Bio-Rad Laboratories has bagged three awards, which were instituted by the international life sciences magazine The Scientist, in the product categories of image analysis systems, instrumentation for protein analysis and protein separation products.

The awards are recognition of the 'best-in-class' companies in the life sciences segment. These awards are given away to top life science suppliers for their outstanding and unparalleled performance. 'The Scientist' instituted the awards in association with The Life Science Executive Exchange and The Science Advisory Board.

Over 3,000 scientists worldwide were independently surveyed by leading market research firm BioInformatics, LLC. The participating scientists cast their votes for the companies that have made the greatest contributions to life science technology in the past year. The awards recognize those suppliers voted 'best-in-class' in each of the 14 product categories, and six communications and support categories. Although more than 500 individual companies were nominated, only 28 achieved the status of finalist and from this group 11 were named winners.

According to Richard Gallagher, Editor and Publisher, The Scientist, the scientists invited to nominate suppliers in each product category were drawn from the readership of The Scientist magazine and The Science Advisory Board, the world's largest online panel of scientific consumers.

BioInformatics, LLC ensured that the responses received accurately reflected the demographics of the overall market in terms of geographic region and segmentation. The results were analysed not only by the frequency with which a company was nominated, but also in terms of a numerical score derived from the satisfaction and loyalty questions. The combined value was then used to select the 28 finalists honoured by this year's Life Science Industry Awards.