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Help Decide the Best New Clinical Laboratory Product of 2017 in the Scientists' Choice Awards: Nominations Now Open

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Which new product, instrument or consumable has made the most difference to your clinical lab or point-of-care practice? Nominate now for a chance to win a $500/£400/450€ Amazon voucher

4 May 2018
Bede MacGowan
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Scientists across the world are being urged to help decide the Best New Clinical Laboratory Product of 2017 in the annual Scientists’ Choice Awards®.

Each year, clinical laboratory scientists and healthcare professionals in all corners of the globe play their parts in recognizing and celebrating the industry’s most effective new technologies by nominating the new product, instrument or consumable that has made the most difference to their work over the past year. Now in their 11th year, these coveted awards, run by SelectScience, celebrate the very best in the industry and have gone from strength to strength, attracting more votes and nominations than ever before.

Nominated products must have been new to the market, or have received CE Marking or FDA approval, in 2017. All nominations and votes will be entered into a prize drawing for the chance to win a $500/£400/450€ Amazon voucher. Make sure to nominate your favorite product before nominations close on June 18, 2018.

Nominations will be shortlisted and scientists will be invited for final voting from June 25, 2018. The winner of the Scientists' Choice Award for the Best New Clinical Laboratory Product of 2017 will be announced at a special party during the 2018 AACC Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo in Chicago, USA, July 29 - August 2, 2018.

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Previous winners of the Scientists’ Choice Award® for Best New Clinical Laboratory Product of the Year include Agilent Technologies' IQFISH Panel for Lung Cancer, the Alere™ i Strep A by Alere Inc., the Access Immunoassay System Test Menu by Beckman Coulter and the MiSeqDx System by Illumina. You can view the full list of previous Scientists’ Choice Awards® winners here.

About The Scientists’ Choice Awards®

SelectScience, the leading independent online resource for the global scientific community, began the Scientists’ Choice Awards in 2007 to enable scientists to voice their opinions on the best laboratory products. Once a year, SelectScience invites members to nominate their favorite products of the year in each category.

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