Diamond sponsor

Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ: IVGN) is a global company with revenues of $1.15 billion. We provide products and services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as academic and government research institutions. More than 4,300 employees work for Invitrogen and we conduct business in over 70 countries. We offer more than 25,000 unique products and services to support disease research, drug discovery and commercial bio-production.

The company’s areas of focus include Bioproduction, genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, cell culture, and cell biology, among others. Importantly, we continue to expand our capabilities by partnering with the brightest minds in the world on revolutionary diagnostic methods and therapeutic treatments.

Invitrogen’s product family includes many of the most widely recommended names in the industry, including Molecular Probes, BioReliance, Gibco, Cascade and Dynal Biotech. Our products can be found in nearly every major laboratory in the world. Many of the greatest medical discoveries of the last two decades were made using Invitrogen products, including the discovery of the AIDS virus, advancements in cancer treatment, and the development of tools to assist in stem cell research. Invitrogen’s Quest is to better the human condition through innovations in science and technology. Through our Passionate People Making a Difference program, we serve as good corporate citizens in the communities in which we live and work.

Silver sponsor

Quintiles is the global leader in pharmaceutical services, providing quality professional expertise, market intelligence and partnering solutions to meet the needs of the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industries.  Quintiles has over 18,000 employees and offices in 54 countries. 

Quintiles East Asia was established in 1995 and enjoys unparalleled geographic reach, with established operations in 12 AsiaPacific nations. Offering the full spectrum of clinical development services, including clinical research, laboratory services, regulatory affairs and consulting, the Quintiles clinical team (over 1500 personnel) in Asia Pacific has completed over 900 clinical trials involving about 5,500 sites and over 195,000 patients.

Luncheon sponsor

Founded in 1989, Miltenyi Biotec is currently a world market leader in magnetic cell separation. Our proprietary MACS® Technology has established the gold standard in cell separation technology.

We offer comprehensive systems for biomedical research; we develop, manufacture and sell products and services for cell separation, cell analysis, cell culture, cellular therapy, and molecular biology.

Miltenyi Biotec has successfully translated bench top research into clinically applicable therapies in the fields of organ regeneration, immune modulation and transplantation. The CliniMACS® Instrument is an automated cell selection system based on the MACS® Technology. We are currently supporting more than 35 cell therapy clinical trials for a wide variety of applications.

In our continuous pursuit for innovation, Miltenyi Biotec collaborates with many prominent academic researchers and companies worldwide to advance emerging fields of life science research and development

 Networking sponsor

SAFC is the custom manufacturing and services group within the Sigma-Aldrich group. SAFC offers a ‘total supply chain partner capability’ with manufacturing facilities around the world to produce custom manufactured materials including precision-weight packaging and multiple packaging types. SAFC, with several business segments, provides world-class chemistry and biochemistry support for all levels of our customer’s development processes.

SAFC Biosciences is the world’s leading supplier of critical raw materials and specialized cell culture reagents to producers of marketed biological products. With multiple cGMP facilities it has unique offers for those involved with industrial-scale biopharmaceutical research, process development, materials management, quality assurance and manufacturing. SAFC Supply Solutions(R) manufactures nearly half its 100,000 raw materials and is considered an industry leader in providing customers with compliance expert advise on ever-changing regulatory requirements. Comprehensive product line covers pharmaceutical raw materials, flavors & fragrances ingredients, kit components for diagnostics manufacturers and raw materials for DNA and RNA oligonucleotide synthesis.