Life Science Company and Industry News Briefs

In just five weeks, we will be hosting our 31st Semiannual UCLA show, where we are expecting 550-650 life science professionals who are interested in finding new products, technologies, and services to bring to their labs.

Based on Exhibitor Surveys collected from the 2012 UCLA event, we saw that on average exhibitors had 69 active researchers visit their booth. Of these 69 researchers, exhibitors reported that they yielded an average of 14 excellent leads. Participating Exhibitors had an average product value of $7,000 per unit.

This Los Angeles event attracted scientists and researchers from multiple departments and buildings around the University of California, Los Angeles Campus. A total of 69 on campus departments participated in the event, the top 6 most represented at the event were:       

• Chemistry & Biochemistry Department with 69 participants    
• Medicine Department with 52 participants
• Pathology & Lab Medicine Department with 50 participants
• Microbio, Immun & Mol Genetics Department with 36 participants
• Biological Chemistry Department with 31 participants
• Neurology Department with 30 participants

Here are some recent Los Angeles area articles you may be interested in:

• UCLA Research Team Unveils Wide-Field Optical Microscope on a Cell Phone

• $25M Crowdsourcing Challenge + $50M in Research Grants for Pet Pill

• Greener Lab Solutions Available at UCLA and Across the Nation

• Los Angeles Life Science Event Reminder 

 (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and legge_e_mare)