The Northern Ireland Biomedical Engineering Society (NIBES), which was constituted in 1979, was founded in order to provide a forum for communication between all those interested in biomedical engineering. Since its establishment the society has been involved in building up a strong biomedical engineering community within Northern Ireland. Currently NIBES has an active membership from a variety of backgrounds including, academia, industry, government and clinically related professions and currently promotes diverse interests in a range of areas, including: • Medical Imaging • Cardiovascular devices • Biomaterials • Rehabilitation • Orthopedics • Medical Informatics • Modelling/Virtual Engineering • Dental • Cell/Molecular Biology
The key aims of NIBES are • To promote biomedical engineering • To provide a forum for communication between all those interested in biomedical engineering • To encourage collaborations within the biomedical engineering community (locally, nationally and internationally) • To promote the teaching of biomedical engineering to undergraduate and postgraduate students • To provide meetings to encourage the dissemination of information and education in matters related to biomedical engineering.
The Innovation Centre
Northern Ireland Science Park
Queen's Road
Queen's Island
Belfast BT3 9DT
Tel: +44 (0) 28 9073 7949 / 47
Fax: +44 (0) 28 9073 7951
Email: info@biobusinessni.org
BioBusiness is the business association for the Life and Health Technology sector in Ireland.
The core objectives for the association are to: * Provide and advocacy role for the industry and through leadership represent and lobby for its members to government ministers, government departments and agencies, and regulatory bodies. * Provide knowledge exchange events for mutual learning, networking and dissemination of best practice. * Provide business and sector support to enhance the competitiveness of all organisations. *
To create opportunities for business to increase trade and collaborate on research and business opportunities. BioBusiness delivers on these objectives utilising the following programmes, working groups and networks: * ABC Collaborations * ABC Ireland * Medical Devices in Connected Health * Medilink UK * Health Technologies KTN * Enterprise Europe NI
Regionally BioBusiness has formed strategic partnerships with the Universities, Colleges and "HPSS Innovations" for the commercialisation of academic and clinical research.
Customer Care UK
Telephone : 0800-89 60 46
FAX : 0800-89 17 14
E-mail:
cc.uk@perkinelmer.com
At PerkinElmer, we design, manufacture and deliver advanced technology solutions that address the world's most critical health and safety concerns, including maternal and fetal health, clean water and air, and safe food and toys. Our expertise combines science, innovation and a culture of operational excellence to offer our customers technology services and support that improve the quality of people's lives worldwide.
Nikon Metrology UK Ltd (Derby)
Nottingham EMA
Argosy Road
Castle Donington
DE74 2SA
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 1332 811 349
Fax: +44 1332 639881
E-mail: sales_uk@nikonmetrology.com
Nikon Metrology offers a complete range of metrology solutions including Coordinate Measuring Machines(CMMs), Optical CMMs, 3D laser scanners, handheld laser line probes, X-ray and Computed Tomography (CT), Optical CNC measuring systems, measuring microscopes, Laser Radar, iGPS /iSpace systems, and metrology software for 3D scanning, 3D digitizing, 3D inspection and reverse engineering. Our systems are employed in aerospace, automotive and other manufacturing industries.
Stafford House
Boundary Way
Hemel Hempstead HP2 7GE
Tel: +44 (0)1442 233 555
Fax: +44(0)1442 233 667
E-mail: darren.roberts@thermofisher.com
Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, enabling you to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With annual sales of more than $11 billion and 34,000 staff, we serve over 350,000 customers worldwide within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as environmental and industrial process control settings. With two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, we help solve analytical challenges from routine testing to complex research and discovery. Thermo Scientific offers customers a complete range of high-end analytical instruments as well as laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents to enable integrated laboratory workflow solutions.
In the Area of molecular spectroscopy, we are proud to offer the finest and most complete line of spectroscopic instrumentation available—backed by superb technical service driven by dedication to customer satisfaction. You will find the Thermo Scientific brand on products for fluorometry, FT-IR and Infrared Microsampling, FT-NIR, Raman and Visible & UV-Vis. We are the acknowledged experts in each of these techniques. Our instruments are reliable, accurate and easy to use.
Exhibit:
FTIR spectrometer available for demonstration
Prof. Brian J. Meenan
Dr. Shirley Davey MATCH Project
School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics
St Johns Building,
Room SJ012
Brunel University
Kingston Lane
Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 (0) 1895 266051
Fax: +44 (0) 1895 269727
E-mail: match@brunel.ac.uk
The Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare (MATCH) is a well-established research collaboration between four leading UK universities (Birmingham, Brunel, Nottingham & Ulster) and a cohort of industrial partners, also supported by stakeholders from the NHS and other public sector organisations. MATCH, funded since 2003 by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and partner subscriptions, provides a critical research mass in the field of health technology assessment (HTA) in its widest sense, bringing together expertise in health economics, engineering and social sciences.
