Finalists of the 2011 CPhI Innovation Awards Announced
UBM Live, a division of UBM Plc, announced the six finalists of the CPhI Innovation Awards. Now in their eighth year, the Awards will take place at the Messe Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany as part of CPhI Worldwide for pharmaceutical ingredients, and co-located events ICSE for contract and outsourced services and logistics, P-MEC for pharmaceutical technology and machinery and the new InnoPack show for pharmaceutical packaging needs. The six chosen finalists are:
- 3M Drug Delivery Systems for the Integrated Dose by Dose counter, designed to allow patients to track the number of doses they have remaining in their inhalers
- Acuros for its novel disposable device for the continuous delivery of small volume parenteral drugs, which uses an osmotic actuation and needs no power supply
- Gerresheimer for its high performance plastic vial for parenteral products, made from cyclic olefin polymer and polyamide using multilayer technology
- Glycotope for the GlycoExpress platform technology designed to optimise the glycosylation of antibodies and other glycosylated therapeutics
- Johnson Matthey Catalysts for its Colour-Tag-Protein technology that is used as a direct marker for protein expression, speeding up the development of new bioprocesses
- PANATecs for the P-Check technique, based on fluorescence resonance energy transfer technology, that detects whether materials contain protease contamination.
The CPhI Innovation Awards were established to recognise, celebrate and honour those companies and organisations that are breaking new ground in the pharmaceutical, contract services, packaging and biopharmaceutical. Entry categories are open to all exhibitors at the events and were expanded to reflect the zoned layout of the 2011 events. Submissions were accepted from the following areas: APIs, Custom Manufacturing, Intermediates, Excipients/Formulation, Fine Chemicals, Finished Dosage, Contract Services, Drug Delivery Systems and Biopharmaceuticals. When choosing the finalists, the judges looked for the innovations that encouraged the imagination and are commercially practical.
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