Platinum sponsor

BD

BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world and is advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. The company develops innovative technology, services and solutions that help advance both clinical therapy for patients and clinical process for health care providers. BD and its 65,000 employees have a passion and commitment to help improve patient outcomes, improve the safety and efficiency of clinicians’ care delivery process, enable laboratory scientists to accurately detect disease and advance researchers’ capabilities to develop the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics. BD has a presence in virtually every country and partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues. BD helps customers enhance outcomes, lower costs, increase efficiencies, improve safety and expand access to health care

Gold sponsor

Cepheid

Cepheid is a leading molecular diagnostics company that is dedicated to improving healthcare by developing, manufacturing, and marketing accurate yet easy-to-use molecular systems and tests. By automating highly complex and time-consuming manual procedures, the company’s solutions deliver a better way for institutions of any size to perform sophisticated genetic testing for organisms and genetic-based diseases. Through its strong molecular biology capabilities, the company is focusing on those applications where accurate, rapid, and actionable test results are needed most, in fields such as critical and healthcare-associated infections, sexual health, genetic diseases, virology and cancer.

Silver sponsor

Copan

Copan is dedicated to developing and providing high quality and cutting-edge biological sample collection products for infectious diseases, human genomics, environmental and forensic applications, along with automated workflow solutions. Decades of experience and leadership in the pre-analytics field resulted in the development of numerous solutions tailored to fit any need: our patented products FLOQSwabs®, eSwab® and LBM® already revolutionized the collection and transport processes and our modular lab automation systems, WASP® and WASPLab®, eased healthcare professionals workflow. Today Copan is still eager to continue this innovation, providing quality products, customized services and prime solutions to improve the health and wellness of patients.