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Confirmed Sponsors
Updated: July 17, 2008 | Executive Sponsor |  | Invitrogen develops technologies for life science research, drug development, and commercial bioproduction. We strive to accelerate biological understanding through technologies and services that include leading industry names such as GIBCO, Molecular Probes, Dynal, Quantum Dot, BioReliance and Zymed. Our product and service portfolio spans the breadth of drug discovery and development applications, as well as emerging areas such as diagnostics, nanotechnology and regenerative medicine. | | | Corporate Sponsor |  | Cellumen is the innovator in cellular systems biology solutions (CSB™) providing accurate drug efficacy and safety predictions, thus reducing failure rates and costs. Through CSB™, Cellumen is the only company addressing the full complexity of disease, illuminating optimal decisions from discovery labs to the clinic. Cellumen's patented CSB™ methodology uses living cells as disease or toxicity surrogates. At least 10 functional biomarkers are used as sentinels to analyze disease function and toxicity of new drugs. | | | Associate Sponsors |  | Promega is a world leader in developing bioluminescent technologies that deliver more biologically relevant data in drug screening and basic research applications. Promega offers customizable solutions for GPCRs, nuclear receptors, cell viability, cytotoxicity & apoptosis, proteases, kinases, ADME assays for P450s, MAO & Pgp, and cellular imaging, which are easily adapted to small volume screening applications on a variety of instrument platforms. See a Promega representative during ACT 2008 to learn how these products can benefit your research. |  | Sophion Bioscience, a leader in the automated patch clamp field, helps drug discovery companies to make more and better drugs, faster. Sophion's sole focus is to provide advanced products and integrated solutions for automated patch clamping. Sophion's QPatch 16 and QPatch HT (48-channels) provide high-quality patch clamp data on a truly industrial basis. Only the QPatch has an integrated cell preparation and QPlate exchange facilities enabling several hours of unattended operation. The unique microfluidic flow channel system implemented in the QPlates enables fast liquid exchange around each cell and provides the option to test multiple compounds or increasing concentrations on the same cell. | | | Technology Workshop Sponsors |   | Roche Applied Science is a market-leading manufacturer and supplier of technologies for life science research, including the xCELLigence System for dynamic real-time, label-free cellular analysis. | | | | | Scientific Support Sponsor |  | | | Cocktail Reception Sponsor | | | | Padfolio Sponsor | | | | Hospitality Suite Sponsor | | | | Totebag Sponsor | |
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