Through the translation of its research MATCH supports both companies across the UK healthcare technology sector and user communities, delivering methods and tools to assess the value of medical devices from concept through to mature product. MATCH aims to transform the medical device sector through improved decision-making, so that companies bring better products to market more quickly and less expensively, whilst healthcare providers are able to adopt products with confidence more rapidly. By engaging with UK advisory bodies.
MATCH is also influencing policy, and, through its work with procurement organisations, has provided the NHS with better methods for buying technology. The focus is on making good decisions early in product development and improving processes for adoption of innovations. In support of this, over the past seven years MATCH has researched evidence-gathering strategies, early-stage health economics, methods for eliciting the needs of users, the link between clinical demand and business process, and investment decisions.
Vector Scientific was established as a laboratory distribution company in Belfast in April 1990. The main customer base at this time was the hospital clinical laboratory market. Over the next five years the company grew and expanded into university and government laboratories with a more varied selection of products for their customers.
In 1995 Vector Scientific was acquired by United Drug PLC along with Novapath, a scientific company based in Dublin. These acquisitions meant that United Drug could significantly expand their business in the medical and scientific equipment sector in both the north and south of Ireland. Following this acquisition Vector Scientific moved to premises on the Ravenhill Road in Belfast to join Ulster Anaesthetics Limited, another United Drug company.
In 1999, due to continued growth, both companies moved to a new purpose built facility based in Moneyreagh on the outskirts of Belfast. The 20,000 sq.ft. office and warehouse building provided the scope for further expansion of the company. Later in the same year Primacare Services was acquired by United Drug and joined Vector Scientific and Ulster Anaesthetics in their new facilities.
Vector Scientific is today the largest independent supplier to the NHS laboratory market. They supply a wide range of quality products to the NHS, university, government and industrial laboratories, representing a wide range of global manufacturers.
Particular Sciences Ltd, 2 Birch House
Rosemount Business Park, Ballycoolin Road,
Dublin 11, Ireland
Tel.: (+353) 01 8205395
(+353) 01 8228813
E-mail: info@particular.ie
Particular Sciences was founded by Sean Quilty in 1989 to provide technical support in material characterisation for chemists, biologists, researchers and industrialists in Ireland. This was a niche business to fill a gap in the scientific infrastructure inside Ireland. We started with a very small customer base. The company has steadily grown with the market in Ireland (the famous Celtic tiger) and also grew with its principals. We now service over 200 companies in pharmachem, minerals, food, pigments and increasingly in research with nanotechnology and biotech at the top of the list. And we represent a group of specialist companies, leaders in their technologies.
Particular Sciences has been appointed the new distributor for Qsense, the leading manufacturer of acoustic resonance instruments to study molecular binding on surfaces. Full details will be posted shortly under Biolin Scientific in the Manufacturers pages.
Burlington House
Piccadilly
London W1J 0BA
Tel: +44 (0)20 7437 8656
Fax: +44 (0)20 7437 8883
Thomas Graham House (290)
Science Park
Milton Road
Cambridge CB4 0WF
Tel: +44 (0)1223 420066
Fax: +44 (0)1223 423623
The Royal Society of Chemistry is the largest organisation in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences. Supported by a worldwide network of members and an international publishing business, our activities span education, conferences, science policy and the promotion of chemistry to the public.
The RSC's headquarters are in London. The communication and media relations teams are based here, together with the Chief Executive's office. The RSC's Library and our new venue The Chemistry Centre are here.
The Cambridge office is home to RSC Publishing and staff who deal with public activities, membership subscriptions, education, science, industry applications, qualifications, recruitment and regional activities.
We have been distributors of specialist techniques for scientific and medical research for 30 years. We offer label-free biosensing techniques and electrochemistry instrumentation, including: • Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) from Reichert • Optical Waveguide Lightmode Spectroscopy (OWLS) from Microvacuum • Resonance Enhanced Surface Impedance (RESI) from Layerlab • Cell Based Assay Instruments from Bionas • Potentiostats, E-chem Software from Gamry
Unit 7223
Cambridge Research Park
Waterbeach, Cambridge CB25 9TL UK
Tel.: +44 1223 815645
Fax: +44 1223 815662
E-mail: rob.field@jpk.com
JPK Instruments is a world-leading manufacturer of nano-analytic instruments - particularly atomic force microscope systems (NanoWizard 3, CellHesion, ForceRobot) and optical tweezers (NanoTracker) - for a broad range of applications reaching from soft matter physics to nano-optics, from surface chemistry to cell & molecular biology. JPK was recognized as Germany’s fastest growing nanotechnology company in 2007 and 2008 (Deloitte). From its earliest days applying atomic force microscope (AFM) technology, JPK has recognized the opportunities provided by nanotechnology for transforming life sciences and soft matter research. This focus has driven JPK’s success in uniting the worlds of nanotechnology tools and life science applications by offering cutting-edge technology and unique applications expertise. Headquartered in Berlin and with direct operations in Dresden, Cambridge (UK) and Singapore, JPK maintains a global network of distributors and support centres and provides on the spot applications and service support to an ever-growing community of researchers.
