

Bionow chief executive, Geoff Davison, said: “It has been a fantastic year for entries and we would like to congratulate all of those shortlisted and thank everyone for their applications. The quality and number of entries we received is testament to the flourishing biomedical sector in the north of the country and we are proud to be celebrating its successful companies, individuals and researchers.”

Companies, projects and individuals shortlisted are:

Company of the Year – Sponsored by AstraZeneca
- Advanced Medical Solutions
- Qiagen
- Sky Medical Technology

Biomedical Product or Service of the Year – Sponsored by Kaplan
- Clinisafe, Clinisafe
- Phagenesis, EPS1 System
- Sky Medical Technology, Geko

Startup of the Year – Sponsored by Baker Tilly
- Autology
- Redx Pharma
- Research Nurses.co

Promising Biomedical Technologist of the Year – Sponsored by Novartis
- Nick Bryan, Autology Health Ltd
- Neil Dixon, University of Manchester
- Jonathan Souquet, Eden Biodesign

Biomedical Project of the Year – Sponsored by Semple Fraser
- Advanced Biomedical Ltd, Detection of clostridium spores on surfaces to reduce hospital acquired infections
- Morow Ltd, MoRow
- Myconostica Ltd, MycAssay series of real-time PCR products

Emerging Biomedical Technology Project of the Year – Sponsored by Waters
- Conformetrix Ltd, Conformetrix
- Epistem, Immunohistochemistry based oncology biomarker assay using plucked human scalp hairs
- Susan Higham, University of Liverpool, QLF Online

Healthcare Project of the Year – Sponsored by TRUSTECH
- Microvisk Technologies, Evaluation of a new point of care coagulation monitor
- Nanopool, NP Liquid Glass usage in the healthcare environment and on medical equipment
- Paul Malone, University of Manchester, A simple, effective new device to improve patient outcomes when imaging the upper limb

About Bionow:

Winners of the 2010 Bionow awards can be found here.

Bionow is a not-for-profit membership organisation for the biomedical / life-sciences industry in the north of England. Bionow offers a range of specialist business support products and services such as events, training, recruitment and other services which are detailed within this document. All are aimed at enabling the potential of biomedical businesses and making them more competitive.

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