By Melanie Ellyard
As Chief Operating Officer at the Aptamer Group it was my decision attend ELRIG Drug Discovery 2013 and apply for a place in the Innovation Zone. We thoroughly enjoyed being part of the conference and especially being in the Innovation Zone. We made lots of excellent contacts and had enormous interest in our technology and service offerings so it made good business sense too. So much so we are coming back this year.
Our products, aptamers, are highly applicable to so many different aspects of drug discovery, from target identification through assay development to biomarker discovery and companion diagnostics… and even as novel therapeutics themselves. This broad application means that conferences like the ELRIG Drug Discovery series, which gives delegates free access to eight sessions of the highest quality presentations covering the hottest topics in Drug Discovery, are ideal events for us to engage a highly educated and passionate audience. The delegates here are a genuine cross section of the drug discovery community with CEO’s and VP’s rubbing shoulders with the scientists who design and run the assays. It’s hard to conceive of a better place for a thriving new company, like ours, with high quality products to be.
The Innovation Zone in particular is where you will find the newest and most novel technologies and tools relevant to drug discovery. ELRIG provides a great platform for selected companies like the Aptamer Group to showcase some of the most novel technologies and applications and we are very grateful for their support.
An added bonus for us is also the opportunity to engage other exhibitors in business to business discussions usually about embedding our products as components in their own platforms. This is a great way for us to do business and we have a lot to offer by providing the best possible reagents for assay development, protein purification and bioprocessing, drug target identification, drug delivery and more. There are companies offering technologies in all these areas present at the ELRIG flagship event so it is easy to find common ground.
The Aptamer Group is proud to be part of ELRIG Drug Discovery 2014 and we look forward to meeting you there. Please come by our booth IZ12 in the Innovation Zone to learn more. We look forward to talking with you at this must attend event!