Life Science Industry Awards 2007

Life Science Industry Awards 2007 Saluting the winners: Customization, value, and customer service is the name of the game. By Andrea Gawrylewski, Bob Grant, and Manasee Wagh Although biomedical companies in search of new drugs often seem to grab all the headlines, anyone working in bioscience research and drug development knows that none of their advances would be possible without the life science industry that creates the rea

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Saluting the winners: Customization, value, and customer service is the name of the game.
By Andrea Gawrylewski, Bob Grant, and Manasee Wagh

Although biomedical companies in search of new drugs often seem to grab all the headlines, anyone working in bioscience research and drug development knows that none of their advances would be possible without the life science industry that creates the reagents, hardware, and solutions they use every day.

That industry - which The Scientist is proud to celebrate with the 2007 Life Sciences Industry Awards - is highly innovative, operating at the leading edge of technology. At the same time, it is intensely customer-focused, as it must be in a field that often requires customized equipment and technology, rather than off-the-shelf products.

This year, in the fifth Life Sciences Industry Awards, customization and integration of equipment separated the good from the great. Those trends, of course, require value ...

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Andrea Gawrylewski
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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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