Vote for the Best New Clinical Products in the 2021 Scientists’ Choice Awards

For a chance to win a $500/£400/450€ Amazon Gift Card, cast your vote for the new products which have made the most difference to clinical diagnostics

13 May 2021
Edward Carter
Publishing / Media

Editorial article

Clinical scientists and healthcare professionals around the world are casting their votes for the Best New Clinical Products of 2020 in the Scientists’ Choice Awards®.

The annual Scientists' Choice Awards celebrate the industry’s top technological innovations and give scientists and healthcare professionals the chance to recognize the instruments, assays, consumables and services which have made the biggest impact to their work. We had a fantastic response to our call for nominations and now it’s time to cast your vote in our clinical categories.

The winning products in each of the following categories, which will be announced in June at the SelectScience® Virtual Clinical Science Summit, will be recognized as having significantly advanced clinical laboratory efforts in the past year. As a thank you for your time and insight, all participants who vote will be entered into a drawing for the chance to win a $500/£400/450€ Amazon Gift Card.

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Nominees for Best New Clinical Instrumentation of 2020 are:

Nominees for Best New Clinical Assay of 2020 are:

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Voting closes on June 13, 2021. The winner will be announced during the SelectScience Virtual Clinical Science Summit, commencing on June 22, 2021.

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 and vote for their favorite products of the year in each category. See the Scientists' Choice Awards website for details.

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