The Innovation Awards showcase the most remarkable know-how and novelties of the exhibitors.
The future of the Laboratory is at the heart of the show with an Innovation Tour that allows you to discover all the new products presented and an Innovation Space that highlights the winners and nominees for the Innovation Awards.
The 2023 winners
Challenges :
Target users: Managers, researchers, technicians. The target markets are scientific laboratories in general and analytical science laboratories in particular.
Climate issues are now impossible to ignore. Today, it is common practice to monitor water and energy consumption at home in order to consume as little as possible (for financial reasons and/or to save money). However, this is less obvious in laboratories, and monitoring tools specific to the uses of analytical chemistry were non-existent. This is the raison d'être of Consolab, a tool enabling laboratories to monitor and reduce their contribution to climate change through their consumption and activities.
Consolab is a web application that can now be used to:
-Track the laboratory's electricity consumption by instrument/station and convert this data into kgCO2eq
-Track water consumption and convert this data into kgCO2eq
- Set consumption targets and customise laboratory trajectories
Detailed graphs are generated automatically to monitor consumption and identify the items that consume the most so that an action plan can be put in place to reduce the laboratory's GHG emissions.
These data (values or graphs) can be exported to enable laboratories to track their commitments and efforts to comply with the increasing requirements of legislation in terms of reducing GHG emissions.
Consolab is one of the tools provided by LABO DURABLE, which is heavily involved in the development of metrics for scientifically measuring the environmental impact of laboratory activities and then proposing reliable solutions for reducing it...
During the deliberations .... Among the applications received, it is clear that exhibitors at Forum LABO PARIS 2023 are investing primarily in the development of products to meet the major challenges facing our society. These include the life sciences, particularly health, with the emergence of new therapies and the consequent need for new products. It is therefore essential to have more efficient technologies and to automate processes in order to reduce production times and costs and improve product quality.
Of course, the emergence of climate change is also at the heart of exhibitors' concerns, and many projects include the notion of sustainability and environmental impact in their development. Finally, digitalisation is omnipresent, enabling many tasks to be improved and automated, whether for product storage, production or control.
There are also interesting developments in artificial intelligence, and there is no doubt that this discipline will gain in importance in all areas in the years to come.
Challenges: Technological performance
Target users: Academic research and health and cosmetics laboratories working with 3D cell cultures.
The Multi-MagPen enables quick and easy transfer and collection of magnetised cell cultures. The system is compatible with 24- or 96-well systems. Magnetised cells are transferred by a simple pipetting-free collection and dispensing step. The Multi-MagPen can also be used to create and organise co-cultures of different cell types.
Challenges: Technological performance
Target users : Academic research and R&D laboratories working in the field of molecular and cellular biology.
Bright-Dtech enables the sensitivity of fluorescence detection measured in molecular and cellular biology to be greatly improved. To achieve this, the technology uses very bright and stable lanthanide nanoparticles. They can be used for a wide range of applications, including ELISA tests, cell imaging, flow cytometry and Western blotting.
Challenges: Sustainable development
Target users : Academic research and R&D laboratories working in the field of biomolecules.
Magnetic beads contain specific antibodies for protein immunoprecipitation prior to analysis by mass spectrometry, for example. This procedure has been successfully developed for over 30 years. However, these new beads contain no plastic and use more environmentally-friendly reagents that comply with the 12 principles of green chemistry.
Challenges: Laboratory layout, Digitalisation, Security
Target users: Academic research and all industrial laboratories needing to store products.
Series of fireproof safety cabinets with connected shelves for storing laboratory products. The cabinets are equipped with NFC technology, enabling the status of stocks to be checked at any time, for an automated inventory that can be managed remotely. The cabinets also ensure maximum user security.
Challenges: Technological performance
Target users: Academic research and R&D laboratories working in the field of health and cosmetics.
This system enables rapid dissociation and digestion of solid tissues of animal or human origin into a suspension of viable single cells, enabling the content of the initial sample to be preserved. These suspensions can then be frozen for a wide range of applications, including omics, sequencing and flow cytometry.
Challenges: Technological performance
Target users: Academic research and research and development laboratories working in the field in the health, agri-food and cosmetics sectors.
This benchtop product can be used for cryogenics under pressure to preserve cell lines or strains of micro-organisms. It can be combined with a freeze-drying operation to obtain dry formulations of cell cultures.
Challenges: Technological performance
Target users: Academic research and research and development laboratories working in the field in the field of chemistry, metallurgy, petrochemistry, etc.
