New Webcast – High Throughput Assay Optimization For Drug Discovery

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

August 27, 2010: IDEX Health & Science announces a new webcast for High Throughput Assay Optimization. Listen to Kevin Barrett, IDEX Health & Science's Director of Business Development for Innovadyne Precision Dispensing Systems and Dr. Jonathan Wingfield, Team Leader for the Cancer Department at AstraZeneca, UK, discuss exciting advances in workflow optimization, sample miniaturization and assay cost reduction. This webcast would be of interest to Lab Managers, Bio-chemists and Technicians involved in drug discovery or high throughput applications such as Bead Dispensing, Cell Dispensing, HTS/Assay Development, MALDI Plate Spotting, PCR or Protein Crystallography.

This archived webcast discusses:

• Achieving throughput requirements while balancing initial investment.
• Reducing routine running cost when developing and optimizing assays.
• State-of-the-art liquid handling technologies.
• Critical system performance requirements.
• Rapid, non-contact dispensing methodology for optimized workflows.
• AstraZeneca’s approach to solving their assay optimization challenges.

IDEX Health & Science LLC designs, develops, and manufactures liquid subassemblies and precision components for a wide range of applications requiring precise control and measurement. We specialize in component integration that results in innovative and optimized OEM fluidic systems. IDEX Health & Science is the synthesis of leading component and technology suppliers to the Analytical Instrument, In Vitro Diagnostics, Biotechnology, and Laboratory markets. Our brands include Eastern Plastics, Innovadyne, Ismatec, Isolation Technologies, Rheodyne, Sapphire Engineering, Systec, and Upchurch Scientific. For more information, visit www.idex-hs.com/about/library/webcast_assay_opt_form.aspx

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Contact:
Rachel Jones
Tel: +1 360 253 2008
E-mail: rajones@idexcorp.com