Welcome to SELECTBIO

SELECTBIO provides focused market reports, custom consultancy, recruitment, training courses and conferences to the life science marketplace. Specialising in early stage drug discovery and omics, we provide open forums for learning and networking, with the aim of fostering discussion and debate to advance disease research.

Conferences	Business Courses	Training Courses

Our specialist portfolio of global life science events provide attendees with a rich learning and networking environment where they can share and discuss the latest developments in their field. Ideal for professionals working in industry and academic settings within life science.	SELECTBIO business courses provide attendees with an up-to-date analysis of the life sciences, diagnostics and pharma-discovery space. Ideal for people involved in business planning processes and for those wishing to research and understand new market opportunities.	Keep up to date with emerging research techniques, technology developments and regulatory changes by attending one of our short courses or workshops.

Customer Testimonials

"I thought the Hamburg ELA event was a huge success and had similar feedback from a number of colleagues."	"Excellent focus to the meeting, many informative and useful presentations. Lots of networking opportunities"	"It was an interesting program with high qualified speakers and a good organization team."
European Lab Automation	Stem Cells	Genomics Research Europe
Dr. Till T. Bachmann, University of Edinburgh	Scottish Enterprise	Ronald van Eijk, Laboratory Researcher, Leiden University Medical Center

Conference News

Trends at the forefront of liquid handling and lab automation
This week we caught up with Joe Liscouski, Executive Director at the Institute for Laboratory Automation (ILA) in MA, USA, to find out more about how the use of liquid handling has evolved over the last decade and to gain some insight into what we can expect next.

Post Event Lab Tour
On November 14th there will be a post event lab tour, free for Lab-on-a-Chip Asia conference attendees. This will include visits to Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Nanyang Technological University, and National University of Singapore.

Harnessing the Great Promise of Microfluidics - an interview with Holger Becker
Dr Holger Becker, Chief Scientific Officer of microfluidic ChipShop GmbH, discusses the great potential of microfluidics in our latest blog entry – http://bit.ly/15HpwvN. Dr Becker will also be running a training course on ‘Microfluidics from the Concept to a Product: Technologies, Applications and Commercialisation Strategies’ at ELA on June 5th http://bit.ly/13ovJPE

New ELA Blog
In the run up to European Lab Automation 2013, we’ll be sharing some interesting news and insights around the event on our new blog - http://tinyurl.com/aafeu9f . We’d be delighted if you’d like to comment on some of our blog posts, adding your own thoughts and generally become a valued part of the conversation!

'Illuminating Cellular Pathways through Combining High Content Assays with the BDA Method'
Keynote talk to be delivered by Dr Hakim Djaballah, Director, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 'Illuminating Cellular Pathways through Combining High Content Assays with the BDA Method: Too Much Hay and Very Few Needles in Random RNAi Screening Stacks' at the DDA: High-content Screening & Cell Based Assays conference track at ELA. For the full agenda, please view: http://bit.ly/YSUu0P

Standards Make High-Content Screening Data More Powerful.....An Interview with Dr Stephan Schürer
Dr Stephan Schürer from the University of Miami speaks about the goals of the BioAssay Ontology Project to enable standardized description, integration and meta-analysis of assay and screening results - http://bit.ly/15HpwvN Dr Schürer will be discussing this topic in more detail at ELA 2013 as part of the Drug Discovery Automation track - http://bit.ly/16jbuPq