AIWizard uses artificial intelligence to interpret the results obtained by DSC. Analysing DSC measurement curves in a laboratory is often time-consuming and error-prone. This system, equipped with a trained neural network, is capable of processing the curves autonomously and adapting and improving its performance according to the materials tested.
Challenges: Laboratory layout, Technological performance, Digitisation
Target users: Academic research and all industrial laboratories needing to store liquid and solid chemicals.
Centiloc has developed a sensor for automatic inventory of chemicals stored on shelves in laboratories. The identification and location of compounds enables constant monitoring of stock levels, and liquid levels can be measured without the use of scales. The system is fully automated.
Challenges: Digitalisation
Target users: Academic research and research laboratories working in the healthcare field.
GoSilico is a software package for optimising liquid chromatography purification processes. Simulations are based on preliminary experiments, enabling the software to generate numerous options and to choose the best solution quickly and cost-effectively. In addition, it increases the knowledge of the process and its robustness.
Challenges: Technological performance
Target users: Academic research and laboratories using GC/MS.
The ecTOF is a high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer that simultaneously ionises molecules separated by gas chromatography using two modes: chemical ionisation and electron impact. The two chromatograms obtained in parallel provide complementary information for more precise identification of the compounds analysed.
Challenges: Technological performance, Digitalisation
Target users: Academic research and laboratories working in the health field.
The IMScope QT combines optical microscope imaging and high-resolution mass spectrometry. It provides qualitative and quantitative information when coupled with LC-MS, as well as morphological images by identifying and visualising the distribution of molecules.
Challenges: Technological performance, Digitalisation
Target users: Academic research and all laboratories working in the field of life sciences.
The Axiovert 5 Digital is a microscope with artificial intelligence software for automatic analysis of cell number and confluence. It is compatible with a multi-user environment.
Issues: Laboratory layout, Safety
Target users : Academic research and all laboratories working in the field of life sciences.
NEB Lyo Sciences supplies lyophilised molecular biology reagents used in research and in vitro diagnostics. Custom solutions can also be manufactured. Freeze-dried products eliminate the need for refrigerated storage and the cold chain. For staff, operations are simpler and safer.
Challenges: Laboratory layout, Digitalisation
Target users : Academic research and all types of laboratories.
Labelians has created a smartphone-compatible application for planning laboratory layouts using augmented virtual reality. This application will quickly provide the user with important information about the layout of the laboratory and the choice of equipment in relation to the laboratory environment.
Challenges: Technological performance, digitalisation, sustainable development
Target users: Biopharmaceutical developers.
Gensor is developing a system comprising 4 modules enabling the production of biopharmaceuticals in the upstream phase to be monitored automatically and online. With the rapid development of innovative therapies (cell therapy) and new biomedicines (monoclonal antibodies, proteins, oligonucleotides, vaccines, etc.) using complex biotechnology processes, it is necessary to monitor cell production in real time and thus ensure quality and reproducibility. Two of the product's four modules are currently being industrialised, and proof of concept has been established for the cell concentration module.
Challenges: Digitalisation
Target users: Academics and R&D research managers.
Arrandi is developing a SaaS platform to help write research projects. This artificial intelligence tool will provide information on potential funding for research projects. In addition, the software will offer assistance in drafting projects based on automatic language processing and datavisualisation. To this end, a database has been created containing a large number of calls for projects from the Horizon Europe programme and the ANR. This tool is a decision-making aid for any laboratory manager needing to find funding for research programmes.
Challenges: Technical performance, Sustainable development
Target users: Managers of aquatic environments and environmental analysis laboratories.
A passive sampler (LOD-GT) has been developed to collect, over a defined period (1 to 4 weeks), the average concentration of micropollutants in surface water or industrial water. This procedure overcomes the wide variations in micropollutant concentrations in water observed during spot sampling. In addition, the passive sampler, consisting of an adsorbent phase, concentrates the micropollutants and therefore improves the sensitivity of the measurement.
A panel of 11 users from the public and private sectors. The role of the jury is to assess the potential of the innovations in relation to the real and concrete needs of the market. To this end, the jury assesses each innovation using a pre-defined grid and criteria.
The awards ceremony will take place during the Gala Evening on Tuesday 28 March at the show.
Programme of pre-programmed LAB'INNOVATION meetings with Innovation Awards nominees and Lab'Start-up exhibitors.
