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The Tecan Award is designed to celebrate the innovation and ingenuity of our loyal
customers, bringing together some of the most impressive and imaginative uses for
our detection instruments.

We want to hear about your work, published or unpublished, and in return Tecan will publish your work, and invite you, together with a friend, to a romantic AND scientific stay in Salzburg.

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  How can I participate?

Sorry – you are too late.
Registration for the Tecan Award closed on October 31st, 2011.

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  Who will evaluate the content of my work?

Our highest priority is to evaluate your work in an objective way. Tecan product managers and application specialists are highly skilled professionals, with a university degree in the field of life sciences and years of experiences in the lab. We will therefore read and evaluate all your abstracts very carefully.

Tecan will also publish the reasons for the decisions made on the Tecan Homepage.
   


  How will Tecan reward your work?

The winner, together with a friend, will be invited to visit the beautiful and romantic city of Salzburg in Austria.

A prize-giving at Tecan Austria will give you a chance to see the fascinating world of Tecan detection instruments. You will also be interviewed about your winning entry for our well known and highly appreciated Tecan Journal, giving you an unrivalled opportunity to present your work all Tecan customers.

In addition, the second and third place winners each receive an iPad 2 (16 GB) for their great work and ideas using Tecan instruments.

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  Wall of fame

1st winner 2011:
Svenja Kristina Holle, University Hospital of Muenster, Germany

1st winner 2010:
Dr Francisco Quintana, Center for Neurologic Diseases

Please visit our blog to see the finalists in this year’s Tecan Award.
   


  Press

April 14, 2011
Tecan microarray solutions aid multiple sclerosis research

Dr Francisco Quintana

Männedorf, Switzerland, April 14, 2011 – Dr Francisco Quintana from the Center for Neurologic Diseases at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, is using Tecan microarray solutions as part of a systems biology approach to studying the immune response in multiple sclerosis. The laboratory has developed antigen and reverse phase protein microarrays for a wide range of studies, as Dr Quintana explained: “We construct microarrays using proteins, peptides or lipids of interest, and hybridize these with samples from either MS patients or animal models of disease using a HS 4800™ Pro hybridization station. The arrays are read with a PowerScanner™ and analyzed with the help of Tecan’s software to identify potential biomarkers for MS, elucidate mechanisms of pathogenesis and ascertain which signaling pathways are activated in response to therapeutic interventions.”

“Automation was a major consideration when assessing microarray instruments as, although we were already performing a majority of these studies manually, automation reduces the ‘noise’ inherent in manually processed experiments. This helps to improve the quality of results and simplify data interpretation. Coupling the HS Pro with the walkaway operation provided by the PowerScanner gives us the capacity we need, without causing an excessive drain on resources,”

To find out more on Tecan’s microarray solutions, visit
http://www.tecan.com/microarray


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Tecan Journal 02/2011, page 10-11
Tecan Journal 02/2011, page 24-25