Millipore India has invested Rs 25 lakh for a lab on wheels project. The mobile lab is an initiative of Millipore India, Eppendorf and Micro Devices Metrohm. The state-of-the-art lab on wheels and is expected to visit college campuses where biotech, pharma and other science students across the country can have a real life experience on the laboratory practices.

The key objective of the lab is to showcase and demonstrate to students the latest lab equipment for applications like PCR, Ion analysis, membrane filtration , protein research, chromatography etc'. Through this institutions and students will not only get to see the latest sophisticated equipment but also get practical insights, ask questions, understand concepts.

Very often students just get to see pictures or diagrams of this equipment in text books. Besides, the lab will bridge the gap between well-to-do equipped educational institutions and those with no funds for labs.

The students of the latter type of colleges, specially those located in rural areas will now get to see the equipment.

The lab was inaugurated by Dr Goverdhan Mehta, former Director, Indian Institute of Science who commended the three companies for coming together with this initiative. It is for the first time that 3 major companies have come together for students


Appreciating the partnership of Eppendorf India and Micro Devices Metrohm for this great cause, Sudhir Kant, President, Millipore India stated that it is not merely an investment in the future of our students, over time but it would prove to be a potential business investment as well for our products as awareness levels increase in tomorrow's scientists''

Among the equipment on display and being demonstrated in the mobile lab is the Direct Q 3, an international gold award winning pure and ultrapure water purification system designed specially for biotech/pharma/engineering colleges. Other life science products from Millipore include filtration units, general lab filtration devices, Millex disposable syringe filters, centrifugals used in protein research.

Metrohm has on display the latest technologies and products for Ion analysis, while Eppendotf has PCR equipment, equipment for cell manipulation , DNA amplification, pipettes, centrifuges etc.