Send us a text Got biomarkers? Correlia can help! Join Mike and 2020 Ignite Award Winner Akwasi Apori, CEO & President of Correlia Biosystems , as they discuss how assay automation through microfludics can help in every phase of drug development. We'll touch upon launching companies from academic labs, the pride of watching a beta prototype sputter to life, what it's like to be on the floor at SLAS, surrounded by scientists and potential customers, and generating collaborative part...
Jul 09, 2020•17 min•Ep. 33
Send us a text How do you find alien life on Earth? Can we automate all of chemistry and create a "Spotify" for synthesis? What should students be learning to adjust to the pandemic-influenced world? Join Mike and esteemed Prof. Lee Cronin to discuss all this...and maybe a little bit of Star Trek. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Jun 30, 2020•26 min•Ep. 32
Send us a text This one's a bit different - we're going to look at SLAS through the lens of someone helping to get start-ups off the ground in Europe. Severine Tamas-Lhoustou chats with Mike about her unique introduction to SLAS through the New Product Award, how new businesses are coping with COVID-19, and how she believes a strong scientific core is key to any successful venture. Allons-y! Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, German...
Jun 18, 2020•12 min•Ep. 31
Send us a text Have you ever had the literal "light-bulb goes off" moment? Ira Hoffman has! Join him and Mike for a fun, free-wheeling conversation traveling from Burlington to North Wales to Los Alamos, from H1N1 to SARS-CoV-2, and everywhere in between. Learn how to conduct a 10-point-view remote FAT. Can you pick a favorite moment from SLAS? Neither could we. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calenda...
Jun 16, 2020•19 min•Ep. 30
Send us a text How do you go from an idea in grad school to a start-up? What types of chances and connections do you need to make to get it working? Join Mike and 490 BioTech founder Dan Close as they discuss opportunities, "breaking" assays, and the cool blue light of success. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Jun 15, 2020•14 min•Ep. 29
Send us a text Ed Chow and Dean Ho are superstar SLAS leaders and volunteers. With their powers combined, they have deployed Identif.AI , an AI-powered platform to uncover non-obvious drug combinations to treat cancer, infectious diseases, and even to suggest new therapies against SARS-CoV-2 infection, mid-pandemic. Join us for an emotionally and intellectually intense journey through patient remissions, systems biology, and learning about innovation as a contact sport. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLA...
Jun 01, 2020•36 min•Ep. 28
Send us a text Ola Engkvist works in cheminformatics at AstraZenca Gothenburg. Listen in as Ola and Mike discuss the origins of chemistry machine learning, how to develop broad scientific interests, and revel in the amazing exponential data growth over the past decade. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
May 26, 2020•15 min•Ep. 27
Send us a text Celebrating 10 Years with SLAS2022 Conference co-Chair, Dr. Yohann Potier. Join Mike and Yohann as they discuss DNA storage, miniaturization, the interconnected science community, and how two chemists find themselves loving life sciences in their later careers. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
May 20, 2020•7 min•Ep. 26
Send us a text How do you pivot an academic lab in a single evening? Can you teach DNA to search for antibacterial and antiviral molecules? Tune in for some DELicious science with Prof. Brian Paegel of UC-Irvine. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
May 11, 2020•18 min•Ep. 25
Send us a text How does remote lab work change during a pandemic? How can we facilitate open science while maintaining experimental rigor and reproducibility? How come chemists keep drifting into biology later in their careers? Join Matt Hall, Biology Group Lead at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) intramural program at the U.S. National Institutes of Health as he and Mike discuss how screening and assay biology can be used to improve the world and address unmet me...
May 04, 2020•23 min•Ep. 24
Send us a text Join Gregory Vladimer as he and Mike Tarselli discuss how his company, Allcyte, uses a combination of screening, image analysis, and deep learning models to deliver tailored therapies to cancer patients. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Apr 22, 2020•17 min•Ep. 23
Send us a text Congratulations to Ulri Nicole Lee of the University of Washington, this year's SLAS Graduate Education Fellowship Grant award winner. Lee is the fifth winner of the grant and will receive $100,000 over two years to expand her research on the development of a device to collect and store samples for downstream analysis which will help researchers gain a better understanding of environmental exposures on human health. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibi...
Apr 21, 2020•11 min•Ep. 22
Send us a text Thi Mui Pham of Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center - Utrecht (Utrecht, Netherlands) has been named the 2020 SLAS Visiting Graduate Researcher Program Grant recipient. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Apr 21, 2020•11 min•Ep. 21
Send us a text Long time SLAS member and volunteer, Richard M. Eglen PhD, shared his experience of the origins of SLAS and its growth over the last ten years to where we are now. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Apr 13, 2020•15 min•Ep. 20
Send us a text Innovation Award Winner Joseph de Rutte, University of California, Los Angeles is a Graduate Student Researcher in the Di Carlo Lab working on microparticle-based technologies for next generation diagnostics and therapeutics. He discusses how his research and presentation at SLAS2020 won him the SLAS Innovation Award. The most prestigious award of the conference, the SLAS Innovation Award, was given to Joseph De Rutte, M.S., (University of California Los Angeles, CA, USA) for his ...
Apr 12, 2020•18 min•Ep. 19
Send us a text Iscaffpharma CEO Per Setterberg shares how they are focusing on developing better treatments of aggressive cancers by providing 3D scaffolds mimicking human tumour environment as a platform for research and development. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Apr 11, 2020•8 min•Ep. 18
Send us a text The New Product Award is given to companies showcasing new products that are commercially available within 90 days pre- and post-conference. Products are evaluated by a judging panel who look at a variety of qualifications before and at the conference. Winning products are granted use of the New Product Award designation for a year and the award is promoted through SLAS. V&P Scientific, Inc. (San Diego, CA, USA) won for SpinVessel. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Confer...
Apr 10, 2020•4 min•Ep. 17
Send us a text The New Product Award is given to companies showcasing new products that are commercially available within 90 days pre- and post-conference. Products are evaluated by a judging panel who look at a variety of qualifications before and at the conference. Winning products are granted use of the New Product Award designation for a year and the award is promoted through SLAS. Bioelectronica (Reno, NV, USA) discuss its win with Hypercell. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conferenc...
Apr 09, 2020•5 min•Ep. 16
Send us a text Each year SLAS invites and encourages start-ups and emerging life sciences and technology companies to apply for an exhibition kiosk located within Innovation Ave NEW , a specially designated area within the Exhibition. In this podcast we talk with Synthace, one of the SLAS2020 Innovation Ave NEW companies about their experience. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Apr 08, 2020•4 min•Ep. 15
Send us a text The SLAS2020 Student Poster Competition Award winners were chosen out of more than 300 poster abstract submissions and were judged on various content and design themes. The SLAS Student Poster Award recognizes the innovative research by students, graduate students, post-doctoral associates and junior faculty (less than four years in first academic appointment) who are chosen to present a poster during the SLAS International Conference and Exhibition. This year’s winners are: Choon...
Apr 07, 2020•5 min•Ep. 14
Send us a text FIRST's mission is to inspire young people to be science and technology leaders by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering and technology skills that inspire innovation and foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership. Hear SLAS Scientific Director, Mike Tarselli talk with Alpha Knights Robotics Team 6695, from San Marcos High School in California. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 ...
Apr 06, 2020•5 min•Ep. 13
Send us a text How was SLAS2020? Are you curious what the chairs felt about the show? Take a few minutes to hear our SLAS2020 chairs, Melanie Leveridge, GSK (UK) and Andrew Napper, Evotec share their thoughts. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Apr 05, 2020•4 min•Ep. 12
Send us a text Martin Jones works in the Electron Microscopy Science Technology Platform at the Francis Crick Institute in London, developing new hardware and software for extracting meaning from ever more complex data sets. He and SLAS Scientific Director, Mike Tarselli, explore Extracting Meaning From Big Data in Volume Electron Microscopy. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Apr 04, 2020•22 min•Ep. 11
Send us a text Pierre Baillargeon discusses his adaptation and clever fixes to gaps seen in standard automation technology, especially in academic environments. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Apr 03, 2020•15 min•Ep. 10
Send us a text Sue Crimmin, Vice President Sample Management Technology, GlaxoSmithKline and Michelle Galante, Group Leader, Operations, Evotec discuss Sample Management as a Career, Not a Job. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Apr 02, 2020•26 min•Ep. 9
Send us a text Juan Caicedo is a Research Fellow at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where he investigates the use of deep learning to analyze microscopy images. In this podcast Juan, and Scientific Director, Mike Tarselli discuss how his "Data Bowl" is organized to help humans improve CellProfiler algorithms. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Apr 01, 2020•22 min•Ep. 8
Send us a text Oren Kraus co-founded Phenomic AI. In this podcast, Scientific Director, Mike Tarselli, discusses with Oren his work with Phenomic AI, research and progress with AI-empowered phenotypic screens, and so much more! Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events calendar...
Mar 31, 2020•18 min•Ep. 7
Send us a text The biggest award of the conference, the SLAS Innovation Award, was given to Christian Soitu, M.Eng. and Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Oxford for his scientific podium presentation, Microfluidic Chambers Using Fluid Walls for Cell Biology . The SLAS Innovation Award recognizes one exceptional and exceedingly innovative podium presentation during the conference. The winning presentation exceeds a benchmark or milestone in screening or the lead discovery process or demonstrat...
Mar 30, 2020•7 min•Ep. 6
Send us a text Andrew Alliance discussed their 2019 SLAS new Product Award win for Andrew+ and Pipette+. The New Product Award is given to companies showcasing a new product that is commercially available within 90 days pre- and/or post-conference. Winning products are granted use of the New Product Award designation for a year and are promoted through SLAS promotional channels. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the full events ...
Mar 29, 2020•6 min•Ep. 5
Send us a text NanoView Biosciences walks through their SLAS 2019 New Product Award Win for the ExoView® platform. The New Product Award is given to companies showcasing a new product that is commercially available within 90 days pre- and/or post-conference. Winning products are granted use of the New Product Award designation for a year and are promoted through SLAS promotional channels. Upcoming SLAS Events: SLAS Europe 2025 Conference and Exhibition 20-22 May 2025 Hamburg, Germany View the fu...
Mar 28, 2020•3 min•Ep. 